06:10am Thu 24 Apr, 2025
Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny You don't achieve a body mass index like mine without being a slave to cake. See cake, want cake, scoff cake. So when 'war cake” cropped up in an Anzac discussion, the antennae twitched,... Read More
06:00am Thu 24 Apr, 2025
Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz A lot of new music is being released, and a bunch of old music - today we have both. Nigel Masters, Boatshed Studio boss, Kokomo bass player and multi-instrumentalist,... Read More
11:05am Wed 23 Apr, 2025
Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Anzac Day 2025 opens a new chapter at Bay Oval as the international cricket venue becomes a Super Rugby Pacific ground for a day. The Chiefs will be hosting the Western... Read More
11:00am Thu 17 Apr, 2025
Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Easter is here. The jazz festival is in full swing. Let's talk about other things. Oddly, however, I keep running into people who have no idea the jazz festival is... Read More
10:53am Thu 17 Apr, 2025
Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It was one of those ‘what if' moments. A sickening one. A cyclist with an excessive belief in their own immortality sailed blithely through a busy Motueka intersection - against the... Read More
10:52am Thu 17 Apr, 2025
Abundant Life with John Arts | abundant.co.nz I've spoken to many farmers whose osteoarthritis started when they came off second best in an incident with livestock. Builders, mechanics, nurses and similar roles are also... Read More
01:27pm Wed 16 Apr, 2025
Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Following on from last week about the establishment of what is today Racing Tauranga, from the 1870s, there were picnic meetings held outside the bounds of regulation. Unhampered... Read More
06:52am Fri 11 Apr, 2025
Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It all started happening about age 65. That's when some things started falling off, other things stopped working or required chemical intervention, and yet other things needed replacing altogether.... Read More
06:45am Fri 11 Apr, 2025
Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Okay, the Jazz Festival has officially started. There's been jazz at the Mount hot pools, the youth band competition is done, and there have been lunchtime concerts in... Read More
12:13pm Wed 09 Apr, 2025
Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid A recent story on SunLive about the Monmouth Redoubt restoration grabbed my attention. Work is under way to restore the Monmouth Redoubt, which includes structural... Read More
05:00pm Mon 07 Apr, 2025
Weather Eye with John Maunder Following the death of my sister Valerie in 2001, I wrote the hymn 'There is season” (based on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) which used the hymn tune 'Sandon". This was followed in 2006 when... Read More
08:30am Fri 04 Apr, 2025
Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Last Saturday saw the end of the local cricket season with both Bay of Plenty and Western Bay of Plenty staging championship finals day. It is interesting to note that... Read More