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.

#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??

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

I’m stalking my friends from the bird app who I have found over here and searching their followers/following lists. Frustrated that I can’t see lists from other servers. Is there any way around this? #NZTwits #Aotearoadons #academicintegrity Feeling like a dinosaur.

@paw @Isa @jasonlv #Aotearoadons

@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

new hashtag to go with #NZTwits = #Aotearoadons