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

Ahhh. A blowy Sunday just past the middle of the month. I am drawn by the siren call of the river, the muddy foreshore, the romance of gate and ladder and slipway. I spot a long, thin, shape, a something, in the mud. What's this? Washed clean in the lapping tide, a pin. A 400 year old pin. I put it in my lapel. And squelch onward to Bermondsey

Have you been overdoing it on the vermouth again, TragicMuse? It always makes you maudlin.

Borough

Gertrude, my main memory of those Bergen playoffs is that ski instructor in the cocktail bar afterwards. You remember, I'm sure. I still raise a dirty martini to the memory occasionally.

A double backshift to Pimlico.

Assuming that was the year passports were confiscated and Brexit was first mooted, you all have a lot to answer for!

I know it’s early to go south of the river but
Battersea Power Station

Invoking alphabet rule.

Bayswater

Ooh. We haven't played this rule for a long time. Highly diverting, in every sense.

Cockfosters

In the same spirit covent garden

I'm sorry but I have to flout the alphabet thing; that piece-pick by Seaside above has given me a opportunity I cannot let go to waste:

Finsbury Park

Lateral to Morden

Ignoring the renegades and reverting to the alphabet rule:

Deptford Bridge

Deptford Bridge? Unusual, but I can see your reasoning.

It's a toughie, but I'm going with Ealing Broadway.

Since it's Michaelmas term, I can extend to Liverpool Street.

Farringdon. For alphabetical reasons. But also using my wild card.

A Peyton reverse to Euston

Careful, @TragicMuse , you only get so many wild cards, and they can come in very handy in the later rounds.

As the original invoker, I can disenvoke the alphabet rule, and am now heading to Turnham Green

Bold! Very bold. But it now means I can move to St James's Park.

Hmmm. Tricky.

A Hutchinson's Reverse to Upney

The London Overground rule helps me to Romford.

Thought provoking, Llyn.

Walthamstow Queen’s Road

Maybe a tad unconventional but it's late in the evening Brixton

Oh. Ah. Ummmm

Finchley Road and Frognal.

Ah, the very same move made in the north eastern quarter finals just last April.
I shall make the not so obvious nice to Richmond thus avoiding the Cawley-Stofold Trap.

Amongst players of this calibre, no explanation will be necessary:

Victoria

Beautiful move @GertrudeJekyllAndHyde , however, it quite obvious what you're trying to do... So, in response... Sloane Square

Curses! Foiled again. I shall redouble my efforts with

High Street Kensington