Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid A sport that predates the arrival of rugby to New Zealand's arrival in our country stopped off visited the Mount Maunganui RSA last Saturday. Today, wood-chopping sits... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder My new book "Climate Change: Nature is in Control" There are many people I would like to thank for making this book possible. The idea for the book came about when I was visiting my... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Today we delve where few rational, reasoned men have delved. Or have wanted to. Deep into the darkest, mysterious recesses of a woman's handbag. What the hell goes on in there? Serious... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz This column doesn't really do nostalgia: there's always something more important. But I like a warm wallow as much as anyone so, just for this week, let's... The... Read More

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