The cyanope type (brown eyes, blond hair) and the glaucope type (blue eyes, black hair) probably arose independently as mutations, the glaucope being earlier in the European population, i.e., the mutation to blue eyes probably occurred before the mutation to fair hair.

Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes / The image he himself has wrought.

Then I went for a ride on the back of a motor bicycle and after that I went out on the sea in a titsy little boat to look in a lobster pot.

He had no idea why the story made news; it did not seem at all newsworthy to him.