Claire RogersAll about winewww.sunlive.co.nz An outstanding growing season combined with low-yielding vines produced exceptional quality grapes, resulting in Mills Reef producing a rich, full and creamy 2009 Reserve Chardonnay. The wine exudes... Read More

Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz We get the feeling from you good folk out there in Readerland that you're thoroughly sick and tired of the election campaigning and just want it over with. Some candidates probably feel... Read More

Pete Morris Art blogger www.sunlive.co.nz Most candidates standing in our October local body elections took the opportunity to speak to those with an interest in the arts at a meeting held in the Tauranga Club on Friday evening. Series Tetes... Read More

Guy Gardiner Accounting Now www.accountingnow.co.nz With GST changes nearly upon us, it is worth reviewing whether you need to be, or should be GST-registered.You need to be GST-registered if your business turnover is more than $60,000 a year,... Read More

Rosemary Murphy Developmental Learning www.developlearning.co.nz Oliver was 16 years old and about to be excluded from school.He had been diagnosed with a mild hearing loss at the age of 10 but was not prescribed any hearing aids. Over many years... Read More

Te Ururoa Flavell MP for Waiariki www.waiariki.maori.nz The Waitangi Tribunal released its long-awaited report on the Stage Two Post-1886 Tauranga Moana claims on September 4 at Hairini Marae, Tauranga. This report has taken four years to complete... Read More

Legal Brief with Alan Tate of Harris Tate www.harristate.co.nz Recent publicity about the will of undercover policeman Don Wilkinson highlights the need to keep your will up to date. Mr Wilkinson was fatally shot during a police surveillance operation... Read More

Claire Rogers All about wine www.sunlive.co.nz Hawke's Bay's Moana Park Winery is focused on the production of low allergen wines. Basically this means it adds fewer chemicals to their wine than other wineries. And that is great news, especially... Read More

Diesel Rogers Dining with Diesel www.sunlive.co.nz I have been blessed with an appetite to die for and a girth to suit.The reason I mention this is that the good people at the SPCA are holding a blessing for animals on October 3 at St. George's... Read More

Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz This week, as many of you scurvy dogs will know, voting papers for the local body elections arrived in your mailbox. Ironically it coincided with Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrgh, thar's a two-edged sword,... Read More

Will Tatton Talking about design www.willtatton.co.nz Discussion on the process of design is actually quite difficult to encourage - even when architects and architectural designers get together, other topics seem to take over. The... Read More

Llorne Howell Sports blogger www.irg.co.nz Cricket is front page news here as one would expect. The Royal Challengers Bangalore has just made the semis for the Champions League, so India is pleased about that. I think they expected all three teams... Read More