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.

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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??

Heritage and Racing Wheels... the best mix ever!!

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#Murihiku #Peaceful #Waiau
What more could you ask for??!! Aroha this place. Loving life.

An old poem for the end of the night #NZTwits #PōMārie

The Tides Run Up The Wairau

The tides run up the Wairau
That fights against their flow.
My heart and it together
Are running salt and snow.

For though I cannot love you,
Yet, heavy, deep, and far,
Your tide of love comes swining,
Too swift for me to bar.

Some though of you must linger,
A salt of pain in me
For oh what running river
Can stand against the sea?

Eileen Duggan

#PōMārie #NZTwits Well, it was a good day at mahi (work). Got the 150th Commemoration Historical Calendar nearly done - there was a lot of peripheral mahi ensuring all the Copyrights were correct, ID'ing sites on the town map and also adding modern day photos to the pages.

Also managed to get the whole front path weeds burned to bits with a combination of boiling water and Rā streaming down, plus got some plant seeds in punnets at last and even some weeding done, so feeling very achieved here!

Good night, #PōMārie from #Ōtepoti 😍