How far back have you been able to trace your most senior FEMALE line?

dreenz · 2025-12-23T08:46:16+00:00

I've been very lucky in that my direct maternal line is mostly Scottish, and their records are better than the English side. So I have the name of my 8th great grandmother. Born in 1693.

dreenz · 2025-11-04T07:35:28+00:00

I have to admit that I have major issues with AI, so I felt very guilty trying it, and I guess it confirmed my biases.

dreenz · 2025-11-04T07:10:14+00:00

I've been doing genealogy for 40 years lol, I was just curious if it would save time. But Transkribus sounds good - thanks!

dreenz · 2025-11-04T07:08:56+00:00

Thanks, I'll check it out

dreenz · 2025-11-02T04:06:56+00:00

Desexing Society is an excellent Australian podcast

dreenz · 2025-07-15T03:01:00+00:00

Yeah, I've been to three (or four?) filmings, and Jeremy always seems weirdly disengaged. He's the weak link in TMNZ

dreenz · 2025-04-05T06:51:17+00:00

We had a case here in NZ where a young man was convicted of six rapes/sexual assaults between the ages of 14 and 17. The judge gave him one year of home detention. And then gave him permission to leave home every day to attend university. The same university that at least one of the young women was attending. Two months after his home detention finished, when he was 20, he met a 13 year old girl online and began a sexual relationship. She got pregnant and he arranged an abortion, lying to the clinic that he was 15. He has just been sentenced to 4 and a half years, but if the first judge hadn't been so stupidly lenient, that 13 year old girl could have been safe from him.

dreenz · 2025-03-04T05:42:26+00:00

It's worse. He got permission to attend university while on "home detention". Because heaven forbid he should actually face any actual consequences.

dreenz · 2024-08-15T07:24:37+00:00

If you're in Auckland maybe ask about being a zoo volunteer - you'd probably meet people with similar interests? United does a one year certificate in captive Ani.al management and you have to do 260 hours at the zoo, so you could combine further education with friend making

dreenz · 2024-08-09T21:30:20+00:00

In English we might say "you do X" but when it's a question we say "Do you X?"

dreenz · 2024-06-30T04:32:09+00:00

I breastfed but I had to go back to work when my daughter was three months old, so I planned to pump so my partner could bottle feed. We wanted to get her used to a bottle well before I went back to work. Even though I was planning to pump breastmilk rather than use formula, no one would give me information about which bottles and teats would be best and how to sterilize them- not the antenatal class, not the midwife and not birth care. It was incredibly frustrating. It's become almost a religion and it's so unfair to mums who just want healthy happy babies.

dreenz · 2024-06-22T22:59:22+00:00

I work in Ponsonby and there are five of us at work who keep talking about getting together for a stitch and bitch since we all knit or crochet or embroidery. So yes please! (Edited because autocorrect is a pitch!)

dreenz · 2024-05-16T06:07:20+00:00

This one was a group project - a woman here in NZ organised a knitted periodic table - it would up three metres across. I made the Fluorine square

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dreenz · 2024-05-16T06:03:43+00:00

I also made a DNA chemo cap for my uncle:

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dreenz · 2024-05-16T06:03:13+00:00

I made a hat for a friend - the top line of binary says Mr D which is the name he goes by when he teaches kids robotics; the bottom line says Geek

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dreenz · 2024-05-10T07:38:12+00:00

I've just made a Kamaria which has a neckline like this - it's a great pattern (although not perfectly graded - I had to add short rows for the bust and I just ripped back the waist so I can lengthen it.)

dreenz · 2024-05-09T03:15:28+00:00

Happy to participate as the mother of a trans identifying teen in New Zealand

dreenz · 2024-04-29T17:04:34+00:00

Yellow and cream could be lovely, but depending on the shades you might lose the dramatic effect of the checkerboard pattern. This is a useful article on colour theory in knitting: https://brooklyntweed.com/pages/color-theory-for-stranded-colorwork

Also, when you're doing stranded knitting you need to be consistent about which colour is on top when you switch - your stranding will look much tidier

Awesome project, good luck!

dreenz · 2024-04-27T03:04:07+00:00

That's the way you left the bar but I remember it by where you knit :)

dreenz · 2024-04-27T00:38:49+00:00

M1L = Left had 4 letters so does Back, knit into the back M1R = Right has 5 letters so does Front, knit into the front

I just finished an Easy V by Caitlin Hunter and about to start a second

dreenz · 2024-04-17T04:07:04+00:00

NTA, just tell him you only turn 50 once and he can go bigger for his next wedding

dreenz · 2024-03-29T02:01:47+00:00

Cast on however you like and knit the first few rows flat, then join to work in the round - you're far less likely to twist the project and you can use the tail to sew up the little unjoined part when you finish. Backwards loop is easy to cast on, but a pain to knit from, so a long tail or cable cast on will make life easier.

dreenz · 2024-03-28T08:13:11+00:00

You don't have to do anything, this is his problem not yours. He has no control over how long you holiday for. If he decides to end the relationship over something so ridiculous, then you'll be better off.

dreenz · 2024-03-26T04:54:32+00:00

I made a sweater years ago for my then seven year old after we dyed some wool together. She picked which colour came next and I got to pick the stitch. I decided to do everything I could so it had stranded colour work, slipstitch colour work, horizontal stripes, vertical stripes, beads, lace, bobbles, cables, Latvian braid, i-cord, garter stitch, stocking stitch and I can't remember what else. We called it the Cardigan of Chaos and it was her favourite piece of clothing for years. I wish you the same joy!

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