Lets hear it for The Curtain Pole! Knuckling down to its task day in day out, allowing the far more popular curtain to take all the praise as it goes about its vital business with dignity and humility. Home improvement and personal privacy wouldnt be where they are today without these silent warriors.

Choosing to remain a worker behind the scenes, the curtain pole has had to come out of the closet in recent years. In this paparazzi era, curtain poles have been forced to not only glamourize but also openly display their wares.

In times past, curtain poles were relegated to the dark corridors and dingy shelves of giant DIY outlets. What a difference now as curtain pole specialists jostle for position and prestige with shops dedicated to them an their accessories.

The bog standard, drab wooden curtain poles of yesteryear are a thing of the past as metal and brass (to name just a couple) have been jostling for attention and dragged all their many cousins (including dazzling new wooden cousins) kicking and screaming into the new millennium with them.

They say all that glitters isn't gold, but you would be hard pressed to find fault with the role of the faithful curtain pole. In this modern designer world, curtain poles and tracks have been liberated, daring and bold, no longer satisfied with a back seat, no longer satisfied with a bit part, no longer waiting for a curtain call but stepping out into the limelight and taking centre stage, seizing their window of opportunity.

The world would be a a much more exposed place without our curtain pole friends. How they have transformed our personal sense of security and privacy. How they have formed such an amazing alliance with curtains. I hear the spokescurtain claim that if curtain poles were to take industrial action and go on strike, that curtains everywhere would lose their will to live and just collapse where they once stood. Let us not take the feat of the might curtain pole lightly, let us not be blind to their power.

We salute you oh wondrous curtain pole! You are a life changer and a life saver. Although we may often take you for granted, we endeaver to give you the credit you deserve!

The end! Finito! Finial!