A BOATING couple who have spent a decade travelling through Asia have returned home to Somerset and Wiltshire to capture the changing moods of the Kennet & Avon Canal through the seasons. Authors Sebastien and Louise Tickner have captured exclusively on film an intimate portrait of the boating community at the western end of the canal. It spans the open vistas of the Pewsey Vale to the wooded hills of the Limpley Stoke Valley, observing a community that is quite unlike any other. Louise said: “United by a stretch of water that shapes a communal identity, people of diverse ages and backgrounds have been drawn to a way of life by the beauty and the freedom that it has to offer.