It might on the Northern Line but eventually we all go to Mornington Crescent!

[TragicMuse]

Quickly setting up the new thread before we run out on the previous!

At the conclusion of the last thread @Vaguelyclassical played White City, followed by @LittleBitOfBread using a plinth to get us to Tooting Broadway.

It naturally followed that I simply must follow the line. Belsize Park.

Ah! Croxley

I’m rather discombobulated by that plinth - doesn’t that put the Victoria line into knockings? - but I think I can through via

Turnham Green

I think it's fine if you remember the Parahelion Rule (1978(?) correct me if I have that wrong though).

Parahelion 1978. Wasn't that thrashed out when the players had moved on from Gin and Madrigals to Campari and Interpretive Dance?
Speaking of which . . . Earl's Court.

Ah, the era of interpretative dance. I remember at the training weekend, when the Colonel and the junior underwriter attempted to convey Parahelion ‘78 (and its significant departure from the principles of Parahelion ‘61) through the medium of interpretative dance. It all got most confusing, and the junior underwriter strained several ligaments.

Vauxhall

Vaguelyclassical, yes, I think so. The Campari was largely a success, I'd say, although the Third Secretary would probably beg to differ.

Perivale, I think.

May I join you?

West Ealing

And talking of Campari, is it too early for a bicyclette?

Never, ever too early for a bicyclette!

Earls Court

Welcome, Duck! Have you been on your usual summer trip? How is the retired admiral these days?

Elm Park, if I may (with an Occluded Left).

I have indeed, Always. And I’m happy to report that the retired admiral is much as usual.

Bow Church

A word in your shell-like, AlwaysExtraHot. It’s best not to enquire too deeply about DuckOnABike’s occasional breaks from the game of games because, well, if you were at the Bridport tournament in 2006 you’ll remember.

Pimlico

What happens in Bridport stays in Bridport. Well. Mostly.

Ahem.

Is it apposite to introduce a conflated wrangle to Hyde Park Corner? Yes. I believe it is…

Make of that what you will, it was my last one and I’ve been saving it.

Maud, I was indeed at Bridport. And whatever anyone tells you about my Saturday morning with the trestle tables in the scullery is categorically untrue.
I only asked after Duck as I remember a happy summer break we spent together with the dear old admiral once. When it comes to Gstaad in the winter, however, I do not wish to and never intrude.
Right then.
Mansion House
I feel that we're getting into the weeds now.

With the trestle tables, AlwaysExtraHot? According to my usually impeccable sources, you were on the trestle tables until, after three absinthes too many, you were under them. But you know me, I’m never one to gossip.

Tower Hill

That was the other ExtraHot.

And I do believe I can square that nice Nordic Finagle you've set up and say,
MORNINGTON CRESCENT!

And the moral of that is, never get too attentive to what did or did not happen in, by, with or from the trestle tables or people kidnap your Finagles.
Well, fanning myself in the face of @AlwaysExtraHot's, er, saucy moves, may I suggest a gentle new beginning and champagne cocktails at the Ritz . . . .
Green Park

How right you are, Vaguely.

Oval, employing Arlington's Principle (from the 2002 Accord, obviously, not the later attempt).

Wow! That was a true zinger of a game! Congratulations all and especially AlwaysExtraHot.

Stockwell on the bilateral

I’ve been reading through and although I’m certainly more than a little intimidated by the high caliber of play here - as it’s a Friday evening I’m being brave and hoping I’m allowed to join under the classic Happy Hour rules?

And if so (thanks very much) then I believe I only have the option of the somewhat obvious Leicester Square.

Hello, DurhamDime. It certainly is Happy Hour, as the pile of empty absinthe bottles behind the aspidistra will testify. Leicester Square is a splendid move in the circumstances, to which I will add

Bond Street

Hello. Better move west quickly and so on to Greenford.

I was absent from Bridport owing to a delicate matter.

Greenford, you say?

My move has to be Caledonian Road.

I’ve heard enough about Bridport ’06 to know better than to explain why. 😉