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??

#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