Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid There is belief in New Zealand, that as a small and young country we are just a couple of degrees of separation from the history that has shaped our nation. At the... Read More

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

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz I'll start with a new single from a reasonably new band. No Reply are a nine-piece spread between the Mount, Pāpāmoa, Hairini, Matua, and Ōtūmoetai. With one horn... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Whether it is following the All Black rollercoaster, joining the Steamers' crowd at the Tauranga Domain last Saturday, being caught in the Baywide finals traffic-jam... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is currently neutral. Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the central equatorial Pacific Ocean are ENSO-neutral, having gradually cooled from... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny They say if something bad happens, then good will come of it. And so it was. Because 'niceness” rained down recently as the Bunny navigated a raft of personal irritations - I shared... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz There's all sorts of new music emerging. Let's cut to the chase... The album everyone's talking about, with good reason, is Tami Neilson's new one. Tami is apparently... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Early season cricket attention shines on the unlikely venue of Noida near Delhi in India, where the Black Caps are engaged in a historic one-off test match with Afghanistan. In... Read More

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". Rhis was followed in 2006 when... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Fiona Cosgrove's new album, Introspective has been out for more than a month. Actually, the delay has been deliberate: I've been waiting for it to appear on Spotify. Since... Read More

Abundant Life with John Arts | abundant.co.nz I just got off the phone from someone I first spoke to three months ago. Now in his sixties, he had a very physical career which has left him with painful knees from osteoarthritis. At... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny f the Queen were alive today, I'd probably call and ask how she managed to navigate 'annus horribilis”. Her horrible year. Remember 1992 - the marriages of three of her four children... Read More