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Tag: Wannabe a Writer

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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This Gull knows which side her bread is buttered…

August 15, 2020 janewj

First published in the Isle of Thanet News of Friday 14th August 2020 And you thought it was only M**ST*N that caused outrage. I have recently

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Plain Jane meets the Liberal Democrats

March 22, 2015 janewj

I AM looking forward to meeting South Thanet’s Russ Timpson for two reasons. Firstly, the man has a sense of humour (not always a given

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Plain Jane 130315: Meet the Candidates

March 13, 2015 janewj

A friend of mine once sat next to Nigel Farage on a plane. “He was very charismatic,” she said, clearly charmed even though her politics

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Plain Jane 270215: Meet the Ukippers

February 27, 2015 janewj

“What a place to live!” wrote a friend from the Cotswolds, who’d been watching, aghast, the documentary Meet the Ukippers, aired last Sunday. I was at

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Plain Jane 130215: Wearing bubble wrap and buying champagne

February 13, 2015 janewj

FRIDAY 13th. Time to don the bubble wrap and protective headgear, avoid ladders, leave plenty of time to catch the train, and for the chaps,

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Plain Jane 310115: Saving the NHS is down to US

February 1, 2015 janewj

WITH under 100 days to go until the general election, the big issue, pundits tell us, will be the future of the NHS. It will

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Plain Jane 160115: A look back at 2014

January 18, 2015 janewj

WELL, how’s yours been so far? My New Year greetings come late, after spending the opening hours of 2015 horizontal and groaning, in the clutches

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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 121214: Make a list

December 13, 2014 janewj

I DON’T know whether they teach this in journalism school – I am entirely self-taught (also known as untrained ) – but it is a

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Plain Jane 281114 – 3D pregnancy scanning

November 28, 2014 janewj

I THINK I know this area pretty well, but from time to time I am surprised to discover somewhere in Thanet I had no idea

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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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Freebies and bargains …

August 4, 2012 janewj

Someone was asking somewhere – but I can’t find the comment – when Wannabe a Writer We’ve Heard Of? was going to be cheap on

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a right bleedin’ bargain

July 17, 2012 janewj

Even if I do say so myself. Wannabe a Writer? on Kindle, is a mere snip at 77p right now. Please pass it on.. Bargain. Photos

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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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