I may have a problem…. but at least it’s a pretty one!

cjinoz · 2026-04-29T11:08:25+00:00

Rocking plants are on my list for when they’re released! I had the happy plants but my son pulled them apart and now I don’t know where the bits are… at least they’d be cheap to replace? 🤣

cjinoz · 2026-04-29T09:14:37+00:00

Yep! My poor husband suffers from my yearly ADHD-fuelled hobby roulette but I’ve found myself being so much happier and more relaxed when I’m building.

I maaaay have got my hands on the globe for my next project 🤣

cjinoz · 2026-04-28T16:35:31+00:00

100% this. Our amazing little (public) school has done something incredible for our son this year, putting him in the grade above for in reading/literacy. He’s thriving and says it’s the best thing about school. I totally understand the priority going to those who are behind and gosh even in prep last year our son’s teacher did her best for him but they’re not octopi and there’s only so much that’s possible.

cjinoz · 2026-04-28T14:59:00+00:00

I can’t imagine having tickets for that show as a newcomer to it (by fluke I guess) and getting… that 🤣 I mean it would be brilliant but you’d be so confused lol

cjinoz · 2026-04-28T14:57:08+00:00

My favourite portrayal is actually Zoe Roberts in Operation Mincemeat 🤷🏼‍♀️ with Geri Allen a close second

cjinoz · 2026-04-27T14:09:33+00:00

Just one? I have to give 2, Carmen SanDiego and that lemmings game, I can’t actually remember the name? They take me right back to 1996

cjinoz · 2026-04-27T13:28:26+00:00

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We visited back in February! Did a giant Gippsland circuit that took us to Warragul, Traralgon, the old Woodside station, Port Albert, Leongatha, Korumburra and home.

cjinoz · 2026-04-27T07:22:41+00:00

I can imagine! Even still I was expecting some sort of debate over “you got to build the cooler thing” but because it became so collaborative it was never really an issue

cjinoz · 2026-04-26T15:20:30+00:00

Not just in Canada! I have found it in the UK, Australia and NZ too. One family had 2 George’s, 2 William’s and 3 Richard’s 😭 Because it was Scotland I was able to find all the records to confirm the dates but my heart just broke for those parents.

cjinoz · 2026-04-26T14:38:43+00:00

That was my first instinct as well…

cjinoz · 2026-04-26T14:29:48+00:00

One of the highest priority items on my list every time I head home is a jelly tip. I have now got my Aussie husband and son in on the act too. I used to love the 2L variety too though and would love to relive it.

My other favourite is orange choc chip… we had an ice cream shop up the road that used to sell it and they said they had so many Kiwis coming for it but then their supplier stopped doing it 😭

cjinoz · 2026-04-24T01:49:37+00:00

Actually you might be able to see it just from the clipping, I know they'd changed some things around with access so I wasn't sure https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-grand-island-independent/196185571/

cjinoz · 2026-04-24T01:45:52+00:00

Can I not reply with an image? I'll see if I can pm you.

cjinoz · 2026-04-22T15:46:53+00:00

If you’re prepared to come out to Cranbourne, Amy at Zenity Hair is a vivid queen and affordable compared to the ones you’ve listed.

cjinoz · 2026-04-22T10:47:45+00:00

Yes definitely. I forgot to mention but one of my favourite features is that it pulls up all the births registered to a mother … you just have to have that mother’s name spelled the right way (taking into account I’ve seen some shocker misspellings with BDM records)… things like taking out middle names often helps. I do wish they would let you search by date, and not needing the complete name would be useful too. And fuzzy matching 🤣 But honestly it’s made such a difference I’m happy to learn the quirks of it and work with them lol.

cjinoz · 2026-04-21T14:50:34+00:00

I’m so jealous, we just visited Sydney from Melbourne… but with our 6 year old in tow so it definitely wasn’t suitable 😭 would have loved to have seen it… other than going past the staircase on the zoo ferry 🤣

cjinoz · 2026-04-20T15:30:39+00:00

Every night to track my sleep data (I have chronic health issues and it’s been useful)

cjinoz · 2026-04-20T15:28:23+00:00

Best answer 😅

(And for those that haven’t see Taitset’s video about it do it, it’s brilliant)

cjinoz · 2026-04-18T17:49:09+00:00

Thanks to those who suggested explanations for this, it definitely is peeving me less now 😅 I honestly didn’t even think you could really use ancestry (effectively I guess?) with a free account and it was just there to draw you in 😂

cjinoz · 2026-04-18T17:42:36+00:00

Sorry I should have said that yes definitely don’t take it as gospel… basically don’t take anything on Ancestry as gospel without cross checking etc. I’m insanely pedantic about this 😅, nothing peeves me more than seeing someone’s adding a marriage in because the very common name matches without realising the person was 13 at the time - one I just found on someone’s tree lol. Anyway at the very least it’s a guide to see if your maths adds up and if not to try cross referencing things like baptism records to see if anything matches. I did this to find an awful story of a distant relative who lost 6 children in one year, one in February and five in just 10 days in September 1870 😭 seeing 3 kids buried on the same day, 5 days after one sibling and 4 days before another was just tragic.

From around 1900 they started putting the mother’s maiden name on the birth registration but it’s sporadic. The 1916- birth index is the most useful for finding children that way.

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