The Good Lifewith Sue Edmonds The other week the view from my kitchen window changed. The tall and rotting stump of a white poplar down the paddock was no longer vertical, but horizontal. I assume a cow had done some heavy leaning, but the rot... Read More

John ArtsAbundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz I started working with potent antioxidants more than 15 years ago. These include nature's most potent antioxidant OPC, which is extracted from the purple pigments on red wine grape seeds. We soon started... Read More

Laura's screening with Laura Weaser Anonymous. Directed by Roland Emmerich. Out now on DVD. What if one of the greatest literary figures of our time was nothing more than an illiterate idiot who was merely a mouthpiece of a well-known Earl? That... Read More

Shaping Upwith Vickey Macintoshof Tauranga Healthy Inspirations You can't live forever, but with exercise, you can minimise the limitations of ageing far into your senior years. One of the fears of ageing is being unable to perform simple physical... Read More

Brent TrailManaging DirectorSurveying Services Ltd It is business as usual for those wanting to subdivide in the Waikato District. The proposed change, restricting subdivision, has been appealed by several parties. This means that we can use the... Read More

Tree Talkwith Peter HaringtonWoodmetrics Regional Manager The ongoing debate during the last few months about the sale of the Crafar farms has raised a lot of issues regarding foreign ownership of New Zealand productive land, and perhaps especially... Read More

Laura's screening with Laura Weaser Brother Number One. Out now in selected cinemas. Directed by Annie Goldson. Bookended by a brother's journey, Brother Number One leads the viewer through Cambodian history as told by Whakatane born Rob Hamill's... Read More

Weather Eyewith John Maunder Climate extremes in New Zealand, since instrumental records became available in the 1850s, show a range from the highest temperature of 42.4 degrees recorded in Rangiora on February 7, 1973, to the most intense rainfall... Read More

On sitewith Certified Builders PresidentJason McClintock Building regulations are now in place as to who can lawfully undertake critical building work on residential construction and, in some cases, maintenance/alterations. This work is called... Read More

Write Space Literary news, views and reviews http://taurangawriters.org.nz This week's Write Space by Lee Murray. Gene Fowler once said of writing: all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. There's... Read More

Brian RogersRogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz It's normal to get a few shark stories circulating in the media over summer. Lately, however, there's been a disturbing trend. When we say sharks, we're not referring to the slimey finance company director... Read More

News HoundsAdy & Flo www.sunlive.co.nz Flo arrives home in the Mobile Vet taxi with Monique, after a big day out at Jorg's surgery. I'm not sure what happened to Flo on Wednesday, but it must have been one hell of a party. She came back to... Read More