Nine To Noon

Summer holidays have long since faded for most workers and the realities of being back to the grind might be settling in. When do work grumbles or dissatisfaction turn into something else - like burnout?

For some, the words "arriba" and "andale" will always help conjure an image of an extremely fast mouse in a Mexican hat. Speedy Gonzales is making a comeback, years after he got cancelled.

Kaitlyn talks to Kathryn about the clean up after Cyclone Vaianu, the kiwifruit orchard in Tauranga being cleared for a housing sub-division, an award winning Tauranga barber who has been changing lives along with cutting hair and the historic stagecoach photo being reimagined as a painting for the Te Puke RSA

Renata Hopkins reviews Whidbey by T Kira Madden, published by Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand.

On a February day Sally Wenley's boarding school took students on a picnic - she woke in Christchurch's Burwood Spinal Unit to learn she's a paraplegic. What happened that day is explored in Sally's memoir The Crash.