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Ngā mihi o te tau hou. Happy New Year! I'm off my "holiday" from SM.

Well, we had a great break, I got some of the funding for both my volunteer community projects - the new #CentralAndWesternArchive computer arrived and is set up and now the new scanner has come in the post and is waiting to be picked up Monday, so lots of excitement here, many thanks to the Tūātapere TeWaeWae Community Board for their funding our new equipment.

#PōMārie #NZTwits #Aotearoa #Aotearoadons #NZRuralLife

What a week! Got the fundraising promotions calendar's done though, thank goodness and huge kia ora to #NZTwits and #Aotearoadons who helped with suggestions. Managed to get the wrong size card cut down & print, then re-order more correct size card from Gordon Harris, although more expensive.

If anyone would like to purchase to help support our 150th and the early history project book, please let me know. $20 each plus $6.50 cost of postage within NZ. For overseas I need to do a quote first.

So #NZTwits #Aotearoadons, got my RCI (Royal Commission of Inquiry) for state care & faith abuse hearing Monday... been shittest week in a long time, the very week I needed to be calm n collected. So if any of y'all are into positive thoughts etc, please send em my way as whisky will only do so much. I know its not the answer, but its a good start tonight. List of notes complete, emotions wrecked, my makau's mates in the garage with him as I can't deal RN, so its me & the ngeru (cats) & Masto...

#PōMārie #NZTwits #NeedHELP #Aotearoadons #LookingForCard

So, I'd been put in charge of making the Fundraising Calendars for our 150th Celebrations at Ōtautau, to be sold at the town street party 9th December, but there was no A3 card in any of the usual stores, so we attempted an online purchase of some through TradeMe, only to find the A3 card was NOT A3, but 320x450, so too big for printer... They need printing before next Friday!! Ideas where to buy Cardstock from urgently in Aotearoa NZ??

#AtaMārie #NZTwits #Aotearoadons & others #CW #NaughtyCat #Ngeru
It is makariri (cold), all the curtains are closed and Panda 🐼 Cat🐈 is NOT amused. She is extremely territorial so can't see out to protect her domain. She KNOWS she is not allowed in curtains to destroy the baby plantlings, and yet... The snap of her doing "oh shit you've seen me, now what do I do" is most hilarious!

As long as she stays away from the plants I've now compromised to letting her lie beside them #SheRules #QueenCat

#AtaMārie #NZTwits #Aotearoadons & others #CW #NaughtyCat #Ngeru
It is makariri (cold), all the curtains are closed and Panda 🐼 Cat🐈 is NOT amused. She is extremely territorial so can't see out to protect her domain. She KNOWS she is not allowed in curtains to destroy the baby plantlings, and yet... The snap of her doing "oh shit you've seen me, now what do I do" is most hilarious!

As long as she stays away from the plants I've now compromised to letting her lie beside them #SheRules #QueenCat

#AtaMārie #NZTwits #Aotearoadons & others #CW #NaughtyCat #Ngeru
It is makariri (cold), all the curtains are closed and Panda 🐼 Cat🐈 is NOT amused. She is extremely territorial so can't see out to protect her domain. She KNOWS she is not allowed in curtains to destroy the baby plantlings, and yet... The snap of her doing "oh shit you've seen me, now what do I do" is most hilarious!

As long as she stays away from the plants I've now compromised to letting her lie beside them #SheRules #QueenCat

#AtaMārie #NZTwits #Aotearoadons & others #CW #NaughtyCat #Ngeru
It is makariri (cold), all the curtains are closed and Panda 🐼 Cat🐈 is NOT amused. She is extremely territorial so can't see out to protect her domain. She KNOWS she is not allowed in curtains to destroy the baby plantlings, and yet... The snap of her doing "oh shit you've seen me, now what do I do" is most hilarious!

As long as she stays away from the plants I've now compromised to letting her lie beside them #SheRules #QueenCat

#AtaMārie #NZTwits #Aotearoadons & others...Today is pouring rain, with predicted thunder & lightening on the way. Panda cat just came inside screaming for a dry down as she is dripping wet... Looks like a day to be in moenga (bed) with my ngeru (cats) but alas .. mahi must be done, many deadlines looming. So, will either have to do something I try to always avoid (put wee gene on for some power) or find something else to do on this dark dismal day BRRR!!
#Makariri (cold) #OffGrid #LivingLife

#AtaMārie #NZTwits #Aotearoadons and others... if you are in our beautiful country and like the idea of local grown, fresh, often organic or at least spray free food that is cheap and supporting others to live in your community, check out the #OpenFoodNetwork on the link. Open ones right now are Whenuapai, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Kōpūtai Port Chalmers, Aparima Riverton (which includes delivery to most of Western Murihiku Southland) and Tūātapere, some even post out : https://openfoodnetwork.org.nz/shops#/

#AtaMārie #NZTwits #Aotearoadons & others
#CW #Health #Covid
The breaking of things continues at our whare, now it's my glasses! 😭 But I'm happy to report the optometrist's we are using are making sure they are masked. Kia ora SpecSavers for helping keep us safe from Covid. I'm a bit worried about my makau having to go to a hospital appt tho. I know it's masks in all health settings but it's such a risky place to have to go right now, tests needed or not. Let's hope our bad luck doesnt continue

Something that #NZHistory #NZ #Aotearoa #Aotearoadons including myself find hard to fathom: The 1871 England Census index, which contains a list of the streets listed in Worcestershire in the census, giving the town, street name, and parish they are listed in...JUST for the Worcestershire borough is 1213 pages long!! There were not even that many streets in the entirety of Te Wai Pounamu (the whole of the South Island) then, let alone in one province of it! #EarlySettlerHistory
#PioneerFamilies

#TePapa #Museums #NZTwits #Aotearoadons #Observations
"We need your help this summer! Your observations could help unravelling a 250-year-old mystery" https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2022/11/21/we-need-your-help-this-summer-your-observations-could-help-unravelling-a-250-year-old-mystery/

#CW #Colonialism Not sure this is the right place to ask, but I do hope I get some consideration for why I am asking... had someone turn up here today telling me I can't write my local history without reading "Before the Māori", some (I believe) apparent bullsh!t about govt and #GLAM coverups...sounds like a right conspiracy theory nutwingjob writer, but I have to ask... has any scholarly rebuttal been put out about this so called "professional" work? #NZTwits #Aotearoadons #Histadon #NZHistory

#CW #Colonialism Not sure this is the right place to ask, but I do hope I get some consideration for why I am asking... had someone turn up here today telling me I can't write my local history without reading "Before the Māori", some (I believe) apparent bullsh!t about govt and #GLAM coverups...sounds like a right conspiracy theory nutwingjob writer, but I have to ask... has any scholarly rebuttal been put out about this so called "professional" work? #NZTwits #Aotearoadons #Histadon #NZHistory

#CW #Colonialism Not sure this is the right place to ask, but I do hope I get some consideration for why I am asking... had someone turn up here today telling me I can't write my local history without reading "Before the Māori", some (I believe) apparent bullsh!t about govt and #GLAM coverups...sounds like a right conspiracy theory nutwingjob writer, but I have to ask... has any scholarly rebuttal been put out about this so called "professional" work? #NZTwits #Aotearoadons #Histadon #NZHistory

#CW #Colonialism Not sure this is the right place to ask, but I do hope I get some consideration for why I am asking... had someone turn up here today telling me I can't write my local history without reading "Before the Māori", some (I believe) apparent bullsh!t about govt and #GLAM coverups...sounds like a right conspiracy theory nutwingjob writer, but I have to ask... has any scholarly rebuttal been put out about this so called "professional" work? #NZTwits #Aotearoadons #Histadon #NZHistory

#PōMārie #NZTwits #Aotearoadons Well we finally got the new to us old 2nd hand bike going after it broke down on picking it up... Now we seem to have lost the front guard on the road! So going back to look for it. Sigh. Great riding day tho & good fuel economy, cheap freedom traveling #Murihiku #motorbike #BMW #AfternoonRiding

@WhaeaVee Mōrena, ka rawe to find you here too at last... Not sure what took me so long to do so! I think I need to search out more of my old #NZTwits & #Aotearoadons again 😂

@KiffinEileen Mōrena e hoa, so happy to see you here!! More #NZTwits #Aotearoadons

#AtaMārie #NZTwits and #Aotearoadons #CW #NZPol #AotearoaPol Tried to explain earlier in the week to e hoa who is sadly a nats supporting, anti climate change, Groundswell believing led astray losty, how it's actually "No climate, no farms" & if a govt or PM really didn't care about agriculture, they'd do nothing & let land farmers ruin the whole place. A responsible, caring leader says, we don't want to see this happen, let's make changes while it's still possible they might make a difference

#AtaMārie #NZTwits
#Aotearoadons
The utter heartrendering awe and excitement of a new (old) book arriving in the mail for the new archive library... you carefully unpackage, hold it in your hands savouring it, then finally you open the pages and there are other archives and old records folded up within it!! This made my day.

#Books #Histodon #Fiordland #TeWhakatakaKārehuATamatea
#Aotearoa #SouthPacific #Libraries #Archives #Museums
#GLAM #History #Heritage #Explorers #NewZealand #Manapōuri

@sarabeee Good to see a new hashtag. But if people are already on a .nz instance they shouldn't need to search #NZTwits as there are only NZ #Aotearoa people on their local server... For myself I chose to be on a worldwide instance so I can more easily meet those from across the globe, so rely on the #NZTwits and #Aoteaora and now new #Aotearoadons tag

@sarabeee Good to see a new hashtag. But if people are already on a .nz instance they shouldn't need to search #NZTwits as there are only NZ #Aotearoa people on their local server... For myself I chose to be on a worldwide instance so I can more easily meet those from across the globe, so rely on the #NZTwits and #Aoteaora and now new #Aotearoadons tag