Anyone up for a game of Mornington Crescent?

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I'm starting with Bank.

Fine move, but somewhat audacious.. Surely you have not forgotten Helsinki 49 dementedma ?

I am literally in Earl's Court right now, which is extremely meta and allows me to play a Penniman's Hitch and take a jaunt over to Dagenham Heathway.

What a glorious Snurgle dementedma. So lovely to have you back, I'd already heard of your return to polite society (your parole officer plays golf - ghastly game - with Mummy Pingu's 8th husband, and you know what those chaps are like for salacious gossip!) and was hoping you'd not lost your excellent MC form while you were... away...

Now, let me think. We're in Dagenham, its the first Sunday of the month, and no-one's yet invoked the Aldbury Amendment, I believe the only acceptable play is

Monument

So hopefully after negotiating the escalators we can continue from Monument via Bank and via the Central line to Bethnal Green.

Greetings pingu. How is mummy these days? I believe she thrashed the Dowager Duchess at croquet last week? Never wise to cross the DD. Last person who did that ended up floating in the Koi pond in mysterious circumstances. Word to the wise..laska there is a reason I have the word Helsinki tattooed on my...well, never mind. I do believe you omitted to play a station dear, which puts you in Nidd. Shame.
I feel a night on the town is due so move us all in a shunting to Leicester Square

Demented yes I know, I was so in awe of your audaciousness (especially after Helsinki, and given that you have only just been released. ) ..I fell splat into Nidd..

Do have to wait 3 goes ? or can I say

Russel Square ?

(I do belive the Countess Jemima Farquarson-Balls-Petersen is having a bit of a soiree this evening and the Count Vladimir and his son Thor will be i attendance ( so should be a good Bash) .. I have my gown and glass slippers on

Russell Square.. even
Apologies I have had more , its the all Brigs fault, he was chasing Flossie around in just his pyjama top and Y fronts with his Blunderbuss all erect earlier.. It was far too much for my poor nerves .. and as for poor Pug....I just cannot get her from out under the chaise longue..

I need a night out in good company

laska well if we are to be invited to the F-B-Ps soiree then I feel that Nidd lite could be imposed on this occasion. But let it be a salutary lesson. Thor is devastatingly handsome and Count Vladimir is once more on the market after the sad death if his 3rd wife following that unfortunate incident with the penguin and the pantyhose. As I must now rush home to change, I play a quick paso doble to Piccadilly and will see you all at bash later. Does @andrewofgg join us or is he still detained in Venezuela?

We can sneak him in I think and most of the rest of us who are around .... As long as we Do Not mention the penguins.. Or Venezuela.
Or the Brig. He stays at home .Most definitely ..

Russell Square it is then

after Piccadilly that is .. It is allowed twice on Very Special Occasions ( especially as the devastating (and single) Thor, is going to be at the party.. ..)

Posh Frocks and Rocks on, Ladies

Getting to Piccadilly (not Piccadilly Circus) will have been on foot via the invocation of the walking rule c 1957 and allowed you to be back at Russell Square. So no need for anyone to be in Nidd on a Bank Holiday.

It's a good job I stayed off the gin and did not join Delia Smith in the celebrations of her association football team (they have won a trophy), so I can keep a clear head and remember that the walking rule is needed to make a move. Which gets me to Farringdon and with the aid of the Elizabeth line rule I move to Southall.

I hope @andrewofgg is OK- he is possibly the only player of the great MC game of 2017 not to have joined us this time.

This game is absolutely loopy, makes no sense at all.

I can't believe not one of you has said Dollis Hill. There. I've done it. Riddle that one!

There may have been some confusion about Dollis Hill. As it is not in Dollis Hill at all. Or given that it used to be on the Bakerloo line and before 1939 on the Metropolitan Railway, that it is closed given so-called engineering works over this Bank Holiday weekend. It is a good job there is not a maze in Gladstone Park, which is in the real Dollis Hill, as no doubt we would be short of a few players for the game of games if there were.

So let's move to Neasden to visit the marvel of awful architecture, the Neasden Shopping Centre. As mentioned if I recall correctly by one of the most famous players of this game, the late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman. Who understandably threw a hissy fit in the first game of 1946 when someone played a move to Slough claiming the Great Western Railway rule was in force on a Thursday.

Funny you should mention Betjemen. I understand there were mutterings about Gants Hill.

So I'll play that. Despite it being a Bank holiday and technically a bit dodgy rules-wise.

My sources tell me that @andrewofgg has changed his name and moved to the Faroe Islands following the unfortunate incident with the Archbishop, the sloth and the 75-year-old Lagavulin.

Knowing Andrew as I do, however, it is perfectly possible that he has put this story out to deceive us and has fled somewhere else entirely.

In honour of the sloth, I will venture to

Regent's Park

irene you sound familiar. I dont think anyone has ever seen you and andrew at the same tournament....do you perchance have a lazy eye and a slight lisp also?
I feel the need for a move to Baker Street to inspire further deductions

In honour of the royal birth I move to the station nearest to the father's place of birth, Paddington.

Well!! That was a good party.. Young Thor is indeed devastatingly attractive and Count Vladimir really quite loquacious (I lost sight of him after 3 am, and think he may have left with dementedma ( but we wont say much about that ) ..
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I have just got up, ! The Brigadier is still on the rampage somewhere in the house, I think. I can hear some strange roars from down below (and I dont think its to do with the kebab I shared with Thor in the taxi on the way home..) he has now left, and Pug and I are still safe within my boudoir for now..But do feel the need for a leetle and a teensy snackette now, so may venture below and see if Cook has left anything good in the pantry..

Anyway, I see we have moved on, so I now essay on to Barbican - I feel we may be in need of a little culture..

Thor eh? I remember him when he was called Nigel and "collected glasses" at Heaven. Word is his meteoric rise is in part due to him knowing A LOT about certain members of Parliament and several Royal Houses.
Hopefully this wasn't a portent, but I crossed the River Nidd three times over the weekend.
Tantalisingly playing the Outhwaite Bypass to Camden, so a move of no less than 7 stops widdershins. Yah boo!

Ah. A slow start to today’s play, so I’ll attempt

Wood Lane

Sometimes you just have to throw caution to the winds and say West Ruislip

While I'm absolutely on board with throwing caution to the winds, I'm sure all of the more experienced MC players will agree that there is never a need to go to Ruislip - West or otherwise! Not even after several snifters of the Brigadier's finest, and an offer one couldn't refuse from that dreadfully nice young under-gardeneer that Mummy Pingu's 3rd husband was so fond of. And anyone who says otherwise -hasn't signed the Official Secrets Act- is lying!

Mudchute . With no explanation necessary , or indeed, offered.

Oh dear. Strike through fail! It seems those snifters of the Brigadier's finest play merry hell with one's typing ability!

Abbey Road playing the DLR rule- no Beatles crossing there.

As for Ruislip, not a move I have ever made. The place that gave us Scouting for Girls, a Noughties beat combo who have never played MC.

Some very dodgy moves on here today. I play a serene shape shifter to temple in an attempt to confurgle the less spiritual amongst us. If no-one spots my darker intent I see myself home and dry in a scant 3 moves...