Blogs

Mickles and muckles – and gigs

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz I know I go on about valuing your feedback on this column. Which is, of course, exactly what I'd say if no one ever emailed; columnists all want to seem popular and engaged. But... Read More

Cast off! Your clothes that is...

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny 'Good ideas are always crazy...until they're not.” Thanks Elon. I take a billionaire's wisdom on board. But my latest idea is going to stay crazy. It's never going to not be crazy.... Read More

Sports and youth

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Pick up a daily newspaper or flick through the online daily news websites in our country, and you are likely to find headlines such as "Night of crime, five teenagers... Read More

Global Temperatures

Weather Eye with John Maunder The following data sets and comments are from the climate4you.com website developed by Professor Ole Humlum who is a Danish Professor Emeritus of Physical Geography at the University of Oslo,... Read More

Gigs – this week folks, it’s just gigs...

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz I have a great story to tell you but no space this week. It's like that sometimes. Gigs, gigs, gigs. Even halfway through writing this column I got a call asking if I... Read More

When truckers came to the party

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It's the story of two Olivers, the two very different journeys they took, and the impact they had on me. One simply brightened my day. Brightened my week. It shone through the gloom of cluster... Read More

Spotlight on Mt Smart Stadium

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Double glory and celebrations at Mt Smart Stadium over the weekend shone the spotlight firmly on the playing field that can trace its history back to WW2. An All Black... Read More

The United States 1930s dust bowl era

Weather Eye with John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book "ClimateChange: A Realistic Perspective". Below are extracts from pages 208-213. The... Read More

A chance to catch up and look ahead

Music Plus with Winston Watusi Let's start the way so many clubs start their meetings: with a little housekeeping. Last week I bemoaned the lack of news about New Zealand shows by English folk-punk singer/songwriter... Read More

Pedal, pedal, kerplunk!

Jim Bunny Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz When's a cycleway not a cycleway? When it incorporates bus shelters. Then the cycleway becomes just bits of a cycleway. Cycleway, bus shelter, cycleway, bus shelter. I... Read More

New face at the helm of BOP cricket

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz A recent Bay of Plenty Cricket facebook post announced the changing of the guard at the helm of the senior men's representative team with a new head coach appointment. Former... Read More

The year without a summer

Weather Eye with John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book "ClimateChange: A Realistic Perspective". Below are extracts from pages 225 -227.. The... Read More