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A tongue-lashing from the ice-cream man…

September 19, 2020 janewj

*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…

July 18, 2020 janewj

*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

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‘Lockdown’ and the great divide

June 27, 2020 janewj

*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

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The Cat’s Distancing Skills Still Need Work…

April 25, 2020 janewj

Lockdown Lowdown Diary ~ Week 4 First published in the Isle of Thanet News Friday 24th April 2020 Sunday Friends send pictures of their “virtual

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Still in Lockdown

April 11, 2020 janewj

Lockdown Lowdown Diary ~ Week 2 My second column Lockdown column for the Isle of Thanet News appeared on (Good Friday) 10th April… Saturday We

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Lockdown Lowdown Diary

April 4, 2020 janewj

My husband – more than two decades my senior – is now of an age, with health conditions that have put him on the list

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The Big Five-O live and kicking – and set in Broadstairs!

July 12, 2019 janewj

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

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Write around the Isle – turnips, thrillers and special guests

March 25, 2018 janewj

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

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Write Around The Isle and BroadstairsLit

September 8, 2017 janewj

Literary gatherings have been popping up left, right and centre – I go to quite a few of them myself – and there are now

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The Archers come to town…

June 25, 2017 janewj

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),

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Rum de tum ti tum de dum….. Calling all Archers fans!

June 17, 2017 janewj

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

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Jane remembers 2016

January 9, 2017 janewj

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,

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Plain Jane 290716: Expect gleeful Tories at ‘re-elect Corbyn’ meeting

July 31, 2016 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 260216: Should we, shouldn’t we? EU decide

February 28, 2016 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 041215: Manston, driving and, well, Manston again

December 5, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 201115: Its vs it’s

November 21, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 250915: A trip down memory lane

September 28, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 310715: Time for a brew

August 2, 2015 janewj

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.

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Plain Jane 170715: I can be as judgemental as the next person

July 22, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 030715: Mike and Jane – Thrills at Dreamland

July 7, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 190615: Eating your way through hotel breakfasts

June 22, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 050615: It’s tough to get a job if you don’t speak nonsense lingo

June 5, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 220515 – A chilly reception

May 24, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 100415: Plain Jane meets the Tories and Manston Airport Independent Party

April 10, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 030415: Plain Jane meets the Labour and United Thanet candidates

April 3, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 270315: Meet the candidates for the Green Party

March 28, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane meets the Liberal Democrats

March 22, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 130315: Meet the Candidates

March 13, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 270215: Meet the Ukippers

February 27, 2015 janewj

“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

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Plain Jane 130215: Wearing bubble wrap and buying champagne

February 13, 2015 janewj

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,

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Plain Jane 310115: Saving the NHS is down to US

February 1, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 160115: A look back at 2014

January 18, 2015 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 191214: The season to be jolly… and moany

December 19, 2014 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 121214: Make a list

December 13, 2014 janewj

I DON’T know whether they teach this in journalism school – I am entirely self-taught (also known as untrained ) – but it is a

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Plain Jane 281114 – 3D pregnancy scanning

November 28, 2014 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 191114: Every Lidl helps

November 19, 2014 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 311014: Why prescribing Viagra to all men over 50 could save NHS

November 3, 2014 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 171014 – It’s chocolate week

October 22, 2014 janewj

Somewhat after the event, but every day is chocolate day where I come from …. 🙂 Plain Jane – It’s National Home Security month, Dyspraxia

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Plain Jane 190914: A megaphone, soapbox, and cheap-suited lackeys needed

September 21, 2014 janewj

Thank you to all those who have suggested that, further to my last column, I stand in the next election myself. My initial thought –

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Plain Jane in the Isle of Thanet Gazette from Friday 21st June

June 23, 2013 janewj

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!

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Plain Jane. Isle of Thanet Gazette. Friday December 21st 2012

December 22, 2012 janewj

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

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Plain Jane: Playing the Party Season

December 1, 2012 janewj

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

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Greetings from (not-so) sunny Swanwick…

August 15, 2012 janewj

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

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Trying to travel light to Penrith

July 13, 2012 janewj

Off to the fabulous RNA conference – or at least I hope it will be fab – I hadn’t realised quite how far Penrith was

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Prime Time paperback is now out!

July 5, 2012 janewj

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

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*Columnist of the Year*

Very thrilled with my #KPBA Kent Columnist of the Year Award for my #lockdowndiary column in The Isle of Thanet News.

The jury: “Jane’s lockdown diary was head and shoulders above the other entries and at a time when we were all left floundering, it was something really powerful to latch on to.”

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