Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Week One of the NRL playoffs, saw the New Zealand Warriors given a rugby league lesson, when the Penrith Panthers defeated the New Zealand side 32-6 after posting twenty... Read More

Weather Eye with 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 Celsius recorded in Rangiora on February... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz As far as I'm aware there is no collective noun for signs, a shame since every roadside berm is now littered with electioneering billboards. I'm not a fan.... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It's damned confusing. The seasonal body clock's all to hell, all out of sync. Has spring already sprung or is it still tightly coiled, but about to ‘sproing'? I am taking my cue from... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder From January 1898 to December 1904, the observation site was described as the Tauranga Harbour, from November 1904 to April 1907 the site was described as simply ‘Tauranga'.... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Like… what are we doing to the word 'like'? It's been an extremely useful and versatile little word that has served the English language well for 200 years. It deserves a little respect. It's... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz The more you think about it the more it comes down to songwriting. I blame the Beatles. Why not? Half of them are dead and the other half are too rich to care. Or... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The following data sets and comments are from the climate4you.com website developed by Professor Ole Humlum who is a Danish Professor Emeritus of Physical Geography at the University of Oslo,... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Knowing when you have reached your use-by date in sport, is a fine-line between retirement at the top end of a sporting career and hanging on to illusions of past success,... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny We called him ‘Mal'…short for ‘Malingerer' or ‘Malady' or ‘Mal-adjusted'. ‘Mal' because he was always throwing ‘sickies'. He wore these labels shamelessly. ‘Sickies'... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz It must be tough to be an MP: people just insist on making fun of you. Take our embattled local representative Sam Uffindell. Talk about not being able to... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Here's a local sports trivia question to open this week's column. What sporting event took place in Tauranga last weekend, where the participants wore fashionable... Read More