Bad hair day?

Not mine, as I don't have enough to have any sort of hair day (perhaps a hair second, I suppose). I subscribe to an email list called "Freecycle" where people who have stuff to get rid of that's still useful and people who want something that someone else might have post and exchange their stuff to keep it out of the landfill.

Under "Miscellaneous" the following was posted to give away today:

Barbie Stuff - Have 1 more medium box of Barbie & other similar dolls and clothes. OK conditition, good for play, some Barbie "hair" accidents.

I have a vision of Ken as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street standing over a seated Barbie who is waiting for a "haircut".

Today's Confectionary URL

And how many of us would give our pancreases away to be in this man's shoes?

Note especially the very British thoroughness of the story, in the last line. Admirable. I wish I could eat a chocolate bar these days...

Today's Potable URL

Still at the BBC, we find that a sewage-polluted river in India is thought to have changed just a bit, here. I shan't be testing the waters, you?? Just goes to show you that images of the Blessed Virgin in chocolate and on toasted cheese sandwiches are part of a phenomenon common to many religions.