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Harvesting and processing produce from the vegetable garden is always a busy time of the year, but reassuring to have a well-stocked freezer to rely on through the colder weather. This year there will be some wild blackberries too, cooked up with apples given by neighbours and friends.
Unexpected life challenges can upend the best laid plans and disrupt ordered routines. This was our experience recently. Not so much an adventure, but an unlooked-for and rather nasty gauntlet that needs to be navigated without a compass, or any clear idea of how to proceed.
Book review of a historical crime novel that has similarities to the murder of prostitutes in Victorian England by the infamous Jack the Ripper, but is also a social history of women in colonial Melbourne.