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

Gosh! I haven’t seen that move since the Colonel attempted it at the Bilbao conference in 2012. I still have flashbacks to how that ended.

Walthamstow

I'm going to have to call it a night for now (I plead Extenuating Circumstances under the Thorvald Convention on Player Elimination). It's an honour to meet such strong players.

Before I go, I'll try to untwist that triple-exchange with: Elephant and Castle.

Nice one@PhotoDad it has been a pleasure

i invoke the Old Circle Line Möbius Step

Kings Cross

I'll take Photodad's seat, I believe I can under the 1934 Bedford Symposium revision to the Eastern Standard Rules

Tottenham Court Road

Ooooh can I join in? I'm a complete novice - last time I played it got very messy and I ended up in Nidd pretty much straight away.

So very nervously (and safely), I'm going for

Swiss Cottage

<wibble>

Controversial one

Canary Wharf

Nice play ApplePippa!

Ummmmmmm. Oh now then, it's tricky...

But I think this works - Vauxhall

I know there's a few options here and this might be high risk but:

earls court

Has the Codex been updated to allow Battersea Power Station Station?

I believe it has Violettaa, but purists of the game might not allow it.

If so, I think the next move has to be:

Richmond

Taplow

Hmm, I’m sure the Dowager Countess’s blushes will be spared…

What with all the piano moves going on and both controversy and queries about Codexes, I’m going to do a hangman’s drop into Bond Street as the Triple lock has expired (crosses fingers I’m not in Nidd!)

Oh my God Muse!! Have you LOST YOUR MIND!!!

I play fast and loose at this time of night, Juicy!!

Oh I've so missed this game!

So forgive me if I'm a bit rusty and this is a hideously obvious move.

All I can think of as a logical play is:

Southwark

Moving several spaces along to Albion. Starting with debtford, then catford

3 steps in one is BOLD PLAY! I like that! Shows pluck.

Oh God, I swore I'd never play again after rashly joining an illegal 72-hour session down Aldwych tube station during the third lockdown. Never mind Covid, by the time I made it shakily back into the fresh air both my eyebrows had turned white, and an unexplained injury to the little finger on my left hand has had a disastrous effect on my bassoon playing.

But the nights are drawing in and the old longing has come over me.

Mudchute

Hmm a plucky move indeed but I fear it has left us in contravention of the Von Schleswig contract as cited in the 2011 championships.

I believe it can however be resolved with a double shove to
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North Ealing*

Ah my apologies Irene I fear I double-shoved over your move there.

I withdraw my suggestion and tip my hat to your superior strategy

And humbly submit Cannon Street

Squints at @IrenetheQuaint

dO I know you….? Fond memories, if so. The Downing street lockdown parties are stuff of legend, but tha game was …. Something else….

im a purist at heart, so …

Willeseden Junction

I'm a novice so I do hope you'll be kind.

Tooting Broadway

Sideways shunt and a neat reverse to Wapping.

Twisted shuttles at Dalston Junction so....Old Street

That's numberwang