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?

:: applauds ::

Congratulations, Albert - a really elegant move.

So who's going to start the first game of 2014?

::expectant::

Well, haven't I missed a lot??!

Well done on your win, Albert. And happy new year to all. I feel a bit of a cheat, staying away for weeks and then waltzing back in and claiming the first move, but if no one else is biting:

Bounds Green.

Yippee! We're off! So now for a triangulated snurdle to

Green Park

A bold and imaginative move, Maud! Wasn't this how the 1972 Final began?

I'll keep with the theme and try a Dowager's Gambit to Leytonstone.

Thank you, MooncupGoddess. The recent astonishingly high standard of play made me think that a snurdle might be appreciated. I am really ::cough:: far too young to remember the 1972 final but have of course read the eye-witness accounts that were appended to the Grand Adjudicator's searing investigative report. So, from here on to

Turnpike Lane

I've a feeling Turnpike Lane featured heavily in that report, Maud, and not in a particularly good way...

but I think we'll be OK as long as we avoid Bakerloo Particulates. So:

Aldgate East.

Hmm. As there has been no play over the weekend, thereis a risk of nidd, but I think I can avoid it if we go to

Oval

Sorry all! (It's Headless Lady, btw; just had a fairy namechange).

Bethnal Green keeps us out of nidd and also allows for a bit of creativity pace the Bartholomew Agreement of 2004.

I'm disappointed; I had an image in my head of HeadlessLady as a terrifying ghoul swathed in a black cape and galloping hell for leather down a dark woodland ride. Hard to sustain this with your new name.

It's Epiphany, so I can chuck in a wildcard and go for Kingsbury.

Just namechanged again. Like it?

I AM a terrifying ghoul, by the way, whatever my name. Galloping and leather and all

Quadricidal tangent to Stamford Brook. See? Terrifying.

hastily followed by a whimper of fear and a swift retreat to the safe surroundings of Elmchurch

Fucking - I take it you've noted the Wuthloc Variations 2014... They were in the Complex Addendums 36th Edition (I just bought it myselft)

I'm astonished at the quadricidal tangent - something I'm 100% sure Cannock would never have played.... tsk

In that vein, I'm going for a backward turnwise half shunt to Pimlico...

Oi, I AM Cannock (Spartacus?)! Just fancied a change of image. She/I would most certainly have played that QT if the circumstances called for it, which in that case I don't think anyone could convince me that they didn't.

Goddess is on an interesting tip there with Elmchurch. I'm inspired by that to play a Mill-Hawking to Queens Park.

Hmm. Some very challeng

... ing moves here. I've been re-reading Miller and Chernivsky 1947 and so fancy

Oxford Circus

So that takes me perfectly to the safety of tower hill

I MAY live to regret this, but I'll pull a Fotheringay and say Park Royal.

Cheers FuckingCannock - I'm in Lood now.

Oh no, Albert - can I wrest you to safety with a swift Perivale?

Assuming of course Mooncup that you have invoked the Blenkisop Staple, then I humbly thank you for your kind thoughts.

Now... Perivale to High Barnet via a Wolfswinkel Curve (or Bocht - if we're being parochial)

'FuckingCannock'

Albert, Lood is avoidable under Werthenbaker in these circs. But anyway, Goddess has heroically got you out through other means, so we can just crash on...

To Snaresbrook! And don't spare the horses!

East India Dock Road. The little used (or understood) 'Portcullis' manoeuvre.

I had heard of that, now you mention it, but it had to be dredged up from the depths of memory.

Square martingales notwithstanding, I think I can make a Firth Swap and go to Colindale (northbound only).