Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz

Welcome to another year in the Sun. One of my most successful resolutions was to get more input from those around me, to write this column. So far that plan is working well, since the newsroom and some of my mates have contributed this compilation of ‘New Year's Resolutions We'd Like to See'.

Interesting that AC/DC's Phil Rudd has featured highly in the number of suggestions, not all of which we can publish here.

So here they are. Remember, these are not from the Rabbit, but warped friends and acquaintances:

Everyone's New Year's resolution should be to remember to write 2015 instead of 2014.

Tauranga City Council's New Year resolution should be to agree on free city parking.
Santa needs to resolve to start in mid-December and all signs of Christmas gone by January 1.

Ditto the Easter Bunny – you have a fortnight window to get your buns sorted, no sooner and no later, then disappear completely from our radar for another year.

The large amount of sea lettuce appearing on the beaches should have a New Year's resolution not to appear here any more.

Phil Rudd's New Year's resolutions should be:

Not to appear in the media limelight this year. Gillette sponsorship. Dry January. Get his band members to return his calls. Put weight on for the perfect summer body.

And act like a male who is in his 60s instead of acting like a drug and alcohol-fuelled sex addict of the 1970s!

MetService's New Year's resolution should be to deliver warm, sunny weather with light winds all-year-round.

Prince Andrew – resolution to choose his friends more carefully.


Stuart Crosby – resolve to be contrite and admit the plastic waka idea was an abject nonsense.

Resolved to finally admit we didn't need to spend tens of thousands to learn the plastic waka would be scuppered before it floated.

He should resolve to be known as 'take a considered stance Stuart” this year.

Dotcom: Read the ‘I quit Sugar' book. Or cut down on pies. Travel more; take a trip to the US.


Patrick Gower: Take on Sonny Bill Williams/Joseph Parker in a boxing match.




Tauranga Eastern Link: With the help of snipers, get the toll road finished.

Jesse Ryder: should resolve to become a working ambassador for Lewis Road Creamery chocolate milk.

Resolve to discover the true meaning of the words abstention, responsibility and ‘last chance'.

Resolve to learn that water doesn't need rum, coke, ice in it to be palatable.

Phillip John Smith – should resolve to take holiday at home this year. And he should also resolve to take a little personal responsibility for the mistakes he's made and lives he's ruined.

Perhaps he might also resolve to give over his paltry prison pay to help defray air travel for cops to and from Brazil.

Susan Devoy: should get a job she actually knows something about and is qualified in – like sport – instead of race relations.

Eden Leichel's New Year's resolution should be to have a New Year's resolution.

Maybe anyone who uses the word ‘Yous' should invest in an English dictionary?

Brendan Horan: To rekindle my friendship with Winnie – that way I'm sure to get back into the Beehive.

Guy Fawkes should make a resolution to either quit or only go off on November 5.

Your resolutions are welcomed: brian@thesun.co.nz