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Continue reading →: InventoryAfter Michael and Linda depart, Catherine faces a deceptively simple prompt: catalogue the year’s positive events. The list proves ungrand – Thursdays at the museum, watercolour fumbling, dinner invitations – but reveals something riskier than achievement: evidence she’s learning to inhabit her life rather than merely curate it.
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Zinaida Yermolyeva: Weaponising Mould, Defying Death
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Continue reading →: Zinaida Yermolyeva: Weaponising Mould, Defying DeathDiscover the Soviet microbiologist who weaponised mould under German bombardment, drank cholera to test vaccines, and saved the Red Army in 1943 – years before the West. A story of wartime pragmatism, Cold War erasure, and the woman history forgot.
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Continue reading →: A Matter of JudgmentThey say I overstepped. That I put the ship at risk. But you’ll see, when you hear my account, that sometimes the most dangerous choice is playing it safe. I know these waters better than their machines ever will.
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Continue reading →: AlmostTwo souls recognise each other in the wrong season – one still unravelling, one already leaving. A lyrical exploration of almost-love, where connection collides with circumstance, and the most profound question isn’t if, but when.
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Continue reading →: DomesticatedHarbour seals and caged brothers on the morning harbour walk. Linda moves through Catherine’s kitchen as if it’s always been shared. Wild foxes cross boundaries without asking permission. A text about deer arrives. Catherine learns domestication isn’t only for animals.
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Alice Perry: The Engineer Who Built Roads and Left in Poetry – Ireland’s Only Woman County Surveyor
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Continue reading →: Alice Perry: The Engineer Who Built Roads and Left in Poetry – Ireland’s Only Woman County SurveyorA woman who calculated bridge loads and inspected factories speaks candidly about the doors that opened, then closed. From Galway’s county surveyor to Boston’s Christian Science poet, Alice Perry reveals how precision persists across worlds, and why institutions, not individuals, truly leak talent.
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Observations Upon the Inferior Orders: A Natural Study
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Continue reading →: Observations Upon the Inferior Orders: A Natural StudyYou believe yourself safe amongst honest country folk. But what if the gentleman at your hearth possesses a keener understanding of human nature than you can fathom? Some predators do not announce themselves. Observations upon the inferior orders begin.
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Continue reading →: Warning LabelWhat if your peculiarities came with proper instructions? A meditation on the obsessions we carry – the need to organise, to remember every slight, to never let questions rest. Some quirks don’t need fixing; they need acknowledgement, patience, and perhaps their own warning label.
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Continue reading →: The Geography of ReturningAs Catherine hosts Michael and Linda for the weekend, muffled voices drift through the guest room wall. With a trip to Quebec looming, she makes a discovery: home isn’t where you arrive perfect, but where you are allowed to keep arriving, imperfectly.
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Florence Violet McKenzie: Australia’s First Female Electrical Engineer and the Architect of the WRANS
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Continue reading →: Florence Violet McKenzie: Australia’s First Female Electrical Engineer and the Architect of the WRANSMrs Mac built the infrastructure that forced Australia’s Navy to accept women – and trained 12,000 servicemen in Morse code from a woolshed on Clarence Street. Discover how one electrical engineer created the WRANS, corresponded with Einstein, and proved women could be better than men.
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