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?

[MooncupGoddess]

We're getting very close now.

Russell Square

[FuckingWankwings]

Mornington Crescent!

Ithangyew.

[MooncupGoddess]

Congratulations, Wankwings! I knew I was setting you up for it but I just couldn't see how to get there directly from Northolt.

Well played all.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

::joins in applause and general acclaim::

Well played! A reverse Boddingtob unless I'm very much mistaken, indicating play of the most advanced level. Well done again.

[FuckingWankwings]

Maud has the answer to your question, Goddess. I'm glad I swotted up a bit over Christmas; wouldn't have remembered the ol' Rev. Boddingtob otherwise!

Thanks all. I'm basically just honoured to have such wonderful playmates

Who's starting the next round then?

[KateSMumsnet]

May I be so bold?

Liverpool Lime St!

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Thank you, Kate. I'll play one of my favourite moves to

Warren Street

[KateSMumsnet]

Never had you down for Bodanjiddler ComeIntoTheGardenMaud! That was what you were doing right?

[FuckingWankwings]

Are we turning a blind eye to Liverpool Lime St and assuming that the intention was Liverpool St?

I think that was an example of Bodanjiddler, KateS. Nicely done, Maud, and when the rest of us are barely out of the blocks too! I feel outclassed.

Right.

Turnham Green.

[AlbertGiordino]

KateS terrible behaviour - causing confusion.

So I'm playin two moves.

Peckham Rye
and
Port Sunlight

Congrats on the Crescent FuckingCannock

[FuckingWankwings]

Thanks for the congrats, Albert. But Port Sunlight?!? I'm ignoring that too.

I'll play a simple but elegant Radley's Backhand to Cannon Street.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Aha. A chance for me to play one of my favourite moves - a Chancellor's Fandangle to

Hangar Lane

[flamingtoaster]

Can I just add some late congratulations to WankWings - beautifully done I have to say. Since a wildcard has not yet been played I suggest a Triple Trellis Half Strile to Monument.

[Olivegirl]

Just back to check on how play is going?
I'm amazed at the crafty moves that are going on here.

I struggled with this one but I'm going west " park royal"

[AlbertGiordino]

Nice Olive, cultured moves there. I like it.

I'm going for a Lumington, in order to avoid Eddingtons, and end up in...

Ravenscourt Park

[MooncupGoddess]

Some great moves here. Given that the Victoria line is wild it really has to be

Pimlico

[FuckingWankwings]

Thank you, toaster! Always a pleasure playing with you lot, I must say but even better when I win

I LIKE that Lumington, Albert. I think it's set the scene very nicely for a Fotheringay's Hump to Angel (under the Crieff Clause from 2009's Maastricht Distinction).

[flamingtoaster]

Given the quality of the moves being played I feel the only choice is to use the Blackheath gambit (with bypass on the diagonal) to Barking.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Hmm. That narrows my options but I think I can manage a Snyrdle to

Temple

[FuckingWankwings]

A hectoring pike to Oakwood.

[AlbertGiordino]

Well I never, a Snyrdle followed by a pike of any description is risque, but a hectoring pike? Wow. Some reet serious play going on here.

I was reading the Monmouth Observations (1912) the other day and noticed that in the quarter-final of the All-Lancashire (Junior) Championships - a certain young CP Smith, was faced with a not too dissimilar board. I will take his lead and play a inverted spinal loop (turnwise) and schlimp to Bounds Green

[FuckingWankwings]

WOW Albert. That's positively rococo play there. What a flourish.

I feel that I need to cleanse the collective palate, so I'm going to essay a straightforward (yet effective) Tump to Rayners Lane.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Hmm. So that's how the game is developing, is it? In that case

Sloane Square

[flamingtoaster]

Wow - tricky. To avoid the Dollis Hill trap I will invoke Hollingsworth's Rule of Laterals (established as legal at the 1909 World Mornington Crescent Convocation - before the unfortunate incident of which no-one speaks) and take us to Bounds Green

[AlbertGiordino]

Bounds Green on a Tuesday. before the Chinese New Year is very dangerous, bordering on reckless play toaster your only saving grace is the avoidance of that of which we do not speak....

i humbly offer mudchute by way of finch's paradigm