the 2025 Kennet and Avon Canal calendar

The new calendar is here!

This year I've gone back to people on the canal; so there's incidents from daily life and history, like the workboats - here's John Knill in 1950, delivering a cargo to Newbury; and Ishtar, keeping boaters supplied with coal last winter; and the CRT paddle boat, dashing off to clear vegetation in the Long Pound. And a couple of cross-section pictures, which are always a fun look at boatlife on the inside. A few anthropomorphic rats have sneaked in, too. What else? Crofton pumping station, the Aldermaston tea shop, Tyle Mill and the Mikron Theatre boat...

You can get one from my Etsy shop, or Devizes Books; or directly from me if you can find my boat, which will be easy at the end of this month because there's the big floating Christmas fair in Bradford on Avon, on 30 Nov-1 Dec.

cross-section of a narrowboat

Another picture for the calendar. This is a cross-section of a narrowboat, chugging along the Vale of Pewsey with Woodborough Hill in the background. That's a Russell Newbery engine, sort of, beacuse it's a bit more picturesque than my Beta Tug engine. And the boatperson's cabin is rather more ideal than my own cluttered and squalid one. Art, see.

I think that makes nine pics I've got now. And as people usually demand at least twelve months in their calendars, I'd really better pull my finger out, hadn't I? Anyway, it was fun to draw this one. Particularly fun, that is. If it weren't fun, I wouldn't be doing it, after all.