Nigel & Nostalgia and Comics

I met Phil Clarke through Pete Lennon and Carl Brooks, a while before Phil got around to opening his shop,

Nostalgia & Comics

in a kiosk, in the now long gone, Hurst Street Subway, in downtown Birmingham, U.K.

I bought my comics from Phil, right up until I left Birmingham and the U.K., in 1980.

It has always been a pleasure for me, to see that the store Phil founded, is still in operation, even though Phil sold out his interest in the business, a long time ago.

This past weekend, my old pal Nigel, dropped by the old store (he still lives in the area) and was kind enough to send me a photograph of one of their latest shopping bags.

It is the little things in life, that can mean so much and this was a touching gesture because there is no way that I will be getting one for myself!

As I said to Nigel, when I thanked him, it is the ephemeral stuff, the flyers, adverts, bags and badges, that often fall through the cracks of our lives because we always seem to think that they are unworthy of collecting.

In the final analysis though, it is often these things that stay resident in memory and niggle at the edges of our brains, making us wonder if they ever actually existed.  That is part of the reason why I write this Blog, to commemorate the passing parade of my collecting life.