🗺️ 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.

🧭 More Than Words – Episode 38: The Sandbank Redemption 🧭
From dodging airport staff in Sharm who looked personally offended by the existence of tourists, to standing at the literal edge of Britain where the view is mostly industrial piping and a very tall turbine. Majestic.
Featuring:
🏌️ A 2,000km milestone passed quietly while attention was elsewhere
🕌 Al-Mustafa Mosque: genuinely breathtaking architecture, generously budgeted toilets
🌅 Ness Point, Lowestoft: the first bit of Britain to catch the sunrise every morning
🐟 Great Yarmouth: wet sand to medieval herring superpower to frozen food pioneer
🦆 Worlingham’s duck decoy: luring waterfowl to their doom through elaborately landscaped treachery
🕰️ Beccles church clock: refusing to show the time on the Norfolk-facing side. Not a malfunction. A position.
🥩 Gillingham Hall: Francis Bacon developed his theories here, and then let a refrigerated bird on a hillside have the last word
🕷️ Barnby Marshes: conservationists successfully bringing back a water-sprinting, pond-hunting spider the size of a side plate - thanks for that
🪙 Kirby Cane: a Bronze Age gold disc, a suspicious garden story, and a courtroom date in 2027 — archaeology meets true crime
History, herrings, spiders with attitude, and a gold disc that probably shouldn’t have been in anyone’s flowerbed.

🏞️ More Than Words – Stage 37: A Broad Church 🏞️
From Norfolk’s flatlands to its theological, agricultural, and occasionally explosive history, this stage is basically a guided tour of a county that wakes up every morning and chooses eccentricity.
Featuring:
🧀 The Full Fondue — the only triathlon you’ll ever need
🌴 Sharm el‑Sheikh backroads — walking laps like a tourist trapped in a screensaver
🍺 Little Fransham — a pub named after football teams and a font that predates most modern plumbing
🛕 Wendling — medieval monks, WWII bombers, and turkey sheds; the Norfolk Circle of Life
🦌 Dereham — deer in the name, miracles in the well, poets having a full emotional reboot
⛪ Hockering — medieval church, RAF bomb stores, and trees attempting a coup d’état
💰 Honingham — Boudicca’s emergency savings account, still unclaimed
🚜 Easton — agricultural Glastonbury: prize bulls, neon slushies, and tractor choreography
🐄 Bawburgh — barefoot saint, miraculous oxen, and a church wall that said “nope”
📜 Little Melton — medieval gossip murals and the only Norfolk school the Luftwaffe actually hit
🌉 Cringleford — a bridge that’s carried queens, rebels, and now people furious about cul‑de‑sacs
📚 Norwich — medieval literary influencer energy; Julian of Norwich walked so Partridge could run
It’s travel with saints, rebels, bombers, hoards, miraculous livestock, agricultural festivals, and a bridge that’s seen more drama than most capital cities. Equal parts historic, eccentric, and quietly unhinged.

🐳 More Than Words – Stage 36: Coast of Living Crisis 🐳
From whale-powered bone mills to a medieval pedlar who dreamed his way to a pot of gold, because Norfolk’s tourism strategy is apparently “flat horizons, Viking place names, and a surprising amount of whale fat.”
Featuring:
🌊 Sutton Bridge: three attempts at crossing the same river
🦅 A man who shot wildfowl for sport, then had a change of heart so dramatic it needed a seatbelt
🐳 Whale carcasses hauled upriver to become fertiliser — remote location chosen specifically so the smell was someone else’s problem
✈️ RAF Narborough: once Britain’s largest airfield, later a barn
💀 King’s Lynn: Hanseatic powerhouse, medieval port, and the town that produced two men who signed a king’s death warrant
🏺 The man who found Tutankhamun
🍺 A village that: lost its last pub, formed a committee, and got it back — rural Norfolk draws the line at not being able to walk for a pint
It’s travel with dyed pigeons, medieval barns, RAF ghosts, whale mills, and landscapes so flat they could double as spirit levels. Equal parts scenic, surreal, and agriculturally stern.

🌾 More Than Words – Episode 35: Only Fens 🌾
From Pennine reservoir punishment to Fenland flatness so extreme it questions the Earth’s curvature, Episode 35 is what happens when geography gives up halfway through.
Featuring:
🐕 Dexter: convinced all dogs are beatable (situationally incorrect)
💈 Barber trips: now classified as endurance sport
🥧 Tebay Services: farm shop or organised financial ambush
🌧️ Keswick: outdoor shops with a town attached
🌾 The Fens: land on loan from the sea
🐑 Ropsley: sheep-washing infrastructure, peak innovation
👑 Threekingham: three kings, or just one bloke called Tric
⚓ Matthew Flinders: mapped Australia, missed all the credit
💣 Holbeach: dog walking, but with live bombing practice
📏 A17: straight, bleak, and morally opposed to corners
It’s travel with windburn, medieval admin, lost treasure, aggressive flatness, and a landscape held together by pumps and optimism.

🌗 More Than Words – Episode 34: Angels and Demons 🌗
From haunted halls to cold medieval service stations, episode 34 is what happens when English history quietly loses the plot.
Featuring:
🏚️ Clifton Hall: ghosts, stains, and a man who repossessed himself
⚰️ Wilford gazebo: scenic views, optional corpses
🍖 Captain Deane: butcher → cannibal → Russian navy → retiree
📬 Gamston: cc’d into a 12th-century papal email chain
📏 Fosse Way: Roman road, still aggressively straight
🔥 Bingham: surgeon arsonist, then 30 years in a shed
🧙 Bottesford: witchcraft, sorcery, and England’s bleakest bake-off
🎭 Laurel & Hardy: Christmas in a Vale pub, obviously
🐝 Grantham: Newton, Thatcher, and a pub that can sting you
🥶 Cold Harbour: medieval Travelodge, but worse
It’s travel with ghosts, cannibals, witch trials, economic policy, and a final stop that legally counts as shelter. Equal parts historic, unhinged, and mildly frostbitten.