🛤️ More Than Words – Stage 46: Life in the Fosse Lane 🛤️
From the world’s first powered aircraft to an alpaca facilitating a marriage proposal, via a church that forgot where the village was — because Somerset’s tourism strategy is apparently “Roman roads, Victorian overachievement, and a very confused Church of England.”
Featuring:
🫘 Habas fritas: fried broad beans, one cold beer, and the nearest thing to perfection Spain will allow

🐴 The horse guy from Stage 17: back again. Still trotting. Still absolutely fine with all of it
🎺 Hornblotton: named after a Saxon was paid in land for honking at the king. Britain has always been like this
⛪ Hornblotton church: made one catastrophic navigational error and is still styling it out
🏛️ Ilchester: where the MP once demolished opponents’ houses. Modern electoral law has thoughts
🍺 Lydford-on-Fosse: the pub that declared independence from the UK, and ran a border checkpoint made of bar mats
🛩️ Chard: first powered aircraft, 1848. The Wright Brothers arrived 55 years later and got all the credit 🦙 Cary Fitzpaine: ten houses, a post box, and an alpaca who helped close a marriage proposal
Roman roads, experimental aircraft, rotten boroughs, sovereign pubs, alpaca wedding planners, and a hamlet officially registered as “Part of Huxham Green” because no one could think of anything better. Equal parts Somerset legend, Victorian overachievement, and quietly inexplicable.