Ex-Tech Mgr @IBM. Below average golfer. Singer @soulprovider_UK. Views my own. Good job really. Probably over at @garyrwilson.bsky.social now.
Manchester, UK
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OK I'm doing a thing. As part of my first year of retirement, I’ve embarked on a challenge that’s part rambling (fitness edition) and part rambling (writing edition).
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MTW Epilogue: The Bit After The End
A year, 2,876km, one obsessed spreadsheet, one clingy Apple Watch, Kazakhstan podcast listeners, and an awards show nobody asked for. Britain’s weirdest corners delivered. Project complete.
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Stage 52: The End of the Affair
A year, 2,876km, 52 stages — finished on a Norwegian mountaintop while my virtual self bounced to the Scillies on a Royal Mail ferry. One last bonus post next week.
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MTW Stage 51: Rock, Paper, Scillies
Witches, smugglers, granite cliffs, Longships storms, Penwith mood swings — plus actual pirates, operatic pirates, and copyright pirates.
Cornwall goes full cinematic chaos at the end of England.
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Stage 50: Fifty Shades of Clay
4 rounds of golf, hail in June, Strava art that melted Britain, and Camborne’s Puffing Devil — the world’s first steam vehicle, destroyed because the crew went for Christmas dinner. Cornwall: gloriously unhinged.
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More Than Words Stage 49: Moor Than Meets The Eye
Supplements, pill organisers, and Cornwall firing smugglers, Templars, panthers, ghost lore and Jamaica Inn at me like a historical pile‑on. Chaos, granite, folklore, repeat.
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MTW Stage 48: Devon Knows
Pixies at 40, sambuca‑powered golf, and Devon doing full medieval‑ghost‑castle‑folklore chaos. Castles brooding, birds predicting death, and a ghost coach that really needs an MOT.
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MTW Stage 47: Devon Sent
Spanish siestas so deep they require a full OS reboot, then straight into Devon — lace, hot pennies, Tudor chaos, eco‑tunnels, Canadian chapels, and a Labrador solving Victorian murder.
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More Than Words Stage 46: Somerset.
First powered aircraft (1848). A pub that declared independence from the UK. A church that wandered half a mile from its own village. An alpaca who closed a marriage proposal. Britain, basically.
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Stage 45: Grave New World — boys’ trip chaos, Roman‑ruin golf, and a virtual route packed with oxygen labs, BBC‑ready villages, medieval manors, Saxon churches, folklore, Babycham, and one very unlucky villa.
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Stage 44: UV‑glowing geology, the world’s oldest sweet shop, and Wiltshire doing its usual eccentricity speed‑run — dyed pigeons, medieval mega‑barns, Colditz escapes, and a village once immortalised by a Victorian photographer with a flair for drama.
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MTW Stage 43: At Longworth Last
55.5km, one van offering Flue Vaccinations, and a week where even Finmere’s rectory collapsed more often than my motivation. Featuring Shalstone’s swole redwood, Bicester’s discounted Dior, and Kidlington’s identity crisis.
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MTW Stage 42: Spanish sun and the Hallé weaponising nostalgia - followed by Northamptonshire’s polite chaos: boot‑maker battalions, Saxon skyscrapers on paperback foundations, archaeology avalanches, and Formula 1 born from hitting a sheep.
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Storm Dave, Spanish sun, Ryanair rib‑compression — plus Chatteris’ prehistoric coastline, Ramsey’s eel economy, Holme Fen’s sinking peat, Glatton’s meteorite, and a pub in Keyston wearing medals.
Stage 41 is chaos, sunshine, and spreadsheets.
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More Than Words - Stage 40: a man fell 18,000 feet without a parachute and sprained his leg, a village sits on a ridge the height of a biscuit packet, and Cambridgeshire once housed nuclear warheads between the cabbages. The Fens, everybody.
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MTW stage 39
South Norfolk this week: papal correspondence to a hamlet, Ayrton Senna in a Norwich bungalow, a spectral dog on night shifts, 17,000 acres of solar farms, and a planning row about horse cremation. Perfectly normal.
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More Than Words Stage 38: herrings, a clock that blanks Norfolk, a spider the size of a side plate, a Bronze Age gold disc from someone’s garden, and a 2,000km milestone that slipped past during a mojito. Britain is extraordinary. 🧭
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More Than Words: Stage 36
Norfolk: flatter than my handicap trajectory, and considerably more interesting than it looks. Medieval gold dreams, whale-powered fertiliser factories, and a village that formed a committee rather than accept last orders. 🦆
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MTW Stage 35: Only Fens 🌾
From Pennine punishment to Fenland flatness so extreme it feels theoretical. Barber endurance, Tebay financial ambush, sheep tech, lost credit, and an A17 allergic to corners. Overwhelmingly flat. Mildly unhinged.
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Stage 33 goes full Midlands chaos: museums that open less than Halley’s Comet, a 1,400‑yr‑old yew, Derby casually inventing everything, a ghost with livestock‑alarm‑clock energy & Gotham — the village that gaslit a king into birthing Batman.
Full saga👇
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