Write Space Literary news, views and reviews http://taurangawriters.org.nz This week's Write Space blog by Jenny Argante. This year has been particularly hard in a worldwide recession that, let me remind you, hits countries both large or... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondant & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Sideline Sid has returned to his first blog of the new year, not so much refreshed, as washed out by the constant rain of the last two weeks. While the rain gods tried to wreck the... Read More

Daz Switalla Flavour SecretsNo.1 The Strand Chef www.no1thestrand.co.nz At the Tauranga Farmers' Market before Christmas the throngs of market goers stocked up their fridges and pantries with the best seasonal produce. Farmers' markets are becoming... Read More

Laura's screening with Laura Weaser Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Directed by Guy Richie. When Guy Richie signed up to do the first Sherlock Holmes I couldn't think of anyone better to revamp the Victorian era detective series. The dynamic... Read More

Barbara Reid of Maison Monique maisonmonique.co.nz Welcome to the New Year 2012 and may it bring you much happiness and good health. Now the Christmas-New Year rush is over, take time to reflect just how fortunate we are to have a lifestyle we... Read More

Pete Morris Art blogger www.sunlive.co.nz Art year 2012 gets off to a spectacular start with a group exhibition at the Owen Dippie Gallery in Ashworth Lane, Mount Maunganui. Many of you will recall the fabulous gallery opening last September and... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Monthly rainfalls for Tauranga have been recorded at several recording sites over the last 114 years. From January 1898 to December 1904, the observation site was the Tauranga Harbour, from November 1904 to April... Read More

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim Well Christmas has come and gone. As ever it was a great time and as ever I think I ate too much. So this summer it should be diet and exercise. I say should be, if like me you got an e-reader and... Read More

Around the Clubs Mount Maunganui We've got a record 54-strong team heading to Red Beach, north of Auckland, this weekend for the Owen Chapman Cup. This is another good chance for our athletes to get some valuable competition, and two to watch... Read More

Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz Here we are in a new year and it's 2012. Yes, that's right, you read it in the newspaper, so it must be right. There's a lot to get through this year, because the world is going to end in March, according... Read More

News Hounds Ady & Flo ‘ARK ARK' I don't know if this is a sound I make warning the mobile compost machine - namely Flo - away from my food bowl, or what we should be constructing to get all of us away from the big wet! But I, like most of... Read More

Claire Rogers All about wine www.sunlive.co.nz If you are looking for a nice sauvignon blanc to serve with seafood, then I highly recommend this week's wine: Mt. Difficulty Sauvignon Blanc 2011. From Central Otago, this wine is ‘distinctly... Read More