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

Let's move down the Bakerloo line to Oxford Circus.

Ho hum. You’ve boxed me in, so my only way to break loose is to go international

Berlin Alexanderplatz

No surely not could you not gone to Green Park??

that should read not have gone to Green Park (quite flustered by the idea of going international at this juncture)

I don't know, Green Park would be quite the leap. But then we are in International play so...

Oh, what the hell. Nidd or not, Rome, Circo Massimo.

I hurry back to St Pancras International

In which case, the logical progression is

Romford

Sorry to have missed the excursion to the Continent.

Heathrow Terminal Five

Use of the Elizabeth line I see. Let's move to Hanwell.

I’m a trifle concerned that the rate of play is slowing down. Of course, that might be because we are all tired and distracted as we prepare for the festive season, or it might be because, in this cold snap, our fingers are too numb to work the electronic devices on which we play the game of games. Or could it be because we have yet to play Bazalgette’s Presumptive to

Marylebone?

I wondered when the builder of an important part of London's infrastructure (or the rule named in his honour) would come into play. So thinking of the time when his work coincided with that which created the basis of the game of games, a move to Farringdon.

Ah @ Llyn Tegrid Farringdon evokes such nostalgia in me........so inevitably I have to move to Temple

Sticking with Bazalgette, Tower Hill

Hexenjagd some time ago played an inverse Bazalgette but I agree, LlynTegid, that he does not get the attention he deserves. I need to finish (or start) my Christmas shopping so am off to

Covent Garden

I think we should continue shopping at Piccadilly Circus.

Bond Street, surely?

You are right, TragicMuse, that Bond Street is the natural shopping habitat for many players of the game of games, but heating the vast ancestral pile (15 bedrooms at the last count) is proving expensive and so one must make economies. Besides, the younger generation prefer gifts from the boutiques of Covent Garden, so Nanny tells me.

Knightsbridge

Ah yes. We've had to close the East wing and keep most of the curtains closed, though that does have the added advantage of keeping the light off the pictures...

My dears, we are burning the paintings, for a good blaze I recommend a Rembrandt, but for longevity you can’t beat a Canaletto.
My dearest sister was doing her annual shopping jaunt to the little byways around Soho and was sad to see some of last of the little Italian coffee shops has closed. So sad.
So apropos of nothing, Great Portland Street.

I'm playing by the eight-year-old boy rules.

MORNINGTON CRESCENT

And if you don't let me win then I am throwing the pieces all over the floor, tipping up the coffee table, and slamming the door before I stomp upstairs to my room. Because otherwise it is just not faaaaair.

Oh well done, Beancounter1. I failed to see that coming, although it now occurs to me that the Archbishop played that move with great aplomb at the Helsinki championship in 1990, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Would you care to start the next game?

I feel that I should be made to apologise, and have my laptop confiscated for the next three days. I am humbled by your offer of starting the next game.

How about actually starting at Mornington Crescent. It makes it doubly hard to get back here. I believe there is a precedent, but I can't recall the details.

Well done @Beancounter1

It is probably a bit easier if the next move is south to Warren Street.

Well done Beancounter! Masterful play!

Russell Square

Gosh all I can go with is Harrow on the Hill