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Garry Sanders has added a photo to the pool:
Garry Sanders has added a photo to the pool:
This is the lounge room of Nutcote cottage set up to represent how it was when Australian children's author May Gibbs lived here in the 1930s.
The house was built in 1925.
Garry Sanders has added a photo to the pool:
Taken as the ferry was moving between North Sydney Ferry terminal and Neutral Bay on the F5 Neutral Bay service.
The Barrowdale is part of the First fleet class ferry and was built in 1985.
Ian & Marg has added a photo to the pool:
Slate Auto says its stripped-down electric pickup will start at $24,950 before fees, with the base model's estimated range increased from 150 to about 205 miles. The company has started taking preorders on Wednesday. "The aggressive pricing -- half the average cost of a new car in the United States -- puts Slate in position to capture a share of the lowest end of the new car market, which has few gas and fewer electric options these days," reports TechCrunch. From the report: The price reveal comes more than a year after Slate Auto emerged from stealth. Since then, the company has been steadily detailing the extremely basic, transforming EV, which starts as a two-seater pickup truck, but can be modified into a five-seater SUV. The SUV version will start at $29,950, Slate said Wednesday. Slate has said the conversion can be done by professionals or by owners themselves. On Wednesday, it finally showed off some of the first of its "Slate University" how-to videos, which guide people through the steps for doing everything from the SUV conversion to adding headlight covers.
Everything else about the truck is bare, though it's customizable. It has hand-crank windows, lacks an infotainment system, and all orders start with the same gray composite material, with no paint options, as Slate plans to let buyers order customizable wraps for the vehicle. That likely helps cut out a major cost center, as factory paint shops can run in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The company did not offer more details about the buying process. Slate has said it "won't have traditional dealerships," and plans to sell directly to customers, similar to other EV companies like Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid Motors.
Everything else about the truck is bare, though it's customizable. It has hand-crank windows, lacks an infotainment system, and all orders start with the same gray composite material, with no paint options, as Slate plans to let buyers order customizable wraps for the vehicle. That likely helps cut out a major cost center, as factory paint shops can run in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The company did not offer more details about the buying process. Slate has said it "won't have traditional dealerships," and plans to sell directly to customers, similar to other EV companies like Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid Motors.
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Lacy Baugher Milas (The Shipping Lane, 06/24/2026), "How 'The Other Bennet Sister' Became the Summer's Most Satisfying Romance": "A bookish wallflower ... Mary struggles to fit in ... The series speedruns through the major events of Austen's classic, briskly offering new perspectives." Fanfare. Relevant to ep. 4: Charades &c. by Jane Austen and Her Family (previously and previouslier). Also relevant: The Lake District, a region re-imagined in another Regency composition: Phantasmion by Austen fan Sara Coleridge ("the first otherworld fantasy" but inspired by her home and perhaps by her uncle's translations of stories that affected Don Quixote; structure; author's annotations and bio). Incidentally, Sarah Glosson identifies "The Beaux" (1842; parts 2, 3, 4, & 5) as early fanfiction inspired by Austen--among many writers name-checked in it by parlor game author Eliza Leslie.