Blogs
10:14am Fri 01 May, 2020
Winston Watusi Music Plus And we're off again! You can't keep a good paper down and much sooner than I expected, The Weekend Sun is back in print. Like very many of you I am... Read More
10:45am Wed 29 Apr, 2020
Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Les Jarvis, who became a familiar sight in Greerton Village on his way to walk his dog on the Tauranga racecourse, left behind a direct link to champion racehorse... Read More
07:22am Tue 28 Apr, 2020
Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP This column is about your unity, your sacrifice, and your success so far. We're showing that a team of five million, working together, really can take a huge step towards the goal of eliminating COVID-19... Read More
10:57am Mon 27 Apr, 2020
Weather Eye with John Maunder The 'Maunder Minimum' is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots - 'storms' on the sun - became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer... Read More
09:38am Fri 24 Apr, 2020
Winston Watusi Music Plus I don't remember how this column came to be called 'Music Plus”. It is not what you'd call an inspired name, and I suspect that a lack of imagination... Read More
08:55am Thu 23 Apr, 2020
Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz One of the few silver linings to come out of the coronavirus lockdown has been the rediscovery of exercise as a way to cope with trials and tribulations that the... Read More
11:06am Tue 21 Apr, 2020
Winston Watusi Music Plus We continue this currently weekly glance at things appearing on the radar at the Watusi Country Club. Things that have sparked little fires of joy in young... Read More
12:56pm Mon 20 Apr, 2020
Nick Earl Lyon O'Neale Arnold director The lockdown period is a good time to take stock and get onto 'life admin' tasks that often take a backseat in busy lives. Organising a Will is one of these tasks that can easily fall... Read More
09:44am Mon 20 Apr, 2020
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... Read More
02:06pm Thu 16 Apr, 2020
Winston Watusi Music Plus We continue this currently weekly glance at things appearing on the radar at the Watusi Country Club. Those things that bring on bouts of beamishness in young Winston. This week it's all Kiwi stuff... Read More
08:50am Thu 16 Apr, 2020
Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP We are in extraordinary times, with New Zealand experiencing a pandemic not seen in over 100 years and in a lock down that we've never experienced before. For some it's a minor... Read More
08:46am Thu 16 Apr, 2020
Simon Bridges National Party Leader simonbridges.co.nz As we enter what could be the final week of level-4 lockdown there is still a lot of questions and uncertainty for many of you. As a country, we need to be seriously thinking... Read More







