Dave Walker

Thanks Rosie. Thank you! The demand for 2009 calendars has been quite overwhelming, so I need to work out how many I have, etc - I will be in touch this coming week.

Graphic showing items available in the Dave Walker Shop. There’s a Christmas t-shirt and jumper with Santa on, a children’s t-shirt with a cycling heart design, and a bicycle mug saying ‘this machine fights climate change’.

Without wanting to overwhelm you with commercial announcements: This weekend isn’t the absolute worst time to buy someone a gift from my shop, as there’s free UK delivery. davewalkershop.com

#065 In case 2009 ever comes around again Bicycle drive-through / The stationery I use

Diagram Club #065:

- In Cafe News: trial run of a cycling drive-through
- My daily stationery items
- Can snowmen ride bicycles?
- Visit to the Stockroom of Doom
- It’s the free delivery weekend in my shop

Free to read here: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

Sorry Grace. It's so horrible.

Happy birthday Sara. And good work, said man

Man on bike collects a coffee from a tray held by member of Cafe staff

Drive-through coffee at The Cafe.

DW's annual reply.
- Who got icing sugar on my beanie?
- Are those berries food safe?
- Footwear to food. Would be happier with greater distance
- Are we looking at a floor or table? Uncertainty, etc
- Guessing we're just accepting sticky mincemeat fingers

printer saying ' sorry mate - can't be bothered'

Oh it's infuriating isn't it. I currently use an old printer while the highly-recommended one we bought sits downstairs functioning as a large and expensive A4 storage box.

Graphic saying 'New at dvaewalkershop.com'. There's a picture of a Christmas t-shirt and jumper, a t-shirt for children, and a mug. All of the products have cycling cartoons on them, such as Santa riding a bike, or bicycle design with text 'this machine fights climate change'.

Without trying to be too Black Friday about things, (but, let's face it, failing), today's the ideal day to buy someone a cycle cartoon gift from my shop. There's free UK postage and 10% off with code TAKE10 davewalkershop.com

Drawing, with text 'I use occasional tables all of the time'. Picture of three black and white hand-drawn tables.

Diagram Club no 64, published today. It's every week, free to read, and almost certainly the best thing I do. If you wanted to subscribe that would be lovely, but take a look and see what you think: diagramclub.substack.com/p/064-the-ul...

Good tip on the card blanks - thank you.

(Bike price - it’s so tricky, isn’t it. Got one or two I need to sell when I can force myself to get around to it)

Black and white cartoons showing the different stages of the growth of a laundry pile. By the end it is very big.

Household Problems, as seen in my newsletter (diagramclub.substack.com since you ask) every week. This one: The laundry. As always, unrelated to anything happening in my real actual life.

Various models wearing jumpers and t-shirts featuring a cycling Santa design

Far too early to be talking about Christmas jumpers, I realise, but for those planning ahead: Cycling Santa Christmas jumpers and t-shirts davewalkershop.com/christmas-co...

New diagram for @cyclinguk.bsky.social

I think I knew they were vegetables, but if confronted by (say) a harvest festival selection on a workbench I'd struggle to construct one.

Black and white drawing with title 'What your leaning fence says about you'. Fence depicted, with different levels of lean: Slight lean. Caption: Of course everything's fine - why wouldn't it be? Medium lean. Caption: Just about holding things together Extreme lean. Caption: Oh no

A new series of my Household Problems drawings (as seen in my newsletter every week). This one: What your leaning fence says about you.

#061 Please assemble in the telephone box I don't know why your houseplants die / White paint (waste of)

Latest newsletter posted. In Diagram Club #061:
- Why houseplants die (no idea)
- Photographs from my week (annotated)
- Why painted cycle lanes aren’t generally worthwhile
- Hand-drawn paragraph breaks as usual
- [Paid] Updates from China

diagramclub.substack.com/p/061-please...

#060 The terrifying twig tree Patio irregularities / Cup of tea?

This week’s newsletter:
- Bicycle / tea drawing
- Halloween feature (of sorts)
- Paving slabs (various problems)
- (Paid only) What I’ve been doing this week

open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

Picture of iPad on table on which is written ‘drawing a diagram’. There’s a labelled cup of coffee. Though the window a group of people is vaguely visible, with text saying ‘foraging group’. There’s also an annotated bicycle.

This morning at The Cafe.

Pictures of Southend with hand-written labels 1. Pier with shelter in foreground 2. Container ship with man doing boat things in foreground 3. Cafe view 4. Seafront view

Diagram Club #059. It’s my Substack newsletter, containing, this week: Annotated photos (below), bicycle cartoon, Cafe news, Household Problems (season two), and all the usual features. open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

Picture of cafe with notebook and mug. Text says ‘hoping to be back with diagrams before too long’.

Four pictures - Hedgerow with sloes - feather - scene with distant skyscrapers - man

Walking this afternoon. Langdon Hills, Essex.

#057 From China, part two: Taiyuan Making movies / The book event

Part 2 of my visit to China. Welcomed incredibly warmly, amazing book launch event, filming the TEDx talk that couldn’t happen, finding my second-favourite cafe in the world (etc). open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

Thank you. I was worried photos were too small and newsletter too long, so this is very good to hear. Hotpot: like all the food I had there it was wonderful.

Thank you Chris. I’m very fortunate to have had the opportunity.

Thank you Graeme - really appreciate this.

These are lovely notices - thank you. Ideally to open the door you’d be a trustee in the choir with particular responsibility for the gas meter, I guess.

Scenes: podium on stage, man in front of camera, two men with a book, man with bicycle in background

For anyone waiting for
my newsletter- lots to write about, but wanted to focus on being here in China while I still could. So planning to send it in a day or two when I’m home.

English text from a translation app: ‘i have an unusual request - I need to take the picture out of this frame as the frame is too big to take on the plane tomorrow. but i need a screwdriver to undo it. do you have any idea how I could find one?’ Then same in Chinese

This sums up my experience of China. Young man on the hotel reception desk read this, took me out of the hotel to a corner shop, bought me a screwdriver, and said ‘ this is my gift to you’.

Hmmm - suspicious indeed. (Not that I quite understand it…)