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Tag: South East England

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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*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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