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?

In which case, I will essay a further Firth Swap - much underused these days, in my opinion - to

Brondesbury Park

Quiet on here at the moment. Is everyone swotting up? [suspicious]

Anyway, I'm going for a Ropington's Mulch to Farringdon.

Nice, Headless Lady.

I'll counter it with an Augmented Placket to Tooting Bec.

I give you a simple but effective Moynihan to Dalston Kingsland.

Hmm. I would now offer a Double Stansfield, but although that would be hugely to my advantage it would put the rest of the field into nidd and I'm not feeling that ruthless. So, instead, I'll do an Intersected Noggin (post-1965 version) to

Euston Square

I would have quite reasonably played played Stanmore or Rayners Lane but as all noggin movements shunt reversed players and reversed those already shunted I'm left only with (and please stay calm in the upper circle) Holland Park

Eek.... it's all getting a bit nerve-wracking. I think my only sensible option is to draw on Marlington's Special Manoeuvres (1992 edition) and try a triple flip to Ealing Broadway.

No need to panic. Oxford Circus gives us a nice ventricular Missen.

Slow games are very suspicious ... Mansion house is the only way forward at this time

Hmm.

Tooting Broadway.

Never done this before, but I feel it's time for a Grindallian Modulation to Rayners Lane.

Very nice. So let's try a Fuller's Shift to

Russell Square

If this game is picking up a slightly faster pace, the cautious move to be made would be "embankment "

I'm going for Chorleywood. It's unconventional after a Fishbeck to Embankment like the one Olive just played, but obviously the Victoria line is trumps here, so all is well.

some shrewd play going on hereabouts. hmmmm

Ill offer a half-schunk to Knightsbridge

Albert!! This move made me laugh... I can see what your up to its clever thinking ....but I'm going to slide right in there with a move to notting hill gate

Lovely to see some of the really classic moves being played. At this point I suggest a double parallel reverse shunt (with pike since it is a Wednesday in January) to Amersham.

A straightforward lunge (or is it?) to

Clapham North

'or is it' indeed? Cunning, Maud.

I'll say Upper Holloway. Perkins' Affidavit 1977.

Getting into mind games territory now, I see.

I'm going to call Skimbleshanks and trump Wankwings' Upper Holloway with New Cross Gate. Ha!

Mind games? Moi? [innocent]

New Cross Gate when the District has been retrograded (by Olivegirl back at Embankment upthread) allows me to fill in the Bakerloo triangulate I was a bit worried about and take us safe and sound to...

East Ham

Assuming we are accepting the Helsinki Convention Rules to avoid further complications I suggest Baker Street (which does of course mean we cannot get to Mornington Crescent in less than 221 moves unless a player wearing a deerstalker hat is in Nid).

You said 'less' where in fact 'fewer' was correct, nulling and voiding the 221-moves rule [pedant]

Sooooo, I can say Heathrow Terminal 4 (with a half-smank, obviously) and we will certainly be at MC within, oooh, six moves, with a fair wind?

Six moves? Can believe your not seeing it! ... Watch what I do ....." Pudding mill lane" ... Getting to mc with a lot less moves than six... Or maybe I'm hoping players wont see what I'm seeing

Do accept my apologies FuckingWankwings - trying to do too many things at once, I should really have been concentrating more on correct posting of my moves.

I don't see less than six moves unless DLR stations were declared wild at the outset. Kensal Green to consolidate the current position.