Monday morning. Yes, the start of the week. Let's be grateful this only comes around once every seven days.

I actually got to bed at a decent time last night, and slept the night through. That's an improvement. However, I woke up this morning with a splitting headache, so I'm not sure the night was a complete success.

Right. To get the week off to a giggly start, here's an excerpt from Bridget Jones's interview with Colin Firth, which appears in the book Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding. (As you may already know, Bridget is obsessed with Colin Firth's portrayal of Mr. Darcy, and somehow gets the opportunity to interview him for a newspaper. She's a little distracted throughout the whole thing. But who wouldn't be?)

BJ Oh. Do you think Mr Darcy would have slept with Elizabeth Bennet before the wedding?
CF Yes, I do think he might have.
BJ Do you?
CF Yes. I think it's entirely possible. Yes.
BJ (BREATHLESSLY) Really?
CF I think it's possible, yes.
BJ How would it be possible?
CF Don't know if Jane Austen would agree with me on this, but...
BJ We can't know because she's dead.
CF NO, we can't... but I think Andrew Davies's Mr Darcy would have done.
BJ Why do you think that, though? Why? Why?
CF Because I think it was very important to Andrew Davies that Mr Darcy had the most enormous sex drive.
BJ (GASPS) And, um... I think that came across, really, really well with the acting. I really think it did.
CF Thank you. At one point, Andrew even wrote as a stage direction: "Imagine that Darcy has an erection".
(V LARGE CRASHING NOISE)
BJ Which bit was that?
CF It's when she's been walking across the country and bumps into him in the grounds in the early stages.
BJ The bit where she's all muddy?
CF ... and dishevelled
BJ ... and sweaty?
CF Exactly.
BJ Was that a difficult bit to act?
CF You mean the erection?
BJ (AWED WHISPER) Yes.
CF UM, well, Andrew also wrote that I don't propose that we should focus on it, and, therefore, no acting required in that department at least.
BJ Mmmmm. (LONG PAUSE)
CF Yes. (MORE PAUSE)
BJ Mmm.
CF Is that it, then?
BJ No. What was it like with your friends when you started being Mr Darcy?
CF There were a lot of jokes about it: growling, "Mr Darcy" over breakfast and so on. There was a brief period when they had to work quite hard to hide their knowledge of who I really was and...
BJ Hide it from who?
CF Well, from anyone who suspected that perhaps I was like Mr Darcy.
BJ But do you think you're not like Mr Darcy?
CF I do think I'm not like Mr Darcy, yes.
BJ I think you're exactly like Mr Darcy.
CF In what way?
BJ You talk the same way as him.
CF Oh do I?
BJ You look exactly like him, and I, oh, oh...
PROTRACTED CRASHING NOISES FOLLOWED BY SOUNDS OF STRUGGLE