If it's October it must be Mornington Crescent

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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

I accept the decision to be in Nidd and will make no further moves in this game. I will follow its progress with interest.

Oh no, LlynTegid. No need to be so harsh. I'm sure the rules of MC (most versions anyway, barring the Worksop Exemption) allow you to rejoin the game as soon as someone plays a lefthanded pivot on the Northern line.

Paddington

Blasted Worksop. How long will that exemption rule hang over the game?

Baron's Court.

Ah! Gertrude's herbal tincture has mollified me - it really does work wonders! I can do the left-handed pivot on the Northern Line to Golders Green tomove anyone out of Nidd.

A lateral diversion to green park

Oh, I can't credit for the herbal tincture. It's entirely of the under-gardener's invention and manufacture. It was purely by chance I came across it under the potting bench, when the young lieutenant invited me into his glasshouse to see his pelargoniums. Thinking of which

Covent Garden

Pelargonium, geranium, potato, potahto...

I am drawn, inexorably, moth-to-candle-like, to pastures west. North west even.

Stanmore.

Just as I was drawn to the pelargonia.

Shepherds Bush Market

How splendid!

For the very first time, because it's a new station and because of the move to Covent Garden and Shepherd's Bush Market I can play Nine Elms! Which is of course where New Covent Market moved over 30 years ago.

Oh my, the satisfaction of a virgin move! If I inform MCHQ, can I invoke the Malibu Memorandum to claim an extra move at my next turn?

Nice try, @Myrtle . (But nice move as well).

Canada Wharf

Yes, a good wheeze but I think we all remember what happened the last time a hapless player petitioned MCHQ to initiate the Malibu Memorandum. I shall avoid all such unpleasantness with a reverse slide to

Stockwell

You've got to give a girl credit for trying!

It's not far so I'm travelling to
Vauxhall.

Well, Myrtle, they say girls just wanna have fun, as anyone who was at last year's grand finale will recall only too well. I shall now move to the epicentre of fun -

South Wimbledon

Well I never! Have you been stalking me, Gertrude? I lived not far from there about a decade ago.

I'll retreat to another old stomping ground in order to open up the game a little.

Leyton

Well if we're revisiting old haunts seven sisters

No, I haven't been stalking you, Myrtle. I have no need as the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is a very dear friend (naturally, we met on the MC circuit) and had mentioned a few of their, ahem, concerns. But I'm never one to gossip so shall leave it there.

Turnpike Lane

I could write a lot about old haunts and connections to the game of games. As Advent has begun it would be inappropriate.

You mean the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis? My brother. We have had quite the amusement at the ridiculous things you will believe about me.

St James's Park, former site of New Scotland Yard.

I wondered whether he might be feeding me disinformation but, coincidentally, what he told me matched what I found in the national archives, the court circular and the dark web. You can't throw me off the scent so easily, Myrtle.

Clapham South

Gosh.

Might I throw calm upon the waters with a nimble volta to Bond Street.

Some retail therapy perhaps? A new hat? A lorgnette?

If you have anything you want to accuse me of, Gertrude, then let's have it. I'm at Piccadilly Circus.

Gosh, I've missed much, haven't I?!

I'm fine, by the way, thank you for asking, just a couple of late nights with the crochet and hook circle. Some of the refreshments people bring are not entirely what a person would expect of such pillars of the local community, but I suppose it all greases the social wheels. That's what I told the répétiteuse, anyway, who was somewhat abashed at where she woke up after last Saturday's session.

Without further ado, Highgate (using an inverted Peg Point).

Excuse my turning up so late. At TragicMuse's suggestion, I have spent a happy afternoon at LorgnetteSavers, picking out something chic and stylish for my festive wardrobe. One must stay up to date with current trends, n'est-ce pas?

West Acton

That reminds me, Monocles-R-Us have a rather good December deal on.

A upper-cut Mason to Liverpool Street

An upper cut Mason would give me access to Overground. ( I Don't know if it is a very wise move at this juncture) but it's worth a try *White Hart Lane"