The inevitable return of Mornington Crescent

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

As winter approaches and the nights draw in, one’s thoughts naturally turn to wholesome, homely entertainment. Instead, though, I invite experienced players and novices alike to join me in a game of Mornington Crescent.

To keep the pace gentle, I’ll begin with an inverse Lepton to

Seven Sisters

Nearly done Maud. No one wants to be in knockings.

Of the options available...St Paul's

They certainly don’t. The Archbishop was very careless with a double splice on the Circle line in the Tokyo playoffs in ‘64 and the game was stalled in knockings for three days. Most frustrating, but we won’t fall into that trap now.

Brixton

A bit risky, but I'll try Edgware Road.

Oh dear, the incomplete naming of a station, as there are two Edgware Road stations. So the incomplete name rule means back to Brixton for the next move. The tournament of 1988 nearly ground to a halt because of Mill Hill being played and no-one knowing if it was a clever use of the Northern Heights rule or just the missing off of 'East'.

Let's move to Stockwell.

Dear me, yes, I remember it well. I believe things were clarified the following year with the 1989 Copenhagen Protocol.

Highbury & Islington

Clapham Common <mic drop>

I see what you did there!
Bit tricky, and I'm a little nervous with this one Boston Manor

Good shot, CharlotteStreet!

It has to be done

Epping

The closed lines rule should be used and so Ongar comes into play.

Finchley Road and Frognal. *
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<Smug>

You may well be smug, Tragic but

Willesden Junction

<smiles knowingly>

If it’s junctions you want

Norwood Junction

Using the London Overground rule we can avoid too many junctions and end up at Honor Oak Park.

Let’s have a little more park life

Ravenscourt Park

And move to somewhere near to a lovely park, Osterley.

I'm feeling a bit wombley today -
Wimbledon Park

I'm inexplicably drawn to Harrow On The Hill.

It's entirely a mystery as to why, but such are the vagaries of play. Sometimes an instinctive move is the only sensible option, Stovold notwithstanding.

Play to the mood!!

Like melancholy autumn, I find myself drawn to Wembley.

Apologies, I meant Wembley Park. Poetry overcame me.

A reverse (cannot remember the name adopted after the 1964 convention) to Ruislip Manor.

I'm very drawn to Watford

Well, someone has to be but, personally, I prefer the leafy environs of

New Barnet

The night bus rule gets me to Oakwood.

Ooh! It’s Advent Sunday now so I can do a Whittaker shift to Angel!

I like to think that the Archbishop would approve.

Having just popped back to the game, had to have to fan myself gently to get over the delight that my earlier suggestion of BHM map was -albeit briefly- welcomed and played.

This has emboldened me to suggest a move, forced by ongoing strike activity, to clickety -clack to Kentish Town, that famed interchange with a rival (inferior?) Rail network.