Street's Feud for thought

TELL me, does your street have its own WhatsApp group? Mine does. And it drives me nuts.

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Particularly all the GVS that goes on. That’s Green Virtue Signalling, this street being in Brighton.

Some months ago, one resident wanted us all to know he had half a bottle of dishwasher liquid for which he was actively seeking a good home. Yes, half.

And another had a small cardboard box she was proudly reusing simply to put it in her recycling bin.

A third used the app to announce to her neighbours - hardly millionaires, but hardly on the breadline - that she’d ordered a surplus bag of frozen oven chips she didn’t want to waste (fair enough, except that if she was ordering frozen oven chips, was it not fair to assume she had a freezer she could put them in?)

So yes, people can be a bit irksome. But here’s the thing.