Some random thoughts on: Exclamations marks, apps and other annoying stuff
It appears that these days cash money is of no use to anyone. Everything is expected to be paid for by flashing a bank card or App.
Tall and slim, or short and fat?
What do British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Ukrainian President Zelensky have in common?
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...”
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...
- Emergency declared on Ryanair flight bound for Palma from Dublin
- British tourists will be “tracked” while on holiday in Mallorca
- Mallorca ambassador Sir Bradley Wiggins has “lost” his Mallorca home
- Mallorca restaurants losing clients, tourists tighten their belts
- Mallorca hotelier - "I wouldn't go to a place where I perceived there to be animosity towards tourists"
Comment
Come on: Are you beach ready?
“If you are a tourist visiting this lovely island - a word to the wise; follow a group of Mallorcan day-trippers to the beach (as they always know the best places to go) and then move as far as you can away from them...”
Frank Leavers 04/08/2023 15:52