A cartoon: Cycling on a budget. Summarising just a small amount of the info you'll find on budgetcycling.uk. (Image from the book 'From A to B', by Dave Walker, published by Bloomsbury.)

Restarting this little project.

The fitted sheet: specifically designed to very nearly fit, but not quite. From the book Household Problems: Domestic Incompetence in Diagrams. Which is [capitalisation] AVAILABLE NOW - amzn.to/4pSA2ym and the other Amazons.

Thanks to Liz - that’s so nice to hear.

Thanks to those who have been in touch to say they enjoyed receiving the book yesterday. Here’s evidence (or an elaborately-constructed hoax) demonstrating that at least five copies exist. Also, a drawing about loading the dishwasher. If you’d like to buy it (and please do), there’s a link below.

To all friends, supporters, and both people shown this randomly by the algorithm: Merry Christmas! Here’s to ongoing adventures on two (or any other number of) wheels. From all at Diagram HQ (me).

Never been less qualified to gatecrash the #clergymaltclub hashtag, but… seems a shame to break the tradition in year 10, so here we are. 0% these days. Hello everyone.

Ten strategies for finding the item that isn’t in the place you 100% definitely left it. From my book Household Problems: Domestic Incompetence in Diagrams. (Still, at this moment, available for Christmas delivery: amzn.to/4pSA2ym )

News! A new book. Household Problems: Domestic Incompetence in Diagrams. It’s a collection of more than 44 cartoons, as seen in my Diagram Club newsletter. A bit late in the year? Sure, but still available for Christmas delivery. Amazon UK link: amzn.to/4pSA2ym (available internationally too)

I can think of 3-5 reasons you might have cause to strongly object to this, but anyway, this is my Christmas carols Spotify playlist (misc genres): open.spotify.com/playlist/6Qn...

Diagram Club #066. - Bicycles for sale - Cafe news: I have my annual appraisal - Santa cartoon - Misc paragraph breaks (hand-drawn) - etc open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

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

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...

Drive-through coffee at The Cafe.

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

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

This morning at The Cafe.

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...

Walking this afternoon. Langdon Hills, Essex.

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...

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.

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’.

Could do with some tech help from anyone who knows about iPads. Does anyone know how I can disable this tiny floating keyboard and force the iPad to use the full-sized one? Google says I can pinch it to the large one - that’s incorrect unfortunately. It would make a big difference to me whilst away.

Had the best day cycling in and exploring Taiyuan, China, with a brilliant bunch of people from an environmental organisation. A few photos. The posters are advertising an event for the launch of the Chinese translation of my book, The Cycling Cartoonist, on Wednesday.

Newsletter from China: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

This wasn’t when was planned for yesterday, but can’t complain as far as replacement activities go: Visit to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.

(1/3) Hello all. A little update, as I know some of you are following my progress in China / cheering me on. The photo above was taken at last night’s rehearsal for the TEDx talk. However: sadly the actual TEDx event today had to be cancelled, for reasons that I’m not going to elaborate on here.

Rehearsal for tomorrow.

First time seeing a physical copy of this today.

Been cycling today. This is the Greenway, a kind of cycling M25 that circumnavigates Chengdu, China. Opinion: this is what cycling infrastructure should look like.

Hello world. I’m in China!

From my newsletter (diagramclub.substack.com ): A drawing with title ‘Economic growth’.

Anyone print their own greetings cards, and able to advise?

Possibly incoherent rantings, but anyway: paragraph break for my newsletter that turned into a diagram: The new even- thinner mobile phone.

Travel insurance. Sobering to read the list of terrible things that could befall me, including Natural Disasters, or Golf.

Diagram Club #054 is available: - News about my China trip - Provocative meal-deal diagram - Cafe News: A volunteer moves some henges - Hand-drawn paragraph dividers - Colour of the week (filler) open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

News. I’m going to China in September. Which, thinking about it, is the current month. Explanation in my newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

Butterfly field has become Blackberry field. 28 miles* from Tower Bridge**. * Approx, depending ** I had to pick somewhere

My letter in today’s Times:

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

New diagram: Pep talk

Diagram Club number 050: - Celebratory bunting - Cycling cartoon: activity trackers - Some outdoor drawings - Diagram about milk - Complaint about a ferry where it’s cheaper to take a car - Hand-drawn paragraph dividers, as always 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.