Pointy Poems

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...

On holiday, I decided to try my hand at pencil sketching again. I have always been fascinated by faces, and how subtle differences of...

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...

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...

People say wonderfully bonkers things, and this one made me laugh out loud in the supermarket. Yes it really happened, and I knew...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

Thanks to the patient help and creativity of Kat Moir and Shaun Prince of onlinedesigns.uk we have a brand new website. Clearer, more...

My old boarding school, The Friends' School, Saffron Walden, has an old scholars' page on Facebook, where I posted this poem ('Just...

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...