This Saturday brings the start of the Baywide cricket championship, which decides the best premier club side in the Bay of Plenty, by way of a round robin followed by semi-finals and a grand final. The prize at stake in the Baywide competition is the... Read More

Politicians can certainly act quickly when they want something badly enough. As of last Sunday, it is illegal to use a handheld cellphone while driving on New Zealand roads. I've been opposed to this legislation since it was first mooted a few years... Read More

The fact that one man with a forklift was able to take out the power supply to the top half of the North Island shows how fragile New Zealand's electricity network really is. Friday's accident, in which a container hit a high-voltage power line in Otahuhu,... Read More

At monitoring committee, elected members had a presentation from Warren Banks, Chairman of Tauranga City Aquatics (TCAL), the organisation that runs all council swimming pools. The bad news could have been worse. Ratepayers' subsidy for all aquatic... Read More

Andy Moles has been unceremoniously dumped from the Black Caps. That is an amazing turn of events. One could say it is like sport in Pakistan where powerful men can change the team on their command. Why has this occurred? It has been said that several... Read More

The Bay's boaties couldn't believe it when finally, for the first time in a long time, we had a fine and settled Labour Weekend. Supposed to signal the start of summer, we'd nearly given up on Labour Weekend; but not this year. The waters of the... Read More

Well a couple of problems actually. Problem 1. Why is it, that all you female twoleggers get all sentimental over a frisky fraulien? My little cuzz Ady gets taken for a walk down to the local bank and all the female tellers invite her in, she does... Read More

This is a French drama set in spring 1936 in a working-class district in the north of Paris. In the centre of town there is a small square, a few shops, lopsided buildings, cobbled streets and the peeling facade of the neighbourhood music hall: the... Read More

It was a brilliant weekend on the water, sailing the clear blue waters off Mayor Island and beyond. Many Bay boating families were out there, making the best of a fine, classic spring weekend, a rare treat for a Labour Weekend. One incident noted:... Read More

My age is beginning to betray me. I seem out of touch with the new kind of gung ho approach by politicians; the fostering of solidarity and admiration among an audience that is most impressed by seeing them as 'good sports' and 'a laugh' and 'one of... Read More

Google has teamed with Twitter and is launching "Social Search". It's all the rage this week as it's due out for the masses on Monday. Sites all over the web are discussing it and telling us how it will work and how great it will be. Google have... Read More

While the rugby season in the Bay of Plenty has wound down with the finish for the Bay Steamers in the Air New Zealand Cup, local attention now turns to the international stage in several sports. While the All Blacks head to Europe by way of a stop-off... Read More