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

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid The Boxing New Zealand National Championships, to be held in Christchurch, October 2-5 2024, date back 122 years, to the first titles in Christchurch during September... 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'. From... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz I often wonder about people reading this column. That's you, obviously. Mainly I wonder what you want to read about? Today the plan is to revisit Loserpalooza, the... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Supermarkets love me. Because I'm an undisciplined shopping spinner. I don't see supermarkets as food emporiums, but rather entertainment. I can spend a thoroughly enjoyable hour browsing... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid The arrival of the 2024-25 New Zealand Cricket season opens a new chapter for two local young men, who learned the fundamentals of the great game on the Western Bay of... Read More

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

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Toot toot, wave wave, bye bye! I'm about to jump aboard the great International Olympic gravy train. With luck, and a lick of cunning, you may see me in LAX in ‘28 presenting a medal... Read More