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Hawke Cup: Cricket is about big numbers

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Significant achievements often get lost among overwhelming statistics, hindering recognition of major milestones. Bay of Plenty have recorded the highest score in Hawke... Read More

Just call me Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny What about Huguette? A beautiful name in that sensuous, unstressed, nasal, French way. Drop the ‘H' and pronounce the final ‘E'. Ugu-ett-e. Love it. I'm a bit of a Francophile. What... Read More

Good news for sore joints – Part 2

Abundant Life with John Arts | abundant.co.nz Nutritional therapy can be very effective with joints affected by Osteoarthritis. Recently, I had positive reports from people with sore joints. One reported significant... Read More

Blues, hardcore and R.I.P. The Knids

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz I sometimes get messages from parents, enthusiastic about their children's music. Contrary to what you might immediately assume, these almost always prove invaluable,... Read More

Hawke Cup: Cricket is about big numbers

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Significant achievements often get lost among overwhelming statistics, hindering recognition of major milestones. Bay of Plenty have recorded the highest score in Hawke... Read More

My new book from Amazon - Extracts from a few pages from Chapter 1

Weather Eye with John Maunder Climate Change is Not a major problem Bryan Leyland (in a recent review in the New Zealand Centre for Political Research) notes that underlying almost everything we hear from the... Read More

Spare me!! …. from the beggars

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny He was greasier than a butcher's chopping block. Had all the patter, the eyeballing, the shredding your resistance until your hand slides involuntarily towards that $5 in your back pocket.... Read More

A new book, a new album – yum!

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Last weekend I went to the Trinity Wharf Hotel launch of a big, bold and beautiful new book. ‘Paperboy Writer', by Tommy Kapai Wilson, is a lavishly-illustrated... Read More

CAB opposes migrant visa change

Not Sure? Ask Us with Catherine Fletcher Changes announced by government to the Migrant Exploitation Protection Work Visa will further disadvantage exploited migrant workers in Aotearoa, according to Citizens Advice Bureau... Read More

Celebrating historic cricket triumphs

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Cricket is enjoying a turn at the top of the sporting podium in New Zealand. Our White Ferns won the Women's T20 World Cup, and the Black Caps enjoyed a series sweep... Read More

Sunspots

Weather Eye with John Maunder A sunspot is a relatively dark, sharply defined region on the solar disc - marked by an umbra, dark area, which is 2000 degrees cooler than the effective photospheric temperature. The average... Read More

Dear Work Wife…

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It started well enough. But soon turned to crap. It was a note from Unesco advising of the upcoming International Day of Tolerance on November 16. Imagine, a Day of Tolerance - recalibrating... Read More