BBC Breakfast #Postcards My grandad emigrated to Australia in the 60s. He started my postcard collection. It's a wonderful pastime

Have you ever noticed that people dressed better in the past? Even in the summer, when it was scorching hot? Why is this? 🧵

A goldsmith walks into a room filled with Italy’s greatest architects. He tells them he can build a dome without scaffolding. They all laugh, he walks out... Three years later, he gets the contract. A 🧵 on the greatest engineering marvel of the Renaissance.

Kate Elliott Certainly there's something more mesmerising about those who were famous when you were just a young thing. So much new talent of course which is great but I think it's to do with the awe you felt being so young yourself & the passing of these giants makes you feel nostalgic

My latest cartoon for Guardian Books

The blessed rain drizzles my face Gently, gently. Too little to quench my thirst But bountiful To those smaller beasts.

Morning sun pearls.

Apples galore Windfall's store

Beach hut

Heading towards Edinburgh on the train. What a route this is. For those of you coming to the Edinburgh TV Festival, I’m taking part in a session at 10 tomorrow morning.

Autumn in mid August? The exceptional spring & summer drought is having a clear impact. This was Gledhow in Leeds today

Back in Shetland mainland. Had the front seat next to the pilot.

If this was the late 18th century I’d be setting up my easel right now. #Vesuvius

Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.

A fantastic write up in Now Then Magazine 👇

Early stroll. A tree like a hyper-realist painting of a tree. A man in vivid hi-vis walks by. Three black buckets in a skip. I accidentally kick a can percussively. Someone stumbles out of a taxi, thanking the driver again and again.

Derbyshire finger posts can be very precise. Mind you the miles are long 😉.

Wonderful! I’m so glad I could help & thank you to all Bolton Council for listening to my campaign for a new memorial for the amazing Fred Dibnah also thank you to BBC News (UK) & BBC North West for the lovely mention!#BankofDave #FredDibnah bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Morning guys #Seahouses North East Tweets

Mary Lee Berners-Lee, mother of Tim, worked in Manchester on the first commercially available computer, the Ferranti Mark 1.