A little Mornington Crescent - anyone care to join in?

[OverAndAbove]

I just fancy a change of focus.

I'll jump right in with Great Portland Street - I think I'm entitled to do that, with it being beyond the autumn equinox, but before Halloween?

Any takers?

Sadly, after having to withdraw after my atrocious gaffe in Westminster, I will play it safe with the good old Foxe-whitely Fleckle and say

Marble Arch.

A fleckle? Admirable!

My final move for tonight will be

Stepney

Let's keep it east. Bromley by Bow. Confuses the hell out of the Kentish town mob. Check mate?

Interesting progress since I was last here...

Fairlop.

Wimbledon Park (nearly went for Wimbledon there which would have been a huge error!)

On a Monday morning, the less obvious move would be

Rayners Lane

Dash it, I suspected someone might throw in Fairlop. Buggers up my idea about Pontoon Dock...

BUT! I'll take us to Debden instead and avoid the possibly tricky Beecham Loop Effect.

Nicely avoided HeadlessLady, for that gets me out of Nidd.

Grand Lateral Shunt to Rickmansworth.

That's a move and a half, Inertia!

I feel I must try to bring out something equally epic. To make the play that suggests itself I'll have to make a Gallagher Forfeit, which I hope I don't regret if we should find ourselves on the Leavent Side later on, but here goes nothing...

Woolwich Arsenal

Ooh , bold, HeadlessLady, very bold indeed. Your daring use of the Gallagher Forfeit has left me somewhat breathless.

I'm going to have to adopt the Bridgewater Minimalisation Approach and opt for a quick hop to Greenwich (and perhaps a lie down...)

That's quite elegant, Inertia.

Where's everyone else?

In the meantime, easy does it to Loughton.

I'm going to suggest Arnos Grove (it's often overlooked as an option as it lacks glamour but it does have the advantage that it ensures that no player can end up in Nid for at least 20 moves or until a dissected lateral is played on a Friday whichever happens first).

You make an excellent point and a good move, toaster.

I'm saying West Finchley, for obvious (parlay-based) reasons.

Hmm. I'm struggling to keep up here, but I'll go for now with

Highbury & Islington

Nonsense, Maud, you're a fighter and an excellent player.

I will skip from there to Ickenham, with the help of the Standard Cut-Off (Werner 2000).

You are too kind!

Headless for a minute there I thought you meant Twickenham! But of course that would be madness. Next stop: Kew Gardens.

Good God, of course not!

Kew Gardens, eh? That's obviously only permissible if the old Carpington is observed, but I see from your previous play that you've been ultra-diligent about that.

Blackhorse Road, playing my last remaining Unchuck, and MC in... four, I think.

Oh headless, now there's a challenge. Blackfriars.

A challenge indeed. Have had this one up my sleeve for ages, so now that we've bypassed Strowger's Universal (1934, updated 2011), I'll play

Gospel Oak

Sorry, Curioustiger, have I done something to offend?

No Maud, it's the sheer audacity of Gospel Oak.... On a Monday!

I'm going to have consider my next move very, very carefully.

Well, as I said, I have been biding my time with that move. If you had played any station east of Blackfriars we would - considering that the HeadlessLady has exhausted all her Unchucks - have been pulled into Strowger's Universal and it could all have been very different.

I have put my prosthetic leg on backwards and am declaring a westwise perpendicular shunt to:

Chalfont (including Latimer)

Do you see what I did there?