#035 The very tall pile of newspapers

Cycling off road / Authentic historic Rye photograph

Hello, and welcome to Diagram Club, Issue #035.

This week: We’ve been away, so please forgive a slightly shorter email. There’s an off-road cycling cartoon, an adequate number of new paragraph dividers, and a fairly limited report from the town of Rye.

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Cycling cartoon of the week

This week we’re going off-road.

[Diagram info: Originally titled ‘Mountain biking’, a commission for adventure website Mpora, and appeared in The Cycling Cartoonist on page 133 [Tell me more about these books of yours].

Visit to Rye

Last week we went to Rye in East Sussex for a few nights. It’s one of our favourite places, and has the advantage over other favourite places in that it isn’t too far away.

It’s a historic kind of town, and with a few very subtle edits you wouldn’t know you were in a modern-day situation.

Rye with a few very subtle edits

I’m not going to bore you with too many holiday details. But the highlight, apart from wandering around the town, etc, was probably our visits to two nature reserves at Rye Harbour and Dungeness. I can now identify a sedge warbler and a whimbrel.

Here’s my Rye Instagram stories:

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Sort Out the House Week, continued

There’s no particular reason, beyond the actual definition, for a week to be seven days, so Sort Out the House Week has continued. I’ve been dealing with my paperwork, which sounds dull, and probably is, but is very necessary and will, I think, make a big difference to my working life.

Among the things that needed to be dealt with was The Very Tall Pile of Newspapers. Diagram Club Paid readers can read more about the reason for The Pile and what happened to it, below. It’s pretty gripping stuff.

Colour of the week (filler) and that sort of thing

Stored-newspaper pale yellow

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The plan is to be back soon with issue #036. Speak to you then.

Dave
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