upside down in cloud

We're moored up at Badger Bridge.

An early morning cruise; suddenly, I was aware of a large creature swimming alongside the boat.

Sitting out on the towpath with some folk from Australia, who keep bees near Melbourne and took a keen interest in the size and variety of the bumble bees that were busy along the hedge, I recalled this episode from Gilbert White’s Natural History of Selb…

Conkwell Woods are on the side of the Avon valley below Bradford on Avon.

I did this picture to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust.

Here's my new Somerset map.

I put a Swytch electric conversion kit on my bike last summer.

Happy St Brigid's Day!

Moored up at Diggers, between Bradford on Avon and Bath, in the Avon valley.

The 2026 calendar has arrived!

I've been busy (at least, what I call busy) getting the pictures together for next year's calendar; and at last I'd got enough, which is to say, twelve.

I'm not drawing the pictures for next year's calendar in any particular order, and the latest one is for December, as you can perhaps tell.

The town bridge in Newbury, built over the River Kennet, pre-dates the building of the lock that was the first to be built on the link between the Kennet and the Avon.

On Thursday, we went up to the North Yorks Moors for a bimble around the Rosedale valley, where some Andy Goldsworthy works have been installed in old buildings in a six mile circuit.

Moored up above Heathy Close lock, at Wootton Rivers, east of Pewsey, we watched a flycatcher dashing out from its perch in a tall ash tree, to grab insects out of the air, then return to its perch, easily identifiable by its upright posture and startling…

Midsummer in the Vale of Pewsey.

Here's the Elswick Hopper I got last week.

June in the Vale of Pewsey.

A while ago, Hamish Evans of the We Are Avon campaigning group asked if I'd be up for drawing a map of the Avon.

Frosty mornings and sunny days, this last week.

More torrential rain; and the Bristol Avon responds quickly to rainfall, and was soon in flood.

Here's a picture for Imbolc and St Brigid's Day.

Cruising down to Bath a fortnight back, I saw some of the damage caused by the recent storms; lots of trees had been blown down.

It was another icy morning.

...it gets very peaceful.

The new calendar is here!