Archive for the Category Diversions + Entertainment

16.10.09 | Comments Off

Chinese Lantern Mistaken for UFO’s

Chinese lantern seems to be the most probable culprit behind last week’s UFO video mystery.Vocalist from Harborough Robin Maughan took an object on movie over Western Avenue park in the sky in Harborough Last week on mondayThe story appeared last week in Harborough Mail, half-a-dozen calls to the office by readers who had also seen […]

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07.10.09 | Comments Off

Satellite TV Meets the Internet

When you access your DVR via the internet, you can do just about anything you can do with it while you are sitting in front of it with remote in hand. You can set up programs to record, review the programs you have recorded, delete programs that have been recorded, and with the addition of some optional equipment you can even watch programming from your DVR as well.

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Did you know the probability of scooping the Euro Lotto jackpot is a remote 1 in seventy six million but the likelihood of winning a cash prize is a somewhat decent one : twenty four. If the “jackpot” is not won in a given lotto draw, it is carried over to the next week that will result in an ever increasing jack-pot prize. New regulations brought in on the 09/02/07 restrict the amount of successive “rollovers” to eleven, with the “jackpot” rolling down to smaller prize levels on the eleventh lotto draw if the prize is not collected.

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02.09.08 | Comments Off

HDTV Exposed

The rate of change in the world of technologycan make blinking a real concern if you are a genuine technofile. To the average Joe, HDTV is not something that has even entered the dreamscape.

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03.04.08 | Comments Off

How to Make Camping Shoot-the-Chute

Shoot-the-Chute
A “Shoot-the-Chute” is great fun and one should be built in every camp visit and “Swimming Hole.” The one described below has stood the test of several years in many different camp sites.
The plan drawn is for a chute 40 feet long, 3 feet wide and 18 feet high. These dimensions can be changed in […]

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