Time for another game of Mornington Crescent

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I'm going to start with High Street Kensington. A classic start, if I do say so myself.

Hmph, I see what you did there.

Now we get to the part of the game where I have to pick a station that sounds slightly like a Midlands football team.

So West Brompton Albion.

Time for the London Overground rule to take us to Maud’s former haunt at Wapping

Ah I see, I didn't realise grosvenor's original metropolitan rules weren't in force. Apologies. In which case, the answer was staring me in the face all the time.

Finsbury Park.

Ah, Saints, that reminds me of a splendid long weekend I spent with @MyNightWithMaud back in the day. Alas, she and Andrew have now fled to a small island in the South China Sea and can only be contacted via a poste restante address in Indonesia.

Returning to the matter in hand, I shall essay a Morton's Fork to

North Lambeth

But no, Irene, whenever the game of games is essayed on MN I will be here. Andrew I have not seen for many a month, but I believe he'll be eligible for parole soon.

Morton's Fork inspires me to indulge in a PennyfeatherTwist to

Hainault

Ah, no. I was expecting us to disregard Turgdor - the majority view since 1997 has been that the Bishop was under the influence when he drew up those rules and they must be considered unsound - so I'll retract that move in favour of

Turnham Green

Can I tentatively ask if we can have an Andrewofgg memorial move, until (or if) Andrew returns?

It can be called the 'Andrew Return Memorial' and would take us to Piccadilly Circus.

Obviously any objection and I will concede.

The cat is currently on the window sill cleaning herself so I may have a chance for a couple of unaided moves.

It is, I think, what he would have wanted.

In memory of the good times

Penge East

Dearest Maud! I am sorry to hear that things with Andrew did not work out, but perhaps, in the circumstances, it is for the best.

I always find Overground play rather challenging - we simply don't have a robust set of precedents. However, perhaps I am allowed an experimental Western thrup to Clapham High Street?

And (as the Marchioness often used to enquire) why not?

Play seems a little slow tonight but I’m trusting that our elite squad of players will return over the weekend. Having consulted the Compendium (1934 edition as I distrust the 1996 update), I’ll aim to entice them with a bilateral loop to

Green Park

The 1934 compendium contained the first ever reference to the closed stations rule, as such an idea was heathen until a short time beforehand. The founders of MC had not thought that stations would be closed, just doors.

So playing the closed stations rule, Down Street.

@MyNightWithMaud the bilateral loop when played in a waxing moon via green park can only mean a reverse shunt to North Greenwich

Oh my. I haven’t seen such bold play since the heats in Shanghai in ‘54, when the Lieutenant Colonel played an Inverted Worthington to West Byfleet and chaos ensued.

Oval

Aha! A new game! Hopefully since it's the first Friday of the month and after 6pm, a new player is allowed to join? Or are we playing the dratted Minsk rules which would of course not permit me to join?

If not, I'm in and from Oval I'd say my obvious move would be Bank.

Hell of a move to play Bank. I take us north to visit the birth of the communist manifesto, Highgate station is where we have nothing to fear but our chains.

The birth of the said work of Mr Marx was actually the closed station of Highgate know known as the high level. So I move to Highgate the 1940 station, the shortest move since the Colonel moved from Leicester Square to Covent Garden in the 1948 tournament.

Well played! I didn't see that one coming.

I don't want to be too rash, so I'm carefully considering my limited options from here.

Given the final judgement on the Morris issue of '84, which I think we can all agree cleared up once and for the all the question of surrounding stations, I think I will tentatively take us to East Finchley and hope the communist link will avoid any disruption that move may otherwise have made.

I hope I’m not intruding but I’ve been observing proceedings and I think there’s a possibility that last move to East Finchley puts you all in breach of the Postlethwaite Convention (awful business, but necessary of course, if we are to avoid a repeat of the happenings of 1910). I’d like to interject with a hurried move to Canning Town, which I believe keeps everyone the right side of Nidd, at least for the time being. I hope all are in agreement.

Thanks for that, GirlInTheDirtyShirt. We were dangerously close to stumbling into Nidd, but that deft move should keep us safe unless anyone is rash enough to try an obverse on the Metropolitan line. There’ll be no such tomfoolery from me.

Walthamstow

Maud

Thank you for being understanding.

As closed stations are in play I will begin with the first one King William StreetMaud is it true you actually witnessed this event?

I really can’t say, Sashh, as despite our legal team’s best and most persuasive efforts the Supreme Court declined to lift the superinjunction. . So we just muddle through, and in that spirit arrive at

Theydon Bois

Well, since it is Saturday, 8am and the first weeked of October, I will take us the other side of London and Hounslow Central from whence we may go to Bushy Park and witness the 15th anniversery celebrations of the first parkrun.

The keener players amongst us may also notice that with that little manouvre I have reset the order of play. Interchanges are low.

I have to assume this is the present Hounslow Central (or is it Hounslow East) that moved at some point. Either of which has a low interchange with these things called buses.

A move via the bus replacement rule to Twickenham seems appropriate given the Rugby Union World Cup is taking place.

Good thinking, Saints. That should prevent the Victoria line going into knockings, at least until dusk.

Queensway

But playing Queensway disregards the Hyde park rules of 2012, whence the olympics mandated the golden time play, requiring that when major tournaments are on, irrespective of location, the closure of stations is derigueur. We must proceed immediately to Bounds Green