When your street hasn't been up to much

Still, improved my PB on the mini crossword by five seconds, so that’s something*.

*It’s nothing. Today is a bit of a write-off.

Saw an Irish van earlier with ‘An Iarmhí’ on its plates. Unless you know it, there’s no way you’d guess which county that is unless by pure chance.

This is the best example of this meme I think I have ever seen or will ever see.

Apparently this street was recently renamed in honour of one of Jones’s legendary Twitter spats.

Looking at figures indicating the scale of the Tory collapse, I'd like to think there are more voters who feel they've gone too far to the right and/or are incompetent than those who think they haven't gone far enough. Either way, going further right won't help them win.

How alarmed would you be on filling in this form if your birthday actually was the 15th of March 1984?

I really don’t think I’ve become measurably more stupid in the part three days and yet I’ve failed to complete the NY Times Connections puzzle for three days running now, having got all of them before when I discovered it a month ago. Are they getting sloppier and more ambiguous?

This tree stump shouldn’t be allowed in a family-friendly neighbourhood.

Wordle, you terrible ****.

Our house is opposite Over Hypotenuse.

Odd name the neighbour has given his home but I won’t judge him; we are, after all, living in sin.

If you were a pharmacist, would you actually want your customers to choose the rightmost option here, indicating that their experience of asking for a tube of maximum-strength Voltarol, being given it, and paying for it was rib-ticklingly HILARIOUS and turned your face green?

I won’t say I’ll exactly be sad to see him go but Nadhim Zahawi is certainly one of the less unlikeable Conservatives in parliament, and his letter isn’t an embarrassment… except perhaps the suggestion that William Shakespeare was a constituent, even if that was his little joke.

Gary Barlow says if you reply “no” when the pharmacist asks whether you pay for your prescriptions, they will generally take you at your word.

“£9.90 is my idea of a very nice saving,” he told reporters

Yuck. I'd underplayed Elphicke's defection. I'd seen it as something that'd do more harm to the Tories than Labour and, as she's not standing at the GE and this wasn't proactive on Labour's part it, it didn't matter, but the borders reference here is pushing me to the other side.

Two or three weeks ago I was down by the New River, where there were two nests full of eggs: one with a mother moorhen; the other a coot. I’m sure these chicks are moorhens, but isn’t this a coot feeding them? Has she got confused or do baby coots lose their red markings?

Fans of Operation Mincemeat - do this short questionnaire to help convince potential backers that the show isn’t too British for Broadway. ys7b6gtblwn.typeform.com/to/aw0vIaL2

Yes, autocorrect, there’s no way in the world I was going for the word ‘permanent’; I was *definitely* aiming for ‘permanganate’, what with my inability to stop going on about my C in GCSE chemistry from 1992.