Confusion Dave, just confusion..

I took advice from a well known and respected forum where nearly each post advises the poster to ready the datasheet

I was looking at using a different display that use the SPI protocol, and it seems that the data and clock lines on a MSSP module are shared and the datasheet states that you have to run either / or. Hence the assumption that getting PIC with two independent MSSP's, one for the i2c and the other for the SPI was the logical way forward. That was before I was reminded that PBP SPI and i2c comms are software driven and thus I could use any other digital pins... it doesn't have ti be the hardware MSSP.