Camel Back Displays Help Comic Collector

My friend is grossly underestimated. He is regarded as something of a 'comic geek' with a certain amount of derision in some circles. Apart from doing a job he loves and can feel passionate about he is building up a fairly successful business so I think he will be the one laughing all the way to the bank.

To begin with he traveled to conventions with what he called his 'trade show displays.' It was a very amateurish slipshod affair more a bit of fun, until he realized the potential in not only advertising some of his more precious collections but that there was the potential to make lucrative contacts.

He studied other peoples Trusses, Logo Floor Mats and Exhibit booths and then approached Camelback Displays with his own ideas on what he might need and what he could afford and found they were very helpful in helping him decide on what was best for him. He is still having fun at the conventions but with a more professional look other dealers take him more serious and his business is growing from strength to strength. Makes you wonder who's laughing now?

The UK Parliament Cradle Of Democracy Or Den Of Inequity

For any patriotic United Kingdom citizen this last few weeks must be filling them with shame as the greed and underhanded dealings of their M.P.s are brought to light.

Ordinary citizens struggle daily some on less than an average wage without help with expenses or tax relief or any of that stuff. People who are unfortunate enough to be out of work and to have to claim benefits are often made to feel like scroungers and in some way wanting ..furthermore because no-one approves or likes a benefit cheat. Making a legitimate claim can be made even more difficult, often people don't get everything they are entitled to because they are put off by unhelpful and insensitive clerks. To lose your job and then suddenly feel that your one step above beggary is devastating. Something the U.K. M.P.s wouldn't recognize because while they are earning upwards from £60.000 they can claim for just about anything and have. What do they spend their wages on I wonder?

I think the benefit cheats can't hold a candle to the unethical bankers who were saved by tax payers money then retired with big healthy bonuses or the right dishonourable Members of Parliament who are now scrambling around saying "Sorry"

An eighty year old gets a rise of 20p on her pension for her birthday compare that to the M.P. who claims almost a thousand pounds for a sofa bed or another who claims almost £4000.00 for food. Then there's payments for mortgages, moats chimney cleaning etc.

They should be all investigated and if warranted charged with thievery. They are taking money out of all our pockets and the same ethical and lawful standards that brings the benefits cheat to the courts should also bring them to the courts.

Saying sorry and offering repayment is not enough not if you want to believe that you live in a half decent and honest Society. They all should go and never be allowed to enter the political arena again. Their greed and self interest is evident They should have known better so they should all go.

I was looking for some quiet time

Some peace of mind time,

Took my bike out for a spin

Stretching my legs, taking deep breaths

breathing out breathing in.

Along the embankment

Good morning to the ducks, the gulls

Breathing out breathing in

going for a spin.

Clearing my mind of care of woe

Forgetting my world

Just for a while

I smile at strangers passing by

The day is cool but clear

Bright, The water shimmers

Suddenly my eyes glimmer

my lips quiver and tears

roll down my cheek.

This ache never leaves my heart

This ache, my life

I Read Poetry

I read poetry

Ponder the words.

Skim the surface, dig the depth

And squelch through ambiguities

In intellectual wellies

To touch on meanings.

Then, from the corner of my eye

I spy a crow dancing, Jigging

A strange ridiculous sight.

This, Black Harbinger of ill

This jigger with the raucous call

Hops around, apes the clown!

Makes me smile wipes away words and meaning

Wipes away my frown.

And a bicyle bell turns my head

any lingering thoughts stop dead.

A deep indrawn breath

Of the cold morning air.

My book falls to the ground

Its fair enough to not always 'get it.'

Concentration gone, enjoy the moment.

Is The Pope A Catholic?

“Is the Pope a Catholic?” This is a statement in the affirmative with a mock questioning tone or declaration of fact. Off Course he is! For example a chocolate lover who is asked “Do you like chocolate, would you like share?” May very well answer with “Is the Pope a Catholic?” Which translated means “off course you fool give me some now!” His hand is probably already outstretched and he is probably salivating at the thought of getting share of some creamy Diary Milk.

It is an absolute affirmation on the part of the chocolate lover that “YES! I LOVE CHOCOLATE!”

The sickening expense scandal of British M.P.s

I am glad I am at that age, the age I can be grumpy for the last couple of days have shown me that I have plenty to be grumpy about.

It is this expenses scandal with our politicians. I hear repeatedly that they stayed within the rules/guidelines if not the 'spirit'. & the excuses being offered ...well they really do believe the public are thick and gullible.

That they didn't think of the 'spirit of the guidelines, or that none of them considered that their behaviour was immoral whether strictly within guidelines or not is sickening. If they thought they were doing nothing wrong heaven help the United Kingdom. Our society needs turned upside down and inside out. Sacking is too good for these politicians, they should be held accountable for swindling us. In another century they would have lost their heads! Call me hysterical if you want but when you consider the expenses they were claiming...Sofa beds...Dog food...Porn!

I feel what is the point in people bringing their children up encouraging qualities such as honesty integrity and a willingness to work when these sort of people are leading the Country and setting their own particular example. Not only have they managed to bankrupt the country but they seem to be morally bankrupt as well.

Showers Fags And The Universe.

Something about quitting (or trying to quit) cigarettes has made me think I am wonder woman or the reincarnation of a D.I.Y. Guru. So at the weekend I took it on my self to try and fix my leaking shower. Logically I checked to make sure it wasn't the pipes first and that it was just a sealing problem (a fairly serious sealing problem as the water ran down my walls into my Kitchen the last time it was used gleefully). Getting to work I reckoned 'this will be straight forward' It always is in your imagination.


28 days off the cigarettes will give you all sorts of notions. As I gasped for a fag and painted with shaky hand the tanking membrane on to the wall the man on the radio happened to say that 3/4 of the Universe is missing he reckons it is either down his sofa or in his wife's handbag. It makes me wonder why we worry so much about this 1/4 if we didn't even know about the missing 3/4 a few years ago!


I dunno how they work out all this stuff I guess it is maths. Given that, I reckon the missing 3/4 could be everywhere or nowhere. Everyone's sofa, handbag, shower enclosure anywhere could have the missing 3/4! It is all relative....there I go thinking Einstein........Maybe I should have just one wee fag I am in danger of becoming an intellectual as well as D. I Y Guru (in my minds eye).

It's amazing what happens when you stop ..Laters