Will Tatton Talking about design www.willtatton.co.nz Continuing on design thinking process Well I had a great day on the mountain in sunny spring conditions and a great ride out west on untracked snow… then called in to see the Lake Taupo... Read More

Pete Morris Art blogger www.sunlive.co.nz The busy team at Creative Tauranga are now working on the planning of the inaugural Creative Tauranga Art Fair 2011. This new event on the Tauranga arts calendar is scheduled for Saturday, March 19 - 2011. The... Read More

Claire Rogers All about wine www.sunlive.co.nz Aurum Pinot Noir is a very concentrated young wine with intense blackcurrant, boysenberry and plum fruit flavours.Tony Lawrence from Aurum winery, a boutique family wine estate in Central Otago is... Read More

Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz We are coming under an increasing onslaught of annual 'Day of Whatever' events.Readers of this column will already be well acquainted with 'International Talk Like a Pirate Day'. The latest in the bombardment... Read More

Diesel Rogers Dining with Diesel www.sunlive.co.nz I guess we were all young once, but I don't remember having anywhere near the energy that little Rosie unleashed in our household this week. Agreeing to dog-sit a three-month-old lab cross pup... Read More

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim Last Wednesday eve, I attended an event at the Tauranga Club put together by Waikato University, BOP Polytechnic and Priority One. The aim was to bring students in their final years (or finished)... Read More

Rosalie Crawford of Webhealth www.webhealth.co.nz Recently a mother trying to make an appointment to have her child's condition assessed discovered there was a waiting list, so she set out to find what other top quality services were available... Read More

Carol Stovold Quality Kidz www.qualitykidz.co.nz Tauranga Over the past month teachers and educators at our childcare service have been attending a number of seminars from the Brainwave Trust centred around brain research and the impact this scientific... Read More

Simon Bridges National MP www.simonbridges.co.nz The generosity of our people never ceases to amaze me. Let me give you a couple of examples of Tauranga charity from the last fortnight. First was the 16th Annual Tauranga Police CIB Charity Auction. When... Read More

Howard Kay Osteopath Health 4 U www.health4u.net.nz Pain is often as a result of damaged tissue, local swelling and pressure on a nerve. It is a warning system the body uses to signal that something is wrong, hopefully preventing you from further... Read More

Catherine Delahunty Green MP www.greens.org.nz Oil will be the life-blood of our way of life for a little time to come. But the Greens think it is environmentally reckless to start a deep water oil drilling programme in one of the most important... Read More

Philip Holland Financial Independence www.financialindependence.co.nz At least 61 per cent of New Zealanders want to keep more of the money they earn. A survey conducted by one of our advisers, Steve Chitty, has highlighted the things Kiwi families... Read More