Having dabbled more than just a little in weather forecasting over the past 40-odd years, I was pretty excited by the cold snap that had the South in its sights this week.
Welcome back yet again, and welcome to what could be the coldest week of the year, if the forecasts coming out late last week and over the weekend come true.
Just a short column for you today. I seem to have picked up some bug or other that's going round the office and I've just popped in for a few hours. I feel like I want to go to sleep - though, as...
I'm not planning on delving into politics again today, but thanks for the calls and emails expressing similar sentiments about the lynch-mob approach to Dunedin South MP Clare Curran's departure...
Private forecasting company WeatherWatch claims MetService is engaging in ''misleading advertising'' and has taken the state-owned enterprise to the Commerce Commission.
What do people want Central Otago to be like in 30-odd years' time, Paul Gorman asks. Should large-scale development continue at pace, or is it time to call a halt?
Welcome to the last What's With That of the week - in fact the last one until a week on Monday. I am sure the lack of a column next week saddens you as much as it does me.
Somebody remarked to me the other night that the stories in this column of the 1952 cable-car accident in lower High St were probably putting the mockers on Dunedin's ability to reintroduce the...