Frank Leavers
Frank has been writing a number of different columns for the Bulletin for almost 16 years; in that time he has also worked as a radio and television presenter in Mallorca. He has a background in the press, media, politics and public affairs that goes back to the early 1980’s. Alas, he’s getting grumpier as he gets older!
Kids! Who’d have them?
The very process and desirability of parenthood is not what it was just a few decades ago.
It’s only Rock & Roll, but I like it!
Then there was a number of fantastic gigs I did the press & media for when a number of superb artists visited Mallorca in the noughties.
Please keep your clothes on will you?
Indeed I think that the Balearic authorities should introduce a by-law actually banning inappropriate leisure-wear among tourists and not forgetting residents, who can be as bad sometimes.
Turned out nice again hasn’t it?
I have to say that I’d quite forgotten just how bizarre the British media can be where weather is concerned.
Up the wooden stairs to Bedfordshire!
Someone will be sleeping on a sofa I reckon, and it isn’t going to be me!
That's what friends are for - isn’t it?
So then, pick your friends carefully, that’s what I say.
Going forward - It is what it is!
Why do people insist on saying some of the following irritatingly meaningless phrases, such as...
Racism in the UK - A different time and a very different place!
I really do not need to be lectured by some middle-class, entitled, Oxbridge student as to Britain’s inherent racist attitude to minorities in this country
The Coronation plus Eurovision: Lots of fun, but just a little embarrassing!
“As for The Eurovision Song Contest, I have to say that I would make it an every five year extravaganza… ...”
Hey, I Like Jazz - It’s Really Cool Man!
My sudden and alarming embrace of modern jazz has revitalised my interest in music.
Our Spanish survey says!
Spain of all European nations has more of its young people (of working age) living at home with their parents than any other country.
Brits taking off on holiday; it’s up -up and away!
“A Tui Travel survey claims that there are at least “15 signs” that a typical Brit will exhibit when he or she should travel abroad by aeroplane...”
Come on let’s talk about me!
It never ceases to amaze me just how ‘self-centric’ we’ve been encouraged to become by all-and-sundry - from vacuous television presenters, to touchy-feely young royals in need of a selfless new cause to bash us over the head with.
Working from home can turn you into a hunchback!
I wonder if you have tried to raise the hight of your laptop, or forced yourself to sit back further in your chair to nullify some of the inevitable slouching that follows even a short session of work?
Families at war: why not negotiate a truce?
I have this theory that very rarely do family members have big bust-ups, mostly we just drift apart slowly, nothing to do with ill-will, just the pressures of life in general.
Living the (long) life well lived!
Apparently, there are 14,500 centenarians currently living in the United Kingdom at the moment...
Boring? Who me... Never!
It seems that being certifiably boring is about as bad as it can get if you wish to insult a chap who is not in the first flush of youth.
Memories are made of this - but can you remember them?
Personally, I find a selective memory most advantageous, this ensures that you only remember what you want to remember.
Hair today - gone tomorrow!
“Why is it that so many women are seemingly obsessed by their hair and sometimes talk of little else?”
- Spain wants Britons to show they have 113.40 euros, £97, per day for their holidays
- Big changes on the horizon when Britons travel to Mallorca
- Over two hours for Britons to get through Palma airport queues
- Palma Airport passport control "collapse" put down to unscheduled flights
- Living in a motorhome in Palma: "It'll only get worse"
Comment
Cricket lovely cricket! - “It sounds like England”
“I find that rather like millions of other cricket lovers I prefer to listen to the matches on the radio via the BBC’s Test Match Special than live on the television...”
Frank Leavers 17/07/2023 13:32