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Tag: Mike Pearce

I wish the camera would lie…

October 24, 2020 janewj

*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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Jane and Mike go forth: The Italian Job

April 18, 2017 janewj

‘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

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Plain Jane 281016: A fond farewell from Jane and Mike

October 30, 2016 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 100516: I might give Channel Tunnel another chance

May 10, 2016 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 220416: I might give Wetherspoon another chance

April 24, 2016 janewj

Celebratory times! Manchester City make the last four in the Champions League, the Queen – longest serving British Monarch – hits 90 (Happy Birthday Your

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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 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 130614: Is Thanet really only known for the shipping forecast?

June 15, 2014 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 300514: My view on term-time holidays

May 31, 2014 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 160514: So here’s to you Iris, best of luck with Thanet council

May 16, 2014 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 010514: 11 years of writing about Thanet, and I’m not done yet

May 1, 2014 janewj

  I have been writing this column for an astonishing 11 years – ever since I bludgeoned the then editor Mike Pearce, into giving me

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Mike and Jane: Christmas Time, Mistletoe and Whine…

December 23, 2013 janewj

My latest Isle of Thanet Gazette column – the annual joint offering with fellow columnist, my mate Mike 🙂            

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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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With friends like Mike :-)

April 4, 2013 janewj

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

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My-Mate-Mike in the Isle of Thanet Gazette 28th December

December 28, 2012 janewj

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

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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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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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