Blogs
09:19am Fri 09 May, 2025
Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Find me a cult buster? I need one to brainwipe the brainwashed, before she spends $NZ200 on a Virgil van Dijk match jersey and another $NZ2000 on a season ticket to Liverpool's Kop. If... Read More
09:15am Fri 09 May, 2025
Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz I've been watching music documentaries recently; they're getting weirder. Last week I got Covid. Yes I know - who would have thought? Like that nice Mr Baker keeps... Read More
11:06am Wed 07 May, 2025
Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Staying with last week's subject of Eastern Bay of Plenty Cricket all-rounder, Leicester Spring, it is worth recalling the absolute champion racehorse in Rising Fast that... Read More
06:11am Fri 02 May, 2025
Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Funny old Uncle Anthony. Silly old Uncle Anthony. 'What a ning-nong!” as Aunty Dolly would say. He's just unscrewed the lid, red or yellow, on that hoary old Marmite versus Vegemite stoush. Australian... Read More
06:07am Fri 02 May, 2025
Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Despite writing for newspapers for more than 30 years I still have no idea how it all works, what makes a story a story. Two musicians I hugely admired have died in... Read More
06:00am Fri 02 May, 2025
Not Sure? Ask Us with Catherine Fletcher Your employer is only allowed to change your work hours if you agree to it, or your employment agreement allows for it. This includes changing the number of hours you work,... Read More
06:00am Fri 02 May, 2025
Lobbying For Good with Erika Harvey On Saturday, May 24, Tauranga's CBD Waterfront will come alive with the energy, talent and voices of our next generation. YouthFest 2025 is more than just a celebration, it's a blueprint... Read More
05:00pm Wed 30 Apr, 2025
Weather Eye with John Maunder A sunspot is a relatively dark, sharply defined region on the solar disc - marked by an umbra, dark area, which is 2000 degrees cooler than the effective photospheric temperature. The average... Read More
01:11pm Wed 30 Apr, 2025
Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Cricket is a game measured in big figures. Since the millennium, the Bay of Plenty has produced two players, in Kane Williamson and Trent Boult, who can stand alongside... Read More
06:10am Thu 24 Apr, 2025
Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny You don't achieve a body mass index like mine without being a slave to cake. See cake, want cake, scoff cake. So when 'war cake” cropped up in an Anzac discussion, the antennae twitched,... Read More
06:00am Thu 24 Apr, 2025
Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz A lot of new music is being released, and a bunch of old music - today we have both. Nigel Masters, Boatshed Studio boss, Kokomo bass player and multi-instrumentalist,... Read More
11:05am Wed 23 Apr, 2025
Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Anzac Day 2025 opens a new chapter at Bay Oval as the international cricket venue becomes a Super Rugby Pacific ground for a day. The Chiefs will be hosting the Western... Read More