Dave Walker

Yes, indeed. We need things like this, I think.

#049 Ethan, do you want a sandwich? Thank you ITV Cycling / A year of Diagram Club on Substack

(Diagram Club 049, in which I write just a bit about this open.substack.com/pub/diagramc... )

You probably can’t read this without being a subscriber, but…

40 years of the Tour de France on Channel 4 then ITV, and it all ends this afternoon. And this year in particular has been exceptional. It’s been a part of my summer every year since I was a teenager, and I’m really sad about it.

I'm just not sure that I'm buying a house on Wombat Street (no offence to wombats, obviously)

I think 'no' is the answer. Matt has a business in South America, I think - if you look at his social accounts you'll see that he's there a significant amount of the time.

I take that point. This was drawn several years ago, just for info.

Cycling jerseys, drawing in black and white with text as follows: - 'Petro-chemical company causing climate change' - 'Country where prisoners are tortured' - 'Do some gambling' - 'State with terrible human rights record' - 'Oil company that downplayed the risks from climate change for three decades' - 'Sponsoring cycling makes us look green and ethical'

Such an important feature on TotalEnergies by ITV Cycling and Matt Rendell on the Tour de France rest day programme this evening. In support: a repost of this drawing.

All very well, but how do we know this isn’t MarshAI (who has clearly been trained on a no-booted man and a two-booted man and split the difference)

I hear you, though in a lot of places it is cars on the pavement that cause the blockages. But leaving that aside: But why are the bikes on the pavement? Why is the road space sacrosanct? Why can’t road space be taken away from cars for bike parking? That’s the point I’m trying to make here.

An excellent announcement of an announcement. If I’m so lucky I will prepare to make plans to be generally in, so you don’t have to resort to Safe Place / Preferred Neighbour

Black and white cartoon: Jerseys you may well spot within the peloton. 20 little pictures: - General classification (sometimes yellow) - Points (imagine a very green shade of white - Young rider (often white in real life too) - Mountains - Unsung domestique (pic is rider with jersey stuffed full of stuff) - Most stylish (complex pattern on jersey) - Beard - Left handed - Best recovery from last night's celebrations (half-full pint glass) - Battling through adversity (grimacing face) - Flamboyancy (ironically, usually a shade of beige) - Pluckiness (a particularly brave shade of orange) - Oh so close (big number 2) - Armchair expert - Keeping up with bunch despite great age (walking stick) - Lantern rouge (lantern) - Plat do jour - Best in show (rosette) - Floral jersey (awarded at random) - Today's raffle winner (pic of winning ticket)

As it's Tour de France season, a bike-racing cartoon from 'The Cycling Cartoonist': Jerseys you may well spot within the peloton'.

(Book currently on offer on the Bloomsbury site, by the way: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/search/?q...)

Selling a folding camper (have I already said this?). Pennine Sterling SE, location Essex. Ad is here on Facebook here but can tell you more if you’re not on fb. www.facebook.com/share/p/19zR...

Cartoon showing street scene with lots of cars, some of which are on or blocking pavements. One bike is also parked on a pavement. A couple are saying ‘Look - someone’s left a hire bike on the pavement’.

New drawing: Hire bike

Notes on this cartoon: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

Folding seat, described as telescopic, ‘impact resistance’, stable, anti-scratch… and ‘anti-seismic’

Folding seat, described as ‘anti-seismic’

Finally, an anti-seismic folding seat.

Thank you Liz - that’s lovely to hear and much appreciated.

Cat food (sparse) in bowls. Cat, black and white, looking up at camera hopefully. Feet we can only assume belong to the photographer.

When you ordered ages ago but the service is really slow.

Three paragraph breaks (hand-drawn). 1. Did you read that properly? (Tick box - ‘yes I did’). OK, please continue. 2. (Picture of a peninsula) Yes, it’s a peninsula. 3. Sign saying ‘No lines here please’. Line across page avoids the sign by wiggling around it.

I draw paragraph breaks for my newsletter every week. Here’s some from last week’s. It’s free to receive, which you could argue is reasonable value. diagramclub.substack.com

Thank you! (I realise the irony of asking this question during the working day, of course…)

Thinking I might draw a diagram about this (if that’s ok!)

Excellent stuff, Laura. You managed to communicate so much so clearly!

Yes, there really are a lot. The City, from here at least, almost looks sparsely populated in comparison

Six pictures of butterflies.

Butterflies seen on a stretch of footpath near Basildon, Essex, this morning. Are there more butterflies this year, or was I just lucky?

[I think they are, from top left: Comma, Peacock, Marbled white, Small copper, Hedge brown, Meadow brown.]

View of fields, and skyscrapers on horizon

View of Canary Wharf and the City of London from Langdon Hills, South Essex. It’s about 30 miles away, assuming the crow (which I realise we haven’t mentioned until now) drives down the A13.

I’ve tried to, I think. Anyway, I’m here!

#046 There will be a title, I would imagine Hurdle apology / Cracking the USA

Diagram Club #046 now posted:

- Cycling cartoon about close-passing
- Climate cartoon about signs that things aren’t OK
- Huge apology for last week’s hurdle diagram
- Taking steps to crack the USA
- Hand-drawn paragraph dividers and things like that

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

Thank you Stephen!

Cartoon: The church fete

Thank you. Yes, quite probably an inspiration

Buckets, labelled as follows: AI slop AI sludge AI dross AI swill AI mush AI gloop AI crud

Share your disdain. Been drawing on the topic, demonstrating reasonable proficiency with a thesaurus, if nothing else.

Twelve of England’s regional mayors back plan to create ‘national active travel network’ Exclusive: Unprecedented move to focus initially on helping children to walk, cycle or scoot to school safely

So pleased the government has listened. I'm totally claiming credit for this one.