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

Well now you're just showing off.

Elephant and Castle

Hmm. This all seems highly irregular, but I'm keen to master some of the newer moves so popular with the younger generation of players of the game of games, so I'll add a marginal Swift to

Totteridge and Whetstone

@GertrudeJekyllAndHyde , that move took ten years off you.

In contrast, I'm showing my age with a Hambleton's 5th to Greenwich.

Indeed you are, @Seaside1234. You should really catch up with BasedVibes' MC on TikTok. Her moves are getting a lot of likes.

Like Hanwell.

But you probably won't even get it.

Ooh always appreciate a new insight into the game of games. Brixton

Exciting stuff!
Fermat's Fission Rule allows me to say
Plaistow

Well if we're going to include some science I will balance that with Austen's Eloquence.

Waterloo

I think a move to Lambeth North is a sensible one.

I'll show you sensible.

Acton Town.

Embracing the return to first principles. A Simpsons slide to Euston

With a heavy heart, I'm left with no alternative but to move a longitudinal demi-shunt to

Nine Elms

Gosh, that was clunky.

But it does open the way to

Farringdon

Because of size the gap between the platform and carriages at Farringdon, you know what's allowed...

I'm feeling generous because our stables just welcomed a new thoroughbred Arabian for stud, and our falconer has said a new Peregrine has just hatched. Wildly out of season, but I'll accept the good fortune.

I will let someone else make the move and take the glory.

What, Holborn?

An Shaw's Slip to Gunnersbury

A perfect set-up for a return to

Turnham Green

A slippery twist takes me to Walthamstow.

A lateral shunt takes us to bounds green

Oh bother... I think that puts me in Nidd.

Yes, I rather think you are.

Let's see.

<hard thinking>

...

<more hard thinking>

...

Yes, I think if I take a hemispherical approach and take into account the additional hour when the clocks went back, I can go to Morden.

And I think that also gets you out of Nidd. But can someone else check my sewing to be sure?

The incomplete station name rule means we are back at Turnham Green. A rule first played I understand at the 1927 tournament when someone forgot that there were at the time at least two Ealings.

Remembering not to fall into that trap, a move to Ealing Common.

Unsure of Nidd State... Hesitant move to Northolt

In an attempt to score a Huffington I will chance a move off the central line to Wimbledon

Good morning! The comrades at the Steppes are in agreement and ready. And that is all I can say about my recent absence and it's probably too much.

I see we've had some noble play...how exciting! The last time I was involved in a match with a crowned head there were heady scenes in the ballroom, chandeliers and all. The maids were not happy.

Ho hum.

Gloucester Road

What ho, everyone! Frog, you're definitely clear of Nidd now after the last few moves created that Mitcham's sequence.

Marble Arch for me, calling in my Aitkinson's Allowance.