Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up.
In 1998, amateur photographer Cliff Harris, aged 62, spent £5 at a car-boot sale, buying a box of photographic chemicals and paper, and 12 rolls of undeveloped film.
At home he found that eleven of the films had been light-damaged and couldn’t be developed.
Developing the twelfth, he was amazed to see a view he recognised, of a stretch of the Oxford canal. And even more amazed that in the foreground was himself: an image taken 50 years earlier as he was taking part in an angling competition.
Elsewhere, fire-fighters in Zurich, Switzerland, responded to an elderly lady’s call to say her television was on fire, only to find that it was tuned in to a German channel that displays a constant image of a fireplace in the early hours of the morning.
A spokesman for the fire-brigade said that the fire was extinguished with the push of a button.
Improve your vocabulary
Euneirophrenia: The peace of mind felt after a pleasant dream.
Fribbler: A man who professes profound infatuation with a woman to gain his wicked ways, but who has great difficulty, or is unwilling, to make a final commitment.
Apophthegms
Old people know more about being young than young people about being old.
Insanity is inherited – you get if from your kids.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
If nobody uses it, there’s a reason.
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