It's been a while... the return of Mornington Crescent

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

I haven't played the game for several months, so I'm a little rusty. I'll start cautiously with an inverted half-shunt to

Bayswater

Perhaps you forget how closely the legal world and the upper echelons of this game of games are aligned? M'learned friends at the Old Bailey speak of little else.

Chalk Farm

Mmm I am not sure Chalk Farm would be allowed when Framlington's Feint has been called...

Nevertheless I will make a Woodham's Manoeuvre and step sideways to Baker Street. (Elementary my dear Watson...)

Bond Street

Bond Street? Certainly either ingenious or insane. Regardless, it leads me nicely to Waterloo.

Had a jolly old evening, even though the butler tripped and poured Sherry onto the Bishops lap.

Have been dithering, but think I can take an advanced shunt up the wing..
Liverpool Street

Gosh this is exciting! Joining the fray with a passback (Sheridan's Rule) to South Kensington

One just can't get the staff these days. Time for the diagonal vault to Marble Arch and another sherry.

As the board is still out in front of me, I’ll make a swift move using the International Manoeuvre (before I retire to my bed)

Clapham Common.

It was quite an evening, wasn’t it, Lagertha? I don’t think the bishop was greatly bothered by the sherry, as by that stage she’d already had five tequila slammers and a bucket of crème de menthe.

Battersea Power Station

@ComeIntoTheGardenMaud the bishop could power battersea..

Balham

Well, it's not unusual at these late night MC sessions, is it? Emboldened by the fourth bottle of Cointreau, someone risks an obverse shunt on the Circle line and nobody wants to go home.

Russell Square

Damn it I’m still awake!!
Have been rummaging in the filing cabinet for my handwritten 17th century MC rules. These were purchased from the Umpire herself by one of my ancestors… according to this, I can now only play

Stamford Brook

Before the bedtime laudanum takes effect I shall just mutter
Kensal rise

The Lady Sheringham herself taught me everything I know. I think you'll all agree that she was the high priestess of the triangulated backhand.

Barons Court

@ElfYourself21

The Lady Sheringham herself taught me everything I know. I think you'll all agree that she was the high priestess of the triangulated backhand.

Barons Court

She may have have been mistress of the triangulated backhand, but she was well known for bring an out and out cheat.

Her party trick used to be calling Theydon Bois when she knew full well it was against Fotheringay's Fifth after 6pm.

Anyway.l since we haven't yet passed the solstice, .. a shuffle along to Barbican.

Ah, the Lady Sheringham. I have recall her castigating the Colonel, at the semi-finals in Tokyo in ‘66, for playing Kings Cross on a downward diagonal. A terrible faux pas, which she couldn’t ignore.

Brixton

An out and out cheat! How very dare you! Clearly the Lady's highly creative methods are above your understanding as indeed the Colonel discovered to his detriment.

South Ruislip

I have consulted m’learned friends about your libellous accusations. They have issued a statement, refuting all such calumnies and pointing out that the altercation between the Lady and the Colonel at the Swindon playoffs in ‘86 was a misunderstanding brought on by several highly contentious double laterals and an excess of Napoleon brandy. And they should know, as they were there.

Great Portland Street

Mmm. I think your "learned" friends aren't as "learned" as they think they are...

I thought it was common knowledge in certain circles that the Lady Sheringham pulled a flanker in bringing a rather dodgy use of the oblique double lateral in somewhat flaky circumstances - much to the Colonel's dismay.
He hadn't seen such duplicitous play in years and it took him a while to recover, even with judicious use of smelling salts and a rather good single malt.
He was never the same after that, according to his friends at the Club.
But I digress...
Neasden.

Hmm, tricky, but at least it opens up the transverse Uffington to

Wood Lane

@ComeIntoTheGardenMaud

Hmm, tricky, but at least it opens up the transverse Uffington to

Wood Lane

I’m only observing this round under the Paddington Protocols, but I see what you did there. Always 3 steps ahead of everyone else, GardenMaud. Much respect.

Thank you, MangoSeason. I admit I was very rusty when this game began, but I've found my notes from last year's diploma course (didn't we meet there? online, of course) and they've been a huge help.

I can't afford to be in Nidd, so I'll move now to

Putney Bridge

...hic...lovely day...hic....fine 1982 claret...hic....the Lady on devastating form

Pings Cross St Kancras!

....hic...

Good heavens, @ElfYourself21, you have sent the entire thread into Nidd. Remember, Maud's approach to absinthe should serve as a warning, not an example. Personally I haven't touched anything stronger than mulberry juice since the dark days of the fourth lockdown.

I see it falls to me to drag this chaotic game back onto course again. I suppose I will have to revert to a Throckman's Thimble (1978 rules) to

St James's Park

@LagerthaofKattegat

Damn it I’m still awake!! Have been rummaging in the filing cabinet for my handwritten 17th century MC rules. These were purchased from the Umpire herself by one of my ancestors… according to this, I can now only play

Stamford Brook

What Ho! Always amazed that those rules were written before the Tube was conceived. Prescient in fact. Anyway I am bamboozled, stunned and flabbergasted at the level of play. Not since The Great Convocation of Novograd has there been such elegance. And to that end....Wood Green on a Greggs and Coopland double fillip.