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When she’s not got her sights set on her latest children’s film or TV project, Jan Caston can be found by the sea at her Corbiere-based home.
Today, the producer and screenwriter shares her thoughts on how to change the Island she calls home – from Oscar-worthy winning ideas to the more pop-corny.
I would turn France upside down. After forty years of routing through St Malo, I'd like to be near neighbours with Provence or the foothills of the Pyrenees rather than Brittany and Normandy. I'd like their weather too.
Pictured: The walled city of Saint Malo, France.
Oh, and if Biarritz and Bordeaux could be, say, 45 minutes drive away, that would be heaven.
Please could Jersey road signs to have a phonetic translation underneath so that I can finally pronounce the names properly? I still can't get my tongue around La 'Ruelle es Ruaux' the same way twice!
Pictured: The notoriously unpronounceable 'Ruelle es Ruaux'.
I have a group of heroes in Jersey: the white line men. Whenever I see them painting the road, my heart soars. That lovely clean white line down the middle of the road - solid, thick, or thinly-spaced - advises which side of the road vehicles should be on, whether it is safe to overtake or where it’s too dangerous to pass.
Pictured: Forget Superman, it's the road marking makers that get Jan's vote. Respect their work by obeying the rules of the road, she says.
I just wish some of the many selfish road-bullies would obey the advice painted on the roads by my heroes to keep them safe.
I live in the West and regularly enjoy the spectacular evening sunsets. Would it be selfish to ask that the sun also rise in the West so that I get that joyful uplift in the morning too?
Pictured: Sunrise and sunset in the West would be on Jan's agenda if she were in charge.
‘Nuff said, eh me lovelies?
Then again, when I'm invited over to the East what would I say instead of, “I'd better find my passport!”?
Pictured: With the new Police HQ set to make the Tunnel a lot busier, Jan argues there should be a flyover.
Love or hate it, that strange shaped, traffic slowing, smelly old tunnel is the landmark separating East and West. Perhaps we just need a flyover over it, particularly with the new Police Headquarters sure to cause even more congestion. Air lift over the top of the tunnel anyone?
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