Ikea stones and toes
Some people will go to extraordinary lengths for love [www.reuters.co.uk], I mean, this bloke was prepared to lose his fingers and toes trekking into Canada to see his net girlfriend. To be fair to the guy I don’t imagine that he planned to lose them all, but somehow I get the idea that planning wasn’t his strongest point…
In the UK, a sixty-one year old man has become the first to be completely cured of type 1 diabetes [news.bbc.co.uk] by virtue of a cell transplant. Others have had this procedure before but this one is the first to have resulted in the man not needing any more injections at all 
That’s pretty good going.
Nuclear Fusion please [news.bbc.co.uk]. At least Fusion power is coming along slowly. More power, please. Yes.
A supposedly cursed stone in Carlisle has been saved from destruction [www.reuters.co.uk]. Town Councillors rejected a motion to have the stone destroyed. Some people blame the stone - a piece of art from 2001 - for various misfortunes that have plagued the town. The big stone has an ancient curse carved into it. Groups defending the stone mentioned that it has a blessing in it, too. Quite odd, though.
After spending last weekend going back and forth to IKEA for various bits of furniture, news appears that the Prime Minister of Norway has accused IKEA of being sexist [www.reuters.co.uk], because they only include male figures building their flat-pack furniture. I’ve not really noticed this, but, looking at some of our instructions it does appear to be true. Ho-hum.
