*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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*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
*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
*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
Lockdown Lowdown Diary ~ Week 4 First published in the Isle of Thanet News Friday 24th April 2020 Sunday Friends send pictures of their “virtual
Lockdown Lowdown Diary ~ Week 2 My second column Lockdown column for the Isle of Thanet News appeared on (Good Friday) 10th April… Saturday We
My husband – more than two decades my senior – is now of an age, with health conditions that have put him on the list
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
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
Literary gatherings have been popping up left, right and centre – I go to quite a few of them myself – and there are now
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),
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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,
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
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
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
I DON’T know whether they teach this in journalism school – I am entirely self-taught (also known as untrained ) – but it is a
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
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 GREAT discoveries, it seems, arise from a split second of blinding
Somewhat after the event, but every day is chocolate day where I come from …. 🙂 Plain Jane – It’s National Home Security month, Dyspraxia
Thank you to all those who have suggested that, further to my last column, I stand in the next election myself. My initial thought –
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!
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
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
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
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 is officially out now! I am bracing myself to start peering in bookshops (does one copy mean they’ve sold em all or is