*Photo: Jane being camera shy First published in the Isle of Thanet News of Friday 23rd October 2020 In my time as an author, journalist and guest-appearer

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*Photo: Jane being camera shy First published in the Isle of Thanet News of Friday 23rd October 2020 In my time as an author, journalist and guest-appearer
‘No. 1 – The Italian job’ courtesy of the www.theisleofthanetnews.com They’re back! Popular Thanet columnists Jane Wenham-Jones and Mike Pearce reunite for a lunch date which
Proud to see that in the final copy of the Isle of Thanet Gazette I appear in, I have made it onto the letters’ page
Friday Quiz Time and your starter for ten. Who knows what auspicious and momentous event took place on May 6th? Yes, well done, you at
Celebratory times! Manchester City make the last four in the Champions League, the Queen – longest serving British Monarch – hits 90 (Happy Birthday Your
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
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: Is Thanet really only known for the shipping forecast? As regular readers will know, I am an ardent proponent of this fair isle as the
RECENT figures have shown that 24,000 children each day are taken out of school for a family trip. If I still did the school-run, it
So another shake-up for our beleaguered local government. In-fighting and power struggles down at Cecil Street are nothing new, of course, but I am genuinely sorry
I have been writing this column for an astonishing 11 years – ever since I bludgeoned the then editor Mike Pearce, into giving me
My latest Isle of Thanet Gazette column – the annual joint offering with fellow columnist, my mate Mike 🙂
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!
Whenever I give one of my friends one of my books to read (some are too tight-fisted to cough up for one themselves :-)) I
Remember my excellent advice on coping when the old man is suddenly at home ALL BLOODY DAY? My esteemed fellow columnist on the Gazette, Mike
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
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