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Plain Jane 191114: Every Lidl helps

November 19, 2014 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 311014: Why prescribing Viagra to all men over 50 could save NHS

November 3, 2014 janewj

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

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Plain Jane 171014 – It’s chocolate week

October 22, 2014 janewj

Somewhat after the event, but every day is chocolate day where I come from …. 🙂 Plain Jane – It’s National Home Security month, Dyspraxia

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Plain Jane 190914: A megaphone, soapbox, and cheap-suited lackeys needed

September 21, 2014 janewj

Thank you to all those who have suggested that, further to my last column, I stand in the next election myself. My initial thought –

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Plain Jane 050914: Of course Nigel Farage won the hustings, he’ll win the election too

September 8, 2014 janewj

Of course Nigel Farage was selected as our UKIP candidate for South Thanet. He was always going to be and I am surprised that those

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Plain Jane 080814: From the art crowd to a new crowd and an old row

August 9, 2014 janewj

Margate is in the news again. Described as “the formerly gritty seaside town”, Margate has made its way onto yet another list, coming in at

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Plain Jane 090714: Three cheers for poo-lice

July 12, 2014 janewj

ANDY Murray lost the tennis; the Germans won the football (so far). Type two diabetes is on the rise, standards are falling. Rumour has it

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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 180414: Family tree research just to get my passport

April 20, 2014 janewj

Plain Jane: Family tree research just to get my passport If I can give you one small piece of advice this week – along with

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Plain Jane 200314: I don’t like to complain but…

March 22, 2014 janewj

YOU know me, dear readers, I don’t like to complain – a regular little Pollyanna here, we are – but things have been, how shall

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Plain Jane 200214: Who is worthy of NHS treatment?

February 24, 2014 janewj

SIR Andrew Dillon, the pleasant-sounding head of Nice (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence), is expressing doubts about taking “wider societal benefit” into

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Plain Jane 230114: Time for council to do some good, for a change

January 29, 2014 janewj

I am naturally thrilled to hear that Thanet Council have been hitting their targets, with a bullseye for 44 out of 58 “key projects”. I

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Plain Jane 090114: With five diaries, why do I keep missing things?

January 12, 2014 janewj

OK HANDS up – who’s fallen by the wayside already? You over there with the fag and the cream bun – weren’t you going to

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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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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 221113: I like Laura Sandys, but…

November 27, 2013 janewj

I like Laura Sandys. While not a natural inhabitant of the same neck of the woods, politically, as our good MP for Thanet South, (to

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Plain Jane 081113: Who says we can’t make our own entertainment?

November 12, 2013 janewj

WHO says we can’t make our own entertainment? This family, gathered round the kitchen table on a dark, windswept night, has just spent an enjoyable

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How time flies… a big hand for Carole Blake!

November 7, 2013 janewj

How time flies… a big hand for Carole Blake! My small tribute to the Queen of Shoes and her Fifty Years in Publishing. It was

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Doing NaNoWrimo??

November 1, 2013 janewj

I am not doing NaNoWriMo officially, but with a book to finish, another one to start, columns piling up, hundreds of emails to answer and

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Plain Jane 251013: Why I’m welcoming Manston’s new owner Ann Gloag

October 26, 2013 janewj

SO MANSTON Airport has been sold for a pound. As the lovely Ed and I agreed, had we known it was going to be so

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I couldn’t have put it better myself…

October 18, 2013 janewj

A lovely blog post here from the immensely talented Clare Mackintosh (watch out for her debut novel next year – it’s going to be astonishing)

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Plain Jane 111013: Woe of Student Finance on deadline

October 12, 2013 janewj

I AM on a deadline or three. There’s a scarily half-done manuscript to deliver, and articles needed sooner. I have bills to pay, e-mails to

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Plain Jane 270913: I flew to Manchester via Amsterdam and I’m not sorry

October 5, 2013 janewj

LAST week, much to the consternation of the local bloggers, I flew to Manchester. Via Amsterdam. Yes, I got on a plane at Manston, landed at Schipol,

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Plain Jane 130913: Maturity has its reward, thank heavens

September 16, 2013 janewj

For those of you gagging to read my Isle of Thanet Gazette column without having to shell out 80p, here it is, hopefully better late

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Plain Jane 280813: Everyone has a book in them…

August 30, 2013 janewj

THEY say everyone’s got a book in them and I say: Sometimes it should stay there! The explosion of ebooks and self-publishing has made everybody

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Plain Jane 020813: My Top Parenting Tips

August 4, 2013 janewj

ALL together now, a great big ahhhhhh. I love a new-born baby (it’s the next 18 years that wears one down). And, together with the

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Plain Jane: The heat is on, some tips for surviving the summer

July 19, 2013 janewj

SO THE heat is finally on – and has even reached Thanet – with temperatures predicted to soar into the thirties and stay there. Cue

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Plain Jane in the Isle of Thanet Gazette from Friday 5th July

July 7, 2013 janewj

ONE of the things you learn as you get older is that whatever it was, it was always longer ago than you think. I was

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Plain Jane, Isle of Thanet Gazette 07 June 2013: Council double-speak hides another waste of money

June 7, 2013 janewj

And now I AM on the new website… hurrah! But here is my latest Plain Jane for those who’ve got used to reading it here… And Happy

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Plain Jane, Isle of Thanet Gazette, 24th May 2013: The Big Thanet Breakfast

May 24, 2013 janewj

The Isle of Thanet Gazette has a new website ( www.thanetgazette.co.uk) but it’s not yet sporting my latest column. So, for the strong-stomached, you saw it

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We have a winner!!!!

May 19, 2013 janewj

100 Ways to Fight the Flab Competition. Judged by Janie Millman, Morgen Bailey (and me). ….  It was very, very difficult to choose. We wrangled

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100 Ways to Fight the Flab Competition – Top 5

May 12, 2013 janewj

Following on from last weekend’s Top 12, we are pleased to announce the creators of the Top 5 Flab-fighting tips, complete with the tips themselves, again in

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Plain Jane: With beaches like ours, why are we still languishing in deprivation?

May 10, 2013 janewj

Plain Jane with Jane Wenham-Jones: With beaches like ours, why are we still languishing in deprivation? I BLAME my colleague Mike Pearce. I go to

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100 Ways to Fight the Flab Competition – Top 12

May 5, 2013 janewj

Taa-Raaa – we have the first set of results of the Fight the Flab Competition, judged by Janie Milman, co-owner of the fab Chez-Castillon, Morgen-with-an-e-Bailey

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Isle of Thanet Gazette: Plain Jane 260413

April 26, 2013 janewj

If Thanet councillors don’t want people to see them brawling, they should behave with dignity YEARS ago, when I was young and passionate, I joined

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Plain Jane 12.04.13: Iain Duncan Smith could live on £53 a week – but that is not the point

April 12, 2013 janewj

Plain Jane 12.04.13: I am often asked to sign petitions and occasionally I do, but mostly I find them a pointless waste of time. And

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Plain Jane in the Isle of Thanet Gazette

March 29, 2013 janewj

I can’t find this up on thisiskent.co.uk despite the invitation at the foot of the printed column – if you can, please do send me the

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A Very British Blog Post

March 18, 2013 janewj

*** Have been having a grand catch-up on my emails (just the 117 now left in my To-Answer folder) and discovered this British Blog Post

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Plain Jane, Isle of Thanet Gazette, 15th March 2013: A heavy Pryce for us all to pay

March 15, 2013 janewj

Thought it was too good to be true. My Plain Jane column is up online but without my name on it. Again. But did write

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RNA & Plain Jane 1st March 2013: The sartorial choices of the stay-at-home writer

March 1, 2013 janewj

Bit lax on the old blogging front lately but will catch up soon with the excitements of Richard and Judy at the book awards –

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Plain Jane 15 Feb 2013: Lasagne? What’s the beef?

February 18, 2013 janewj

The trouble with writing a column five days in advance  and then not getting round to posting it for three more is that by then

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100 Ways to Fight The Flab – Womag Review

February 10, 2013 janewj

100 Ways to Fight The Flab has its second review! “heartily recommend for all writers, both big and small” “I must say it’s quite brilliant”

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er… not on the radio after all…

February 10, 2013 janewj

Quick one to say that they have technical problems over at Radio Litopia so I won’t be on this evening after all… Will post new

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Shortlists and radio shows

February 8, 2013 janewj

There – don’t they look pretty? Prime Time with the covers of the other lovely books shortlisted for the Romantic Comedy category of the RoNas.Very proud

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Today’s Plain Jane

February 1, 2013 janewj

Hello and  Happy Friday. We have progress of sorts. My column in the Isle of Thanet Gazette is finally online (hurrah) but does not yet

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Guesting on Nikki Goodman’s blog

January 30, 2013 janewj

Those who are sharp-eyed and read my last author post with Peter Jones may have noticed that I failed to publish a post last Wednesday.…

Overly excited and thrilled

January 23, 2013 janewj

Am suitably delighted to report that Prime Time has been shortlisted for the Romantic Comedy category of the RoNas today. This is a massive honour  of

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Plain Jane. Isle of Thanet Gazette. Friday 18th January 2013

January 19, 2013 janewj

Eat crisps to beat the flab The problem with having written a weight-control book (one can hardly talk “diet” when tips involves chocolate) is that

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100 Ways to Fight the Flab

January 3, 2013 janewj

I know I’m a bit of a show-off but even I wouldn’t display my bottom without good reason. These photos were taken as possible cover

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Top Comment-leaver of 2012…

January 1, 2013 janewj

Yes, excitement, drum roll, etc. I am pleased to announce that… Tony Tibbenham has the doubtful glory of being crowned the most-frequent-commenter on this blog in

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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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