🌬️⚙️ More Than Words – Episode 21: Grill, Interrupted ⚙️🌬️


From beetling mills to barbecue aviation incidents, Stage 21 proves that winter exercise in Britain is mostly about accepting defeat and going indoors.


Featuring:



🪵 Linen being hammered into submission 


🧏 Workers inventing sign language because the machines wouldn’t shut up


🪦 Bronze Age Airbnbs


🐇 The Creggan White Hare: folklore, freedom, and greyhounds with trust issues


🗺️ The Lough Cluster: ten lakes, one map, zero chance of finding the right one


🏎️ Stock-car racing in rural Tyrone


🍺 Omagh’s oldest pub: whiskey, stout, and booking transatlantic passage mid-pint


🌬️ Wind turbines as weather apps


🪨 Lack: a village named after a missing stone, committing fully to the bit


Plus:



🌪️ Storm Claudia


🔥 A barbecue that tried to achieve flight


🏃‍♂️ Gym kilometres that count technically, but not emotionally

More Than Words – Stage 20: Show Me The Moneys 💷🏌️

From prize money to place names that sound like failed hedge funds, Stage 20 goes inland — and immediately trips over its own wallet.

Featuring:

🏌️ Nearest-the-Pin finals: unintended cardio and The Fourth Shank Redemption

📍 Ballymena: Paisley, Neeson, and a particular set of mills

🍺 Whitesides Corner: crossroads and cross drinkers

🏉 Moneyglass: sporting talent factory, and a burning Winterfell

🗺️ Toome / Toomebridge: one village, two names, thousands of confused eels

🐟 Lough Neagh: giant legends, algae soup, and an aristocrat landlord

📚 Castledawson: million dollar frogspawn

🌳 Moneymore: hedge funds funds hedges

🦠 Typhoid Mary — cooking with consequences

It’s travel with golf-induced wheezing, inland Northern Ireland, failed uprisings, burning TV sets, haunted mansions, and a brain that absolutely cannot be trusted.

⛴️ More Than Words – Episode 19: Ferry Tales ⛴️

From radioactive seabeds to lighthouse love stories, because Northern Ireland’s tourism strategy is apparently “ferries, folklore, and a power station that photobombs every coastal panorama.”

Featuring:

💣 Beaufort’s Dyke: Britain’s least reassuring lost‑property office

💡 East Maidens Lighthouse: Victorian Tinder

🏖️ Browns Bay: photographs like the Riviera, swims like an ice bath

⚡ Ballylumford Power Station: Northern Ireland’s caffeine machine

🪨 Ballylumford Dolmen: the world’s oldest patio set

🏰 Kilwaughter Castle: collapsing with gothic enthusiasm

🔋 The Battery: hilltop branding exercise

It’s travel writing with radioactive trenches, semaphore courtships, seaside hypothermia, and castles collapsing photogenically. Equal parts historic, surreal, and suspiciously queue‑shaped.