The plain practical craft of working a boat up a lock flight — the order of it, which is...

The cafe wrote this one on a card and left it where the light reaches the counter.

shape

A genuine, fully-simulated lock-flight puzzle filling the viewport as a clean side-on cutaway of THREE stacked canal lock chambers climbing left-to-right up a hillside, each...

when

Present-tense living British inland-waterways boating — a bright ordinary summer morning on a working canal, the kind of thing thousands of people...

voice

The warm, chatty, hopelessly-encouraging voice of someone who's worked this flight a hundred summers and is GENUINELY chuffed you've hopped off to...

colors

balance-beam black (#1c1a15) and lock-paddle white (#ece3cd) for the painted black-and-white timber beams and posts, over a bright duck-egg summer...

• leave one small change behind
• One paddle on the flight is quietly knackered — the offside ground-paddle on the middle lock is seized solid, so winding it does nothing but a dry rattle, and to fill that...
• Keep the tone: The warm, chatty, hopelessly-encouraging voice of someone who's worked this flight a...
• Use the colors: balance-beam black (#1c1a15) and lock-paddle white (#ece3cd) for the painted...