There's a saying what comes around goes around and I can still vividly picture the night the Tories retook control of Worthing Council.

They were parading turncoat Mayor Dave Chapman like some political trophy and predicting an exciting future for the town under their hierachy.

A couple of years later, when the Cabinet system was introduced, the Boys in Blue were almost rubbing their hands at the prospect of running Worthing as the seaside resort it hadn't been when they ran it for 80 or so years prior to 1994.

Sadly, it didn't pan out that way and now one of their main movers and shakers, Councillor Andrew Garrett, doesn't want to play at local government any more because he's in opposition.

Apparently there is no room for active opposition within the Cabinet system, something he didn't point out when in power.

By attending, albeit it for 15 minutes, a recent council meeting, Coun Garrett still qualifies for his main allowances.

But, as a man of the people, will he be claiming this four-figure sum from the council coffers? Perhaps as a result of his inactivity he'll donate it to local causes within his Maybridge constituency?

However, this exit may merely be au revoir and not goodbye. He has said if Worthing gets an elected mayor, paid of course, he's the man for the job.

Only time will tell if Garrett turns out to be the Comeback Kid.

Children were put up the chimneys of Worthing's palatial dwellings during Victorian times. And even now we have our own version of child neglect as a number of our young footballers play on pitches with no changing or shower facilities.

However, things could be changing at one venue, Victoria Park, where a bequest to Worthing Borough Council for the development of youth in the town could be used to build changing rooms.

Having taken my lad to play there, all I can say is it's long overdue.

Perhaps the council will also look at solving the other big problem in Victoria Park and at our other pitches? That is dog owners who allow their pets to foul on the grass and then don't scoop it up.

These people are not even second-class citizens and frankly I don't care how many wars they fought in or how much council tax they pay. They should still bend down and pick up the mess.

An example needs to be made with a citizen's arrest - preferably by yours truly.

I'm not a killjoy but as a fully paid-up member of the 2.4 children, dog and a cat brigade did I miss the legislation that turned Guy Fawkes night into a month-long fiesta?

Was the attack on Parliament actually on November 5 or was it a sustained bombing campaign carried out over the last two weeks of October and the first 10 days of November?

Am I imagining things or does the firework season start in October and end when the shops have run out of stocks?

My neighbour, a man who remembers the war, said the other Saturday night was like something out of the Blitz. I say night but there was still some bright spark, excuse the pun, letting off rockets at 1.30am the next day.

Surely there's a call for some kind of by-law to stop all this. What about fireworks only during the first week of November and only before 11pm?

Otherwise my cat will end up having kittens before the month is out - and we had her doctored three years ago!