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Tag Archives: TPR
The secret bigamist (Rousse)
Until I considered what might happen if I died before TPR, I thought it perfectly acceptable to have secretly married my 35 year old ‘boyfriend’. In practice we hardly ever saw each another, and I wondered if he actually remembered … Continue reading
The shame of the husband who shames his wife in public (Rousse)
TPR had fallen into the habit of shaming me in public. For example, he made lewd remarks about his choice of life-partner to our widowed bed and breakfast host. Then I caught him laying bets on the outcome of Wimbledon … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, bed and breakfast, bet, colleague, finances, habit, headmistress, home, lewd, public, remark, shame, study, TPR, trouble, widow, Wimbledon
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Middle-aged errant husband enjoys ‘space’ in the arms of a 21 year old student (Rousse)
TPR announced that he needed some ‘space’ so he moved out of our marital home and into a shared flat in Bruntsfield with a bunch of undergrads and some young professionals (one of whom had just been offered a lectureship … Continue reading
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Tagged 21, arms, beg, Bruntsfield, Cambridge, cycling, discovery, enjoy, errant, heartbroken, holiday, home, husband, Isabel Peters, lectureship, marital, middle-age, professionals, sleep, Sonya, space, STD, student, TPR, undergrads, university, young
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A busy morning with Uncle J (Rousse)
My Uncle J sat on the sofa and enthused about his new business idea: to sell custom-made T-shirts to the British middle classes. I told him that this venture was doomed to failure. I was British and middle class, and … Continue reading
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Tagged British, business, busy, chicken, clothing, furniture, great-grandmother, idea, inherit, kitchen, knowledge, middle class, morning, sofa, steak, T-shirt, tomato, TPR, uncle, University Challenge, venture
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Suicide program (Rousse)
TPR was in bits. He told me over the phone that the program no longer worked and – because of this – his colleague had committed suicide.
‘Intelligence calipers’ measure IQs of aspiring spooks (Rousse)
The job advert had read ‘civil servant’ but I knew that the panel members opposite me were assessing my suitability for a role that included subterfuge, espionage, honeypots, and data decryption. I played along answering the standard interview questions with … Continue reading
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Tagged advert, artefact, caliper, candidate, chair, civil servant, clue, data decryption, degree, espionage, floor, history, honeypots, inquiry, intelligence, interview, job, murder, panel, questions, role, room, school, sinus, spook, subterfuge, TPR, university, wall
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