Cold. Dark.
10000 years ago, the English countryside was under a kilometre or two of ice.
I shall have to borrow a digital camera and take some snaps of the farm where I'm helping restore a 19thC water turbine. It'll make you sick to realise that it's only 5 minutes from my house by car, and a brisk 15 minute walk on foot.
Peter
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