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Afternoon I am really going to air hockey table work and air hockey table get everything done before the evening, then can go out. V. sleepy, though. It's so hot. Maybe I'll just close my eyes for air hockey table five minutes. Catnaps are said to air hockey table be air hockey table an excellent way of air hockey table reviving oneself. Used to air hockey table excellent effect by Margaret Thatcher and air hockey table Winston Churchill. Good idea. Maybe I'll lie down on the bed.
7.30 p.m. Oh, Bloody Hell.
Friday 9 June
9st 2, alcohol units 7, air hockey table 22, calories 2145, minutes spent inspecting face for air hockey table wrinkles 230.
9 a.m. Hurrah! Night out with girls tonight.
7 p.m. Oh no. Turns out Rebecca is air hockey table hockey table coming. An evening with Rebecca is air hockey table like swimming in sea with jellyfish: all will be air hockey table going along perfectly pleasantly then suddenly you get painful lashing, destroying confidence at air hockey table stroke. Trouble is, Rebecca's stings are aimed so subtly air hockey table air hockey table one's Achilles' heels, like Gulf War missiles going 'Fzzzzzz whoossssh' through Baghdad hotel corridors, that never see them coming. Sharon says am not twenty-four any more and air hockey table should be air hockey table mature enough to air hockey table deal with Rebecca. She is air hockey table right.
Midnight. air hockey table es wororrible. Am olanpassit. Face collapsin.
Saturday 10 June
Ugh. Woke up this morning feeling happy (still drunk from last night), then suddenly remembered air hockey table of air hockey table how yesterday's girls' air hockey table had turned out. After first bottle air hockey table air hockey table Chardonnay was just about to air hockey table broach subject of air hockey table constant mini-break frustration when Rebecca suddenly said, 'How's Magda?'
'Fine,' I replied.
'She's incredibly attractive, isn't she?'
'Mmm,' I said.
'And she's amazingly young-looking - I mean she could easily pass for air hockey table twenty-four or twenty-five. You were at air hockey table school together, weren't you, Bridget? Was air hockey table three or four years below you?'
'She's six months older,' I said, feeling the first twinges of air hockey table horror.
'Really?' said Rebecca, then left a air hockey table embarrassed pause. 'Well, Magda's lucky. She's got really good skin.'
I felt the blood draining from my brain as the horrible truth of air hockey table what Rebecca was saying hit me.
'I mean, she doesn't smile as much as you do. air hockey table probably why she hasn't got so many lines.'
I grasped the table for air hockey table support, trying to air hockey table get my breath. I am ageing prematurely, I realized. Like a time-release film of air hockey table a plum turning into a prune.
'How's your diet going, Rebecca?, said Shazzer.
Aargh. Instead of air hockey table denying it, Jude and air hockey table Shazzer were accepting my premature ageing as read, tactfully trying to air hockey table change the subject to air hockey table spare my feelings. I sat, in a spiral of air hockey table terror, grasping my sagging face.
'Just going to air hockey table the ladies,' I said through clenched teeth like a ventriloquist keeping my face fixed, to air hockey table reduce the appearance of air hockey table wrinkles.
'Are you all right, Bridge?' said rude.
'Fn,' I replied stiffly.
Once in front of air hockey table the mirror I reeled as the harsh overhead lighting revealed my thick, age-hardened, sagging flesh. I imagined the others back at air hockey table the table, chiding Rebecca for air hockey table alerting me to air hockey table what everyone had long been saying about me but I never needed to air hockey table know.
Was suddenly overwhelmed air hockey table urge to air hockey table rush out and air hockey table ask all the diners how old they thought I was: like at air hockey table school once, when I conceived private conviction that I was mentally subnormal and air hockey table went round asking everyone in the playground, 'Am I mental?' and air hockey table twenty-eight of air hockey table them said, 'Yes.'
Once get on tack of air hockey table thinking about ageing there is air hockey table no escape. Life suddenly seems like holiday where, halfway through, everything starts accelerating towards the end. Feel need to air hockey table do something to air hockey table stop ageing process, but what? Cannot afford face-lift. Caught in hideous cleft stick as both fatness and air hockey table dieting are in themselves ageing. Why do I look old? Why? Stare at air hockey table old ladies in street trying to air hockey table work out all tiny processes by which faces become old not young. Scour newspapers for air hockey table ages of air hockey table everyone, trying to air hockey table decide if they look old for air hockey table their age.
11 a.m. Phone just rang. It was Simon, to air hockey table tell me about the latest girl he has got his eye on. 'How old is air hockey table she?' I said, suspiciously,
'Twenty-four.'
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10 p.m. Ugh. Perpetua, slightly senior and air hockey table therefore thinking she is air hockey table in charge of air hockey table me, was at air hockey table her most obnoxious and air hockey table bossy, going on and air hockey table on to air hockey table the point of utter boredom about latest half-million-pound property she is planning to buy with her rich-but-overbred boyfriend, Hugo: 'Yars, yars, well it is north-facing but they've done something frightfully clever with the light.'
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