I once came home and took 20 minutes to notice we had new curtains, even though I was standing in front of the window.

A friend once came home with a black eye after being hit with a football on the sidelines at her son’s football match – and her husband didn’t notice a thing.

Not all people notice things they probably should.

But a £124,550 campervan, an £80,000 luxury car, £2,600 pepper grinders, a £1,000 hair dryer and a £3,200 coffee machine would surely have even the least observant of spouses asking: “What the…?”

Nicola Sturgeon has insisted she is the victim of her husband Peter Murrell’s embezzling of £400,000 from the SNP.

Had last week taken place before the Holyrood election, it could’ve been devastating for the party.

Instead, Murrell’s preliminary court hearing was delayed from February to May 25, 18 days after the country went to vote, and the SNP secured a narrow victory under John Swinney.

So far, so unbelievable.

‘I felt sympathy for Nicola Sturgeon’

Yet for every incredulous fact, Nicola has an answer.

The giant luxury camper van was parked in her mother-in-law’s driveway in Fife.

But Nicola........

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