Avenue Close

While I was driving over to Nottingham at the weekend, I passed a street sign I've seen many times before in Stoney Middleton. It's "Avenue Close" and it always makes me chuckle. I was travelling on my own, so with no distractions my mind wandered to other comic possibilities for street names.

I think those Stoney Middleton planners missed a trick by not putting "Real Close" next to "Avenue Close." Of course, the classic "Letsby Avenue" is well known but by the time I'd gone through Memory Lane, Blind Alley, Bowling Alley, Upping Court, Back Passage, Tennis Court, My Way, Perfect Place and Whist Drive I was giggling fit to burst and almost had to pull over.

I'm easily amused.