*Photo: The cat is now called Hannibal First published in the Isle of Thanet News of Friday 18th September 2020 Jane resumes her Lockdown Diary – Is
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One Glass was Never Enough when I worked the bar at Harpers…
*Photo: A trip down memory lane to Harpers Wine Bar First published in the Isle of Thanet News of Friday 17th July 2020 After the furore last
‘Lockdown’ and the great divide
*Photo: A divide between the morning bike riders and those seeking solace in cake… First published in the Isle of Thanet News of Friday 26th June 2020
The Cat’s Distancing Skills Still Need Work…
Lockdown Lowdown Diary ~ Week 4 First published in the Isle of Thanet News Friday 24th April 2020 Sunday Friends send pictures of their “virtual
Still in Lockdown
Lockdown Lowdown Diary ~ Week 2 My second column Lockdown column for the Isle of Thanet News appeared on (Good Friday) 10th April… Saturday We
Lockdown Lowdown Diary
My husband – more than two decades my senior – is now of an age, with health conditions that have put him on the list
The Big Five-O live and kicking – and set in Broadstairs!
It’s here! My sixth novel, The Big Five O, is now live and kicking on kindle and in e book (the paperback’s in September) and I am
Write around the Isle – turnips, thrillers and special guests
Sir Tony comes to town for BroadstairsLit There were turnips on display when Baldrick fans packed The Pavilion on 10th March to welcome Sir Tony Robinson
Write Around The Isle and BroadstairsLit
Literary gatherings have been popping up left, right and centre – I go to quite a few of them myself – and there are now
The Archers come to town…
So fab to host the Archers event last Friday at the Pavilion in Broadstairs with ace scriptwriter Keri Davies, the gorgeous Annabelle Dowler (Kirsty Miller),
Rum de tum ti tum de dum….. Calling all Archers fans!
Looking forward to this very much. Are you an Archers fan? Do you fancy a day trip to Broadstairs? Tickets from here . Would be brilliant
Jane remembers 2016
At midnight on 31st December I was travelling by car through the bottom of Broadstairs. In Ramsgate, minutes earlier, they’d been spilling out of pubs,
Plain Jane 290716: Expect gleeful Tories at ‘re-elect Corbyn’ meeting
Don’t ever let it be said there’s nothing to do in Thanet. For those wishing to be entertained, the excitement kicks off this evening (Friday
Plain Jane 260216: Should we, shouldn’t we? EU decide
So the referendum on membership of the EU is set for June 23 and we can now look forward to wall-to-wall media coverage of the
Plain Jane 041215: Manston, driving and, well, Manston again
I confess I have lost the plot when it comes to Manston. Much as I continue to grieve for the heady days of KLM and flights
Plain Jane 201115: Its vs it’s
Who knew? Our sewage systems are positively awash with precious metals. Analysts at Thames Water have discovered that when we wash our hands or clean
Plain Jane 250915: A trip down memory lane
In a spirit of better late than never, we are posting this anyway even though half of it is now past its sell-by date. But
Plain Jane 310715: Time for a brew
DEPRESSED by pub closures and the rise of alcopops? Good news is at hand. Sales of the cheap-booze-and-coloured-sugar drinks favoured by overgrown children are falling.
Plain Jane 170715: I can be as judgemental as the next person
My esteemed colleague, Mike don’t-get-me-started Pearce, has been on one of his jaunts. I don’t ask for details – they invariably involve pinball machines, model
Plain Jane 030715: Mike and Jane – Thrills at Dreamland
I didn’t see the rides at the opening of Dreamland. The wait was too long, the speeches too protracted and when the ribbon had finally
Plain Jane 190615: Eating your way through hotel breakfasts
SO FAR this year, what with speaking and interviewing and literary festivals and running off to bang my head against a different wall, I have
Plain Jane 050615: It’s tough to get a job if you don’t speak nonsense lingo
I HAVE been self-employed now for nigh-on 30 years and have long suspected this has rendered me utterly un-hireable to anyone in the usual (some
Plain Jane 220515 – A chilly reception
OH DEAR! It seems I haven’t got off to the best possible start with our new Kipper council. Let’s hope I don’t require a new
Plain Jane 100415: Plain Jane meets the Tories and Manston Airport Independent Party
I interview the Tory hopefuls by adopting police tactics. Sir Roger Gale has been in politics for half a century and the MP for Thanet
Plain Jane 030415: Plain Jane meets the Labour and United Thanet candidates
Continuing our series in which Jane Wenham-Jones meets the candidates, this week: Labour… THERE is a framed cartoon by Giles on my writing-room wall that
Plain Jane 270315: Meet the candidates for the Green Party
Continuing our series in which Jane Wenham-Jones meets the candidates, this week: the Greens… I was initially invited to visit the Green candidate for Thanet
Plain Jane meets the Liberal Democrats
I AM looking forward to meeting South Thanet’s Russ Timpson for two reasons. Firstly, the man has a sense of humour (not always a given
Plain Jane 130315: Meet the Candidates
A friend of mine once sat next to Nigel Farage on a plane. “He was very charismatic,” she said, clearly charmed even though her politics
Plain Jane 270215: Meet the Ukippers
“What a place to live!” wrote a friend from the Cotswolds, who’d been watching, aghast, the documentary Meet the Ukippers, aired last Sunday. I was at
Plain Jane 130215: Wearing bubble wrap and buying champagne
FRIDAY 13th. Time to don the bubble wrap and protective headgear, avoid ladders, leave plenty of time to catch the train, and for the chaps,
Plain Jane 310115: Saving the NHS is down to US
WITH under 100 days to go until the general election, the big issue, pundits tell us, will be the future of the NHS. It will
Plain Jane 160115: A look back at 2014
WELL, how’s yours been so far? My New Year greetings come late, after spending the opening hours of 2015 horizontal and groaning, in the clutches
Plain Jane 191214: The season to be jolly… and moany
OUR columnists Jane Wenham-Jones and Mike Pearce don’t need a certain supermarket to remind them that Christmas is for sharing. Every year, she gets out
Plain Jane 121214: Make a list
I DON’T know whether they teach this in journalism school – I am entirely self-taught (also known as untrained ) – but it is a
Plain Jane 281114 – 3D pregnancy scanning
I THINK I know this area pretty well, but from time to time I am surprised to discover somewhere in Thanet I had no idea
Plain Jane 191114: Every Lidl helps
MALE friends won’t believe me, but I don’t much like shopping. Not for me “a day out” at Bluewater, or an afternoon “just looking” at
Plain Jane 311014: Why prescribing Viagra to all men over 50 could save NHS
Plain Jane 311014: Why prescribing Viagra to all men over 50 could save NHS GREAT discoveries, it seems, arise from a split second of blinding
Plain Jane 171014 – It’s chocolate week
Somewhat after the event, but every day is chocolate day where I come from …. 🙂 Plain Jane – It’s National Home Security month, Dyspraxia
Plain Jane 190914: A megaphone, soapbox, and cheap-suited lackeys needed
Thank you to all those who have suggested that, further to my last column, I stand in the next election myself. My initial thought –
Plain Jane in the Isle of Thanet Gazette from Friday 21st June
Bit late getting this up here as have been away to the Winchester Writer’s Conference where I had the enormous privilege of hearing Julian Fellowes speak!
Plain Jane. Isle of Thanet Gazette. Friday December 21st 2012
This might not make entire sense to those not blessed with living on the Isle of Thanet but perhaps you would would wish for similar for
Plain Jane: Playing the Party Season
As some of you may know, I write a fortnightly column – alternating with My-Mate-Mike (he who hovers just to the right of Genghis Khan and
Greetings from (not-so) sunny Swanwick…
Actually it has been sunny but just happens to be p***ing down as I type. I am here at the long-running Swanwick Writers’ Summer School in
Trying to travel light to Penrith
Off to the fabulous RNA conference – or at least I hope it will be fab – I hadn’t realised quite how far Penrith was
Prime Time paperback is now out!
Prime Time is officially out now! I am bracing myself to start peering in bookshops (does one copy mean they’ve sold em all or is
