Scarcely into her third career in thirty years and on the wrong side of forty-five-years old, she decided it was about time that she took some time out for herself. And so after much scrutinizing o...ver maisScarcely into her third career in thirty years and on the wrong side of forty-five-years old, she decided it was about time that she took some time out for herself. And so after much scrutinizing of her life as it was, her bank account and the international vacancy pages of The Times Educational Supplement, she eventually sold the car (it had a blown head-gasket anyway); signed the job contract; wrote her last will and testament, stocked up her daughter's grocery cupboards and took off for the Middle East.ver menos