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Tag: Ramsgate

What’s wrong with the Bank of Mum and Dad?

August 8, 2020 janewj

First published in the Isle of Thanet News of Friday 7th August 2020 I know it might seem odd to wax lyrical about a financial institution

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A Wet Nose (and Foot) doesn’t dampen Chippy Dinner Delight

May 16, 2020 janewj

In week seven of her lockdown diaries, Jane struggles to stay alert… First published in the Isle of Thanet News of Friday 15th May 2020 Saturday It

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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 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 230916: High heels are hardly well-suited for work

September 23, 2016 janewj

WELL DONE the TUC for voting to prohibit employers from forcing women to wear high heels at work. Heels may look terrific but in my

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Plain Jane 160916: Corbyn comes to Ramsgate.

September 16, 2016 janewj

As I reach for my hard hat and flak jacket, here is my latest Gazette column… Whoever first said you only regret the things you

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Plain Jane 190816: Council organises ‘how to wear scarves’ class

August 18, 2016 janewj

Poor old Northamptonshire County Council has come under fire for putting on a course entitled How to Tie a Scarf. The three-hour session – a

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Plain Jane 150716: Brexit is going well…..

July 15, 2016 janewj

It’s going well so far, isn’t it? As I write, the big property funds have been forced to suspend trading, we’ve lost our triple-A credit

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Plain Jane 010716: After the Vote

July 2, 2016 janewj

I woke up on Saturday morning feeling strangely unwell. I mentally ran through what I’d eaten the night before and counted up the glasses of

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Plain Jane 170616: How we vote on Thursday will probably come down to instinct

June 17, 2016 janewj

So it’s finally here. After all the weeks of posturing, scare-mongering, claims and counter claims, the referendum is finally upon us. Come Thursday we can

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Plain Jane 030616: Debt, water and the sugar tax

June 9, 2016 janewj

My latest Plain Jane column. The version that came out in print – and online – was mysteriously lacking my last sentence. Is it that dreadful

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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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EASTER: Plain Jane brings your reasons to be cheerful – including beer and chocolate

March 25, 2016 janewj

In these difficult and joyless times of conflict, health scares, national obesity and George Osborne, may I take the rare opportunity to look on the bright

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Plain Jane 110316: We don’t want a new town

March 12, 2016 janewj

“We’re almost there–” proclaims the latest shrink-wrapped brochure from Stone Hill Park, above a photo of children hopping, somewhat bizarrely, in sacks, through fields of

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Plain Jane 290116: Election gaffe

January 30, 2016 janewj

Channel Four’s Michael Crick started it, the Electoral Commission is looking into it and now, according to Mr Crick’s blog, one Michael Barnbrook from Ramsgate,

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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 310815: Watch where you walk

September 2, 2015 janewj

SO THERE went summer. I know it goes more quickly as you age and grow grumpy but this one really has sped past at an

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Plain Jane 140815 – Bra-vellous project

August 14, 2015 janewj

If we live in a small world then Thanet is microscopic. Hold forth in the pub about the bloke from the garage and it will

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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 250714: Royalty, politics, tourism and how not to waste money

August 1, 2014 janewj

Originally published last week but I’ve been away teaching at the fabulous Chez Castillon… HAPPY Birthday Prince George and congratulations on being able to walk.

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Plain Jane 271213: My review of the people and places of 2013

December 28, 2013 janewj

Regular readers of this column (God help you) will know that my final offering of the year has historically been a round-up of my top

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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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*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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