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Nov 22, 2022
Wish you were here
Snatching some winter sunshine in Barbados, we watch all the selfies going on and I wonder: which is more real to those people, the here...
Nov 11, 2022
2B
On holiday, I decided to try my hand at pencil sketching again. I have always been fascinated by faces, and how subtle differences of...
Oct 31, 2022
Two-ness
My wife and I started a business together twenty-odd years ago, and, despite never really having had a business plan, we made a pretty...
Sep 28, 2022
Simple Soup
I drive the 90 minutes or so over to North London see my Dad every week or two, and lately we have taken to going out to lunch. Last...
Aug 11, 2022
A visitor from Insta-land goes to the supermarket
People say wonderfully bonkers things, and this one made me laugh out loud in the supermarket. Yes it really happened, and I knew...
Jun 7, 2022
Mara’s Selfie-facing
An evening out with great friends Mara and Pete. We decide to take a photo (as you do). I remember that photographers used to tell people...
Apr 15, 2022
The Crow should think again
I put up a nesting box in my garden and waited to see if anyone needed a home. The very same day a pair of Blue Tits moved in. I decided...
Mar 21, 2022
What are your intentions?
On 31 July 2015, I was flying my plane from Bournemouth, where I had just done a day’s instrument flying training, back to base at...
Mar 1, 2022
I can remember my future
“I can remember my future” is an experiment. I’ve broken with my usual form of rhyming couplets and come up with a jaunty limerick-style...
Feb 18, 2022
A new poem: 'Flying with the Gods'
As I mentioned in 'Space' below, I thought this picture would help me find a way to say something about flying. The poem that eventually...
Feb 12, 2022
Space
A flight, just for fun, to the south coast yesterday. There was a high layer of cloud just veiling the winter sun, and then patches of...
Feb 11, 2022
Behind The Fairy Door - latest
So a passing toddler had the presence of mind to open the door, and her Mum had the presence of mind to take a little video and post it...
Feb 11, 2022
Welcome to Pointy Poems new website!
Thanks to the patient help and creativity of Kat Moir and Shaun Prince of onlinedesigns.uk we have a brand new website. Clearer, more...
Feb 10, 2022
The old school ties
My old boarding school, The Friends' School, Saffron Walden, has an old scholars' page on Facebook, where I posted this poem ('Just...
Feb 10, 2022
'The Fairy Door' maker: watch this space
A matter of hours after I posted this poem on our village's Facebook page, two people popped up to say they know the maker, and the maker...
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