Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid As I have mentioned in several previous pieces, one of the joys of being an amateur sports historian is discovering and confirming new information about the distant past. Looking... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny The sun's up over Waikareao Estuary. 'Sparkling waters of the new day” it means. Doesn't te reo Māori paint wonderful pictures? And today Waikareao is living up to its name. The tūī... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz We must be getting close to the end of the year - gigs are starting to wind down. Not the gigs themselves of course, but as December arrives they get sparser. It's... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder My sister Valerie died in Ashburton, New Zealand on the 12 th March 2001 after several years of bowel cancer. On my way to the funeral I called into a shop at Springs Junction on the Lewis... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid One of my mates asked me a question at last year's Boxing New Zealand National Championships held in Tauranga, which I have quietly considered for the last year and a... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder This week over 60,000 people will attend COP 29, the 29th gathering of the Conference of the Parties dealing with climate change. In contrast, 39 years ago a small group of 100 scientists... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Significant achievements often get lost among overwhelming statistics, hindering recognition of major milestones. Bay of Plenty have recorded the highest score in Hawke... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny What about Huguette? A beautiful name in that sensuous, unstressed, nasal, French way. Drop the 'H' and pronounce the final 'E'. Ugu-ett-e. Love it. I'm a bit of a Francophile. What about... Read More

Abundant Life with John Arts | abundant.co.nz Nutritional therapy can be very effective with joints affected by Osteoarthritis. Recently, I had positive reports from people with sore joints. One reported significant... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz I sometimes get messages from parents, enthusiastic about their children's music. Contrary to what you might immediately assume, these almost always prove invaluable,... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Significant achievements often get lost among overwhelming statistics, hindering recognition of major milestones. Bay of Plenty have recorded the highest score in Hawke... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Climate Change is Not a major problem Bryan Leyland (in a recent review in the New Zealand Centre for Political Research) notes that underlying almost everything we hear from the... Read More