Winston Watusi Music Plus We continue this currently weekly glance at things appearing on the radar at the Watusi Country Club that have helped turn Winston's frown upside down while in lockdown. Each week expect a selection...

Weather Eye with John Maunder Rainfalls for the month of March have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898 – except for 1904, 1908 and 1909. This graph below shows the range of rainfalls from a high of 504 mm in 1979, to a...

Winston Watusi Music Plus So here we are: the first column without a newspaper to accompany it. After over fifteen years of writing a weekly column it seems strange. But, in the hope that some of you out there, either isolated...

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz With plenty of time on his hands, Sideline Sid was cleaning up some of his cricket files the other day, when he stumbled on his Bay of Plenty Cricket Player of the...

Weather Eye with John Maunder Global temperatures are compiled for various areas including global (land-ocean), global (meteorological stations), three latitude bands, and hemispheric, by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies...

Winston Watusi Music Plus To help make your lockdown a little less trying we are doubling our weekly dose of Winston. His regular column will continue on Fridays and now every Monday he will expound on things currently making him...

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Last weekend, a thoroughbred race that dates back over a century was run at the Gate Pa track. The Tauranga Cup, over one and a quarter miles, was run almost continuously...

Winston Watusi Music Plus Greetings from lockdown. We're all in the same boat now... I got in early, going into self-isolation 30 hours before the entire country after picking up the youngest Watusi, who had wisely decided...

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch Hmmmm, very quiet outside. Too quiet. Mrs Hutch has just left for work but not before telling me how essential she is – for the third morning in a row. Rest home health care assistants –...

Weather Eye with John Maunder Global temperatures are compiled for various areas including global (land-ocean), global (meteorological stations), three latitude bands, and hemispheric, by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies...

Winston Watusi Music Plus This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a slowly descending silence. Things are not going well right now. I sat down with a friend for a drink a couple of days ago. We joked that by the...

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP This past week saw some momentous announcements as our government pulled out all the stops to protect the health of New Zealanders and the health of our economy in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The...

Simon Bridges National Party Leader simonbridges.co.nz I understand many of you will be worried in light of recent events regarding COVID-19. The reality is that this is an unprecedented event and I don’t blame you for...

Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris Being a small, isolated country at the bottom of the world, nearly 2000km from our nearest neighbour sure has its disadvantages but it doesn’t feel...

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch Having studied a few faces this week, I can see there are more worry lines and big eyes than usual. These are classic symptoms of severe worry brought about by exposure to significant eventitis. This...

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz With the coronavirus sweeping the globe, the Olympic Games are in danger of postponement or cancellation. It's not for the first time the biggest international...

Weather Eye with John Maunder The chart below shows that since 1979, when reliable satellite observations became available, there has been little overall trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from milder/warmer temperatures...

Winston Watusi Music Plus “Jazz is not dead” - that's what Frank Zappa famously said; he added “It just smells funny”.  It's a good line. I almost hesitate to repeat it since it has been so...

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP Upon becoming president in the height of the global depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Those words seem apt as I watch the...