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!
Confidential: My family's match of the day - Football or tennis?
What do you think was the most exiting part of Frank Leavers' sporting day?
Frank Talking: Some home thoughts from abroad
Has anyone else noticed that our television screens are nowadays filled with programmes regarding almost all parts of Britain’s countryside and coasts?
Summer Blog: Can you please put yourself away - Thank You!
"I was persuaded to go along to the local swimming Lido - Big mistake!"
Confidential: An Indian summer? Plus - M&S abandon suits and mucky masks!
Why did this improvement in the weather always turn-up just as all the kids went back to school after the long summer break even my childhood?
Frank Talking: Let's get ready to mumble!
Is it true that we Brits still pay much-too-much attention as to how a person speaks?
Summer Blog: Garden centres: Be still my beating heart!
What did garden centres do to Frank Leavers? He visited three different garden centres about ten times in total.
Confidential: Bank Holiday blues - Plus, are men pulling their weight?
Frank Leavers' UK Bank Holiday weekend didn't go as expected.
Frank Leavers: Keeping it in the family!
"I don’t think that we become bad tempered per-se as we get older, do we?"
Frank talking: Has work become redundant?
Frank Leavers coments on the serious shortage of labour in the UK at the moment. Was it as unforeseen as we are told?
Summer Blog: After a day at the beach - the dance of the seven veils!
So my friends, how would you explain this activity to a visiting Martian?
Confidential: Telephone ‘scam’ artists - Plus, noticing the differences between here and there!
"You learn something new everyday don’t you?"
Frank Leavers: Speaking ‘Spanglish’ and other linguistic traumas!
Frank have been displaying some Mallorcan acquired driving habits in southern England...
Summer Blog: Let’s go camping shall we? Thanks, but no thanks!
"What to do? I hate camping, always have, always will"
Confidential - the new normal: ‘Flexible working equals flexible living’ and other challenges
How will we emerge from the current set of social circumstances?
Frank Leavers: This Olympic sporting life and other mysteries!
Has the inclusion of sports in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics gone too far?
Summer Blog: I’m out and about in Blighty!
"We have yet to even start but I fear that the die-is-cast for the rest of the trip already"
Confidential: There's no place like home, wherever you are!
"I have already noticed a good few differences in the way things happen here as opposed to Mallorca."
Frank Leavers: Is it possible to win or lose with good grace, yet still care?
Has sport become soulless? Frank Leavers reflects on the slow death of sporting heroism and unselfishness.
Summer Blog: My gym shame and other embarrassments!
Find out what happened during Frank Leavers' first experience in a gym.
- Britons cash in on the outgoing Golden Visa in Spain to beat the 90 day rule
- After a holiday in Mallorca Richard Gere moves to Spain
- Laura Hamilton: “I’ve always loved Mallorca, I just wished I’d bought here earlier...”
- Russian-owned Black Pearl in Mallorca
- Noel Gallagher sold his Ibiza home because of his neighbour - James Blunt
Comment
Summer Blog: The deafening sound of summer!
Mallorcans nor the Spanish in general, ever do anything quietly do they?
Frank Leavers 16/09/2021 12:54