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Debbie Leigh: First among sequels
LIKE half the women in the country, I know exactly what I'm doing this Friday night and I'm counting down the minutes.
There's a vague possibility you don't have a clue what I'm on about, perhaps if you're a heterosexual male, or you've been detoxing in a cave in outer Mongolia for the past six months.
But as everyone else will know, the moment girls and gay men across the globe have been awaiting for two years is almost here.
The Sex and the City sequel comes out in just three days, although diehard fans – the sort that scour the internet to buy garments worn on the show "that still smell like SJP" – will of course be at the glam-tastic premiere in London on Thursday.
The rest of us have booked a night off from our fellas on Friday to be with the girlfriends we share our innermost secrets with and share the style and sass extravaganza of SATC2 – accompanied by the de rigueur Cosmos cocktails.
Yep, the UK has gone SATC crazy again.
And for all the blokes yawning, "Oh God, how boring and unoriginal wittering on about Sex and the City, SJP isn't even good-looking" – you can just shush.
It's not exactly ground-breaking being a chap with no interest in the fab four's sexcapades either, so put a sock in it and continue daydreaming about the testosterone trip you call the World Cup.
Thankfully it's going to be a summer of fun for everyone – boys and girls – whether your pulse races at the thought of Christian Louboutins or Cristiano Ronaldo – or both.
Less than two weeks after SATC comes out, when the girls' outfits will still be burned on our retinas, Twilight novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner comes out.
For us Twihards this is a treat sure to get our juices flowing in anticipation of the third movie in the Twilight series, Eclipse, out July 9.
That's another night girls across the UK will be fighting for a cinema seat, for the next installment of vampire Edward and mortal Bella's love affair, which is likely to prompt hysteria among R-Patz worshippers unable to separate the actor from the character.
Apparently, hardcore fans (who can't imagine loving a human boy ever again because they want someone whose skin sparkles like diamonds) actually take their books along to see how closely the film follows the novel.
Still, before I'm exposed to all that vampire madness, and less than five weeks away now, I will be packing up my tent and praying for sunshine for the biggest music festival of the summer.
Yep, forget the blinged-up glamour of SATC, it will be wellies and bed-heads at dawn as I try my damnedest to work that infamous Kate Moss festival chic at Glastonbury.
Then around four weeks later, when (fingers crossed) I will still be glowing golden brown after a Glasto heat wave rather than still trying to get the mud out of my clothes, it's time for the UK's biggest free pop party – in Leeds.
Yes, I too thought I was around 20 years too old to have any interest in Party in the Park, but this year (according to a very reliable source) the line-up sounds so incredible I'm going – I don't care if I am the oldest raver there.
So let's hope this sun-drenched weekend was just a taste of what might actually become the barbecue summer we were promised last year.
Sitting in the garden with my feet up, reading Grazia and eating an ice cream, with the cats lying behind me in the shade, I could almost have started purring too.
Because when the sun is shining, and your diary is as crammed with super-hot events as Carrie Bradshaw's, then life really is – as the SATC girls might say, "fabulous, sweetie".
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Wednesday 23 May 2012
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