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Although of course MC is a game for all seasons, I do have especially fond memories of an October championships in Wales and extracurricular… fun amid the greenery of a National Trust garden.

If I've missed anyone I do apologise; do round up any players you happen to see or hear of.

And I'll start with a lovely little move that the Reverend taught me.
Finsbury Park

Fair enough. I do hope the evening had a happy ending.

I shall saunter along to Loughton.

I was in Marrakech for the Council last time round. Mainly I felt sorry for the goat.

Penge West

How unseemly. And speaking of unseemly, we're long overdue a move to

Warren Street

Restoring a bit of decorum with a move to monument

A direct clockwise trundle to Westminster

I think we can move to Baron's Court with relative ease. I've absented myself from the Council for a number of years after objecting to some inferior version of the game of games was proposed, only within the original Circle line boundaries. Even though the idea was defeated, and hopefully is never resurrected.

Nicely done, LlynTegid. Let's advance to

Richmond

Heading to the very far reaches of Heathrow Terminal 5.

As you said LlynTegid, it would be a very inferior game if the Council had agreed the "speed version".

BA switchback to Heathrow Terminals 2&3.

Although there's something to be said for the speed version if the Major's managed to wheedle his way into the game.

Very nifty, Seaside1234.

I can no longer resist the sirens' call to

Fairlop

I tend to agree Seaside1234. Whatever happened to that motion at the July 2001 Council meeting to block the Major from playing? Wasn't there an attempt to put him permanently in Nidd?

I'm off to Seven Sisters.

I believe the major and the vice consul were old school friends which may explain a few things. Russell square.

Back to Russell Square so soon? I hope Myrtle (who played it last) doesn't take offence. You know how she can be - after that contretemps in Abergavenny she's been so sensitive.

Dagenham Heathway

<fuming>

Is this actually allowed?! Or are we playing the free and easy Istanbul version? It should have been pointed out if we were.

And what happened in Abergavenny was a provocation. Anyone would have upended the table and thrown the pieces on the floor and stamped on them and ground them into dust after the Monsignor's disgusting inference about me. I am not a cheater, either in the game or in the rest of my life, and for those who want to talk about Ross Geller, we were on a break.

Let's not bring all that up again. In fact, let's get out of the East End altogether and move to somewhere far more salubrious.

Holland Park

Oh dear, Myrtle. I'm so sorry that this has stirred up such painful, traumatic memories. It's been a while since we saw the Monsignor on the MC circuit and we all know better than to enquire.

As for returning to previously played stations; as part of my induction, I was told it was not allowed - and indeed there was a frisson when the principal trombonist tried it at Weston-super-Mare in '54 - but times have changed and I sense that most players of the game of games are now relaxed, indeed laissez-faire, about it.
^
Let us maintain this salubrious tone at

Bond Street^

It was indeed stated at my induction also that we do not return to previous stations or we could be here in a never ending loop exactly the Circle Line and that just would not do.

Are we going to have to resort to listing ALL the stations payed in the game so far in every missive (so time consuming)?

I'll let it go this once and all the other times in the previous game.

Now we can move on to Chalfont and Latimer.

I think, dearest Myrtle, that (in the words of a ditty from one of Mr Disney's talking pictures) we must let it go, recognising that newbies (ie those who've joined the MC circuit since 1954) might not have received the excellent induction training from which we undoubtedly benefitted. We must therefore be generous.

Hainault

You are kinder than I am, Gertrude, and I bow to your generosity of spirit. They haven't suffered the way I have. They haven't experienced the agonies of tedium at such insignificant venues as Middlesbrough in 1971 or Warrington in 1986 that were necessary for ranking purposes before the free for all that happened in the 90s.

I am impressed that you have the patience.

But not impressed that you drag us eastward again.

Goodge Street

I think we must begin to look west and Holland Park is where I move.

Holland Park? What a provocation to poor, dear Myrtle! All I can say now is "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night".

Osterley

Holland Park!!! Is this just copying my marvellous moves? It's just a little further up the page, for heavens' sake.

I fear we are entering a loop.

Bless you, Gertrude for trying to rescue the situation, but this has gone too far!

Can I put Llyn Tegid in Nidd?

For the rest of the game?!

Grudgingly, Greenford.

Oh dear, Myrtle. Would you like a glass of the under-gardener's home-brewed herbal tincture? It's 80 degree proof very good for the nerves.

Ickenham

My, what a night I missed there. I hope I don't rustle any feathers with Covent Garden.

Thank you, Gertrude. That herbal tincture settled my nerves so well I found myself under a hedge this morning after I wandered outside to admire the herb beds.

Much more refreshed now.

Heading north on the Northern Line to Totteridge and Whetstone.

I do believe that Southgate would be appropriate in the circumstances