“Scotland must have been a bleak place 14,000 years ago.”
Bleak 14,000 years ago, as compared to something-other-than-bleak now?
RE: Bleak
Clicked SunkenCiv’s 15th Century skelligan link, above, glanced over the article, and then noticed the adjacent list of small-story headlines:
“Union at odds with council over fortnightly bin collections,
Aberdeen to get fortnightly refuse collections,
Daycare closure provokes backlash against council,
Aberdeen man may have died from cold weather,
Closure-threatened factory plans to double sales,
Aberdeen City Council confirms 400 jobs to go,
BP launch investigation into helicopter crash”
I mean, except for the helicopter crash, and the use of “fortnightly”, those leads coulda come from my good, old, regressed, recessed, “rocks, rattlesnakes, and Republicans” north-central Pennsylvania home.