I'm an Arborist (tree surgeon) in the UK, 46 and still curious about the world and what's in it. I live in Norfolk, England (not Virginia) and write now and again when the mood takes me. I'm interested in trees, obviously, fungi and history. You can contact me treedixy@hotmail.co.uk
I'm divorced with two teenage daughters, now there's a challenge. What else can I say, I'm more of a god-hater than a true atheist, I like cooking and drinking wine, eating and physical activity, music and laughter...enough already. Go read someone else's profile, go on, go... shoo....be off with you nosey parker.

My passion is ...

Trees

I know too much about ...

Trees again.

My parents always told me ...

Eat your cabbage, otherwise you can't have pudding.

My childhood ambition ...

Oddly was to be a tramp, or hobo I think you Americans say.

My favorite memory ...

All the times I laughed.

Why I write ...

To express a thought more clearly than I could speak.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Hemmingway, Stephen Fry.

My first job ...

Mole Catcher.

My best moment ...

Becoming a dad

My inspiration ...

Boudicca, AD64 Norfolk Queen of the Icene, slayer of Romans.

Sciences > Anthropology The evolution of humans

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Did cave men tell Jokes?
Please indulge me for a moment in a potted history. There is plenty of evidence that the last ice age lasted from about 23,000 years ago to around 8,000 years ago. As the last ice sheets subsided in Europe and the people who followed the retreating glaciers northward; those hunter-gatherers were (most scholars agree) modern men, Homo sapiens sapiens just like us. Some argue that modern men were living in Britain even before the ice age began 30,000 years ago but due to the obvious nip in the air were forced to take a long holiday in France for15,000 years.
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