Mornington Crescent?!

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Will somebody please please explain to me what this is all about?

From Leyton the only way is to Stone.

Wow. I can report that the Colonel's matinee performance was really rather special. The second encore, featuring the Colonel's spirited interpretation of the encounter between Timmy the dog and uncle Quentin will be seared on my memory for a long time to come. So, in keeping with the athletic mood

Highbury and Islington

Maud - I'm glad if went well. Hiring that claque cost me a fortune.

And it wasn't easy persuading the rozzers not to show up and cart all concerned off to durance vile. I told the Commissioner that two of his deputies and three provincial Chief Constables were coming and he seemed all the keener to bang them up. In the end I mentioned the name of HRH and reminded him that he will want a peerage when he retires and he agreed to lay off if I sent him a DVD of the entire show - which I did, including the bit after the interval - and you know who you are and you ahve been warned. Especially if I say that I forgot to copy-protect it!

H and I is too Blairite for the days in which we live. I give you Taplow.

Tricky... tricky...

If we are ignoring the Cirencester covenant of 1456 and allowing Circle to be wild... that leaves the only option as Holborn

Only option, hell, that's illegal, so here's to Wargrave.

Under Volchester Party rules 1879 it is a legal move when Saturn is in the Seventh House. Which it is currently.

I'm going to take a hop, skip and a jump over to Bank which should see MC in 3.

No chance, Scorbus, I am playing Redcar - Willingdon Variation and all that.

Will someone please tell the Lt-Commander to lower her voice? We've all heard her disgraceful reminiscences life-story before!

Mater was surprisingly sang-froid about Pater's performance. Usually his interface (as bil is wont to say, the tosser) with ballet folks usually ends up in a raucous game of sardines in the servants quarters with the Bolshoi. It's his dream fulfilled. Well the one that is legal in all states of the US and severeral Pacific islands. I blame the copious amount of pink gins in her thermos for the old girls lack of concern.
Damn fine move there Andrew and prefaces my Stevenson's parlay neatly. Of course, it's York.

Why didn't I think of this before? The mention of the Pacific has brought back memories of Tonga in '58, when the Professor of Linguistics (always a slippery cove) and the Master of the Rolls conspired to get the Hapsburg Protocol overturned. It set back MC by thirty years, in my view, but it does leave me free to play

Droitwich

I always say, and I stand by it, that the Habsburg protocol went the way of all flesh with the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. There was absolutely no need for the Prof and the MR to get up to all those shenanigans although it was fun to watch, especially when the Prof dropped the tin-opener and the MR found he had brought the wrong edition of Chicken Sexing for Profit and a Cheap Illicit Thrill, wasn't it?

Warley West - where else?

Well, you're hardly impartial in the matter are you, Andrew, given the (cough) closeness of your relationship with half the formerly crowned heads of Europe? I understand that virtually everyone in Luxembourg is your second cousin, lovechild or both.

But we're a forgiving lot here, so

St Leonard's Warrior Square

It is a good job that the strike on Southern has been ended, as otherwise we would have been stranded in St Leonard's. So a day at the races seems a nice summer diversion, assuming there is some at Plumpton

Maud I am a mere nobody - only quinze quartiers to my name. And in Luxembourg - the Isle of Wight of the European continent - everyone is related.

Dymchurch I think - quiet but strangely attractive.

The train has now finished its restoration and I play the heritage railway rule to move to Dungeness

Yes, but the Northern Line restrictions are back on so I play Shanklin - ich kann nicht anders -and declare Roddings void until Thursday.

No, no, I'm not having that.
Not after the 2015 David + White amendment.
And so close to a bank holiday as well.

Right, I'm going to the only place I can after that.

Stratford... Wait for it.... High street.

Smirks.

Hmm, no Roddings eh. Well that puts my planned sideways folie to Leicester up the spout. Well, I have had an urgent call from Slinky Secundus, I believe it's The Usual Problem, which necessitates a swift journey to Manchester...Victoria.

Do you not see how close it is to being a bank holiday?

Mmmmkay, SHS has been thwarted, I see slinky has perfected Adgharts art of pretending not to see the last move.

Very shrewd, Slinky

In that case, I'm going with...

Carpenders Park

You tell Secundus to stand on his own feet. All he needs is a pack of saveloys, a box of Lego, and seventeen used staples, and he can sort himself out. Unless, of course, he's been on the custard creams again in which case there's not much any of us can do.

It's time for something bold, imaginative, and innovative but at this hour on a Sunday there's no chance of that, so let's take refuge in Preston.

Ah yes, dear little Slinky Secundus. I think he and my own dear Aloysius were at St Cake's together, until that unfortunate happening with the captain of the third XI, the piano stool and the sack of kumquats led the headmaster to suggest that Aloysius might thrive in an alternative seat of learning.

I'm feeling adventurous, so after that helpful reminder about David & White (thanks, WeDoNotSow) I'm heading for

Bodmin Parkway

Kumquats? I always heard that it was limes. No wonder the head was so shirty. There are a lot of pips in kumquats as WeDoNotSow will remember all too well!

In view of last week's eclipse: Aberystwyth and anyone who thinks of trying to be ckever don't - this is professional MC and we are all familiar with Rule 232(a)(xiii).

IT decimated the cast of that year's production of Rent-the school version I can tell you.
Well this only means a transverse oblique can be played, so cross country to Kingston-upon-Hull. Andrew my poppet, you know that all versions of rule 23 become null and void if any member of the MC Ruling Council have received an Olympic gold with 30 days,

Kumquats? Are they allowed on trains? This seems a breach of the exotic fruit rule of 1973.

As for the 2017 City of Culture, the best thing about it is the line out. The second best is the M62. So off I go to Selby pdq.

Slinky dear heart - you know that the original 1823 version comes back into force if the entire Ruling Council get medals as happened at the cancelled games of 1944 and again at Rio this month. Even if one was a bronze for widgetry.

Incidentally - someone on the Telly Vision thing said that Rio was no longer the capital of Brazil. Is that right? And where was the Emperor?

Doncaster - and frankly Saints it serves you right.

Slowly we go back to the smoke, so it is to Great Chesterford, via Cambridge and the elongated platform I go.