Time for another game of Mornington Crescent

[tectonicplates]

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

Phew, I'm glad someone's paying attention, Cartright. In that case, I can play Hendon Central.

Phew, I forgot about that.

In that case, I’m going to relax and play Marble Arch.

My apologies for the erroneous third playing of Grange Hill - I had instructed the under-butler to play on the new-fangled telephonic apparatus, which makes it harder to refresh one’s memory about previous moves. Nervously, I tender

Tower Gateway

In that case, now I'm taking us to East Ham without risking Nidd.

Oh, well played. With some trepidation (because I know some players have doubts about the Treppingham Convention on which it is based, although I've always found it persuasive) I offer you

Osterley

Well, when it comes to the Treppingham Convention I always think it depends on whether you take the sub-clauses into account.

Well, the sub clauses are there for a reason (especially 5(b)(iiii), Maud...)

Treppingham Convention - oh my goodness, I've not thought about that for years. I'm going to have to do a bifurcation on the fly and hope I get this right...

Maida Vale

And I've just put myself in pseudo-Nidd - realised as soon as I hit post!

Hopefully, the next two players will get me out.

Can't help you out this time, I'm afraid, DadDadDad.

Temple

Oh, go on then... I'll help you out with Knightsbridge.

I've owed D^3 a favour ever since the evening in Baden Baden when a riot broke out after the Colonel played Tottenham Hale on a reverse shunt, so I'll help him out with

Whitechapel

Aha! Here you all are, tsk tsk for starting without me.

I believe due to the moon waxing gibbous on a Saturday in October, I can not only join late but play Waterloo, which releases @DadDadDad.

A bit avant-garde but I believe allowed under the 1901 ammendment to the Edinburgh rules, unless I am misreading.

You soft-hearted suckers! Edinburgh rules play straight into my hands - the Waverley addendum as amended by the Court of Board Games Arbitration in 1957, 1962 and 1981 - and I'll perform a transectional orbit straight out of London and land on New Street? New Street? nah, let's go full throttle:

Birmingham International

(gloves are off now )

Good Lord. I've been in Vladivostock for work for a few days and all hell has broken out in my absence.

Still, if you can't beat them, join them - so I'll venture a crooked Marplot to

East Midlands Parkway

Wylde Green

/cracks knuckles

It's not my turn, but I have to ask @IrenetheQuaint, if it's true that the authorities are really cracking down on MC dens in Vladivostok or is that just posturing by Putin?

Lovely to see you here, Irene. Did you find a decent game of MC in Vladivostock? I hear that play can get very fierce there once the vodka starts flowing.

I feel emboldened, so am playing a transcontinental lunge to

Paris Gare du Nord

This is turning into a "I've just returned from a Mornington Crescent tour of Vladivostok AMA".

I'll keep it simple, and play Musee d'Orsay

How's this going to work after Brexit?

By the way, I like the Paris Metro's nifty magnifying glass map. metromap.fr/en

OK, if we're going continental then I'm taking the game to Barcelona. Sagrada Familia.

And without further ado

Trondheim Central

I guess that's what they mean by Norway Plus!

I'll go Wawrzyszew

I meant to say, @Cartright , that the name Wylde Green sounds like the place where Extinction Rebellion should base themselves.

Oh no, you've left us up the creek there, Dad!

I hope no-one minds, but I'm going to have to invoke a transverse put pursuant to the Bordersholm 1976 Amendement and play Bremen Neustadt.