For the last eight weeks I’ve been feeding you a steady dose of writing advice. But that’s not really what these pieces are for. If you want writing tips, there are a hundred – hey, who am I kidding – there are probably tens of thousands of writing tips online. No, what I originally set out to do every Monday was to conjure out of my experience – either cruising canals and rivers on our narrowboat, Patience, or more latterly from the deck of our houseboat on Priory Lake – vignettes or...