🗺️ More Than Words – Stage 41: Post Script 🗺️
From Storm Dave to Spain’s early‑season sun, and from Chatteris’ prehistoric coastline to Holme Fen’s subterranean geography lesson, Stage 41 delivered weather, wetlands, and one man’s ongoing feud with Ryanair’s seat pitch.
Featuring:
• 🌪️ Storm Dave: a storm named after the bloke who cleans your gutters
• 🏖️ Spain in April: promenades, pine dunes, and locals treating “closed due to collapse” signs as polite suggestions
• 🏝️ Chatteris: the Skegness of prehistory, but with worse drainage
• 📜 Ramsey Abbey: medieval powerhouse funded partly in eels
• 🐉 Great Fen: re‑wetting the landscape one apologetic hectare at a time
• 📉 Holme Fen: the UK’s lowest point, where the ground is literally leaving
• ☄️ Glatton meteorite: Cambridgeshire’s most surprising garden visitor
• ✈️ RAF Molesworth: Cold War chain‑link chic
• 🍺 Keyston: a pub so decorated it makes other pubs look like they’ve given up
A landscape sinking under the weight of its own history, a recycled monastery, a meteorite in the onion bed, and a medieval skeleton with better housing than most renters. Onward.

🌾 More Than Words – Stage 40: There Will Be Mud 🌾
From a Norfolk car park with a colourful reputation to a Cambridgeshire field that once housed nuclear missiles pointed at Moscow — via a man who survived a three-mile freefall and got away with a sprained leg. The Fens contain multitudes.
Featuring:
🔍 Two Mile Bottom: brutally literal name, surprisingly lively car park
🌲 Thetford Forest: what happens when Britain runs out of wood and panics
🥶 Santon Downham: holds both the UK’s lowest June temperature and a July record of 39°C, because commitment
🪨 Brandon: supplied one million musket flints a month to defeat Napoleon, then quietly ran out of customers
✈️ RAF Lakenheath: a self-contained slice of America in Suffolk where F-35s rehearse the apocalypse
🕷️ The Fen Tigers: the original NIMBYs, but with arson
💧 Prickwillow: a village kept above water by a 25-tonne pump, sitting on a ridge the height of a packet of biscuits
🪂 Flight Sergeant Alkemade: jumped from a burning Lancaster at 18,000 feet without a parachute. Sprained his leg. Went home.
☢️ Mepal: beet fields by day, nuclear warheads by night
🐾 Clement Freud: grandson of Sigmund, Liberal MP, dog food spokesman, pub landlord — the unconscious really does lead you somewhere unexpected
Eels as currency, sandstorms in Suffolk, a rear gunner defying gravity, and nuclear missiles under the cabbage fields. Just another week on the road.

🗺️ More Than Words – Episode 39: The Route of the Matter 🗺️
From a papal letter addressed to a hamlet to a planning dispute about horse cremation — because south Norfolk does not do things by halves.
Featuring:
🚫 Ellingham: the only village on the route that didn’t even get a breakup text
📜 Hedenham: a papal bull (no cows involved)
👿 Woodton: a church window featuring the devil, because why not
🐕 Black Shuck: spectral dog still clocking night shifts on Hempnall’s B-roads
☀️ 17,000 acres of Norfolk solar farms: the county has apparently been designated a giant phone charger
👻 Quidenham: Norfolk’s Most Haunted franchise in full swing
🏎️ Snetterton: Ayrton Senna’s home circuit, when he wasn’t living in a Norwich bungalow
🍳 Larling: three miles of tarmac turned into Continental Europe’s largest roadside stir-fry
⛪ Roudham: a planning row about horse cremation that nobody expected
🎯 75% milestone reached — the goal gradient effect is real; the shoulder injury sustained during eight hours of sleep is also very real
South Norfolk turned out to be equal parts Domesday archaeology, spectral dog encounters, renewable energy controversy, motorsport history, and horse-cremation planning admin. Perfectly normal week.