Mornington Crescent....

[BratFarrarsPony]

Well as I won the last game fairly and squarely despite not being as quick as the old lags....I will start another game.

Gants Hill

I believe you - I remember her and I know of which parish she is now the Rector. And how she got the job. And where the Bishop's letter are hidden. He thought he could hide the truth by writing them in classical Sanskrit but that nice Uzbek coal-miner, the one with the peculiar trick with the Maltesers, sorted that out, didn't she?

Tadcaster.

There is some lovely beer brewed in God's own country. Tadcaster is one. So let us go to another place where lovely beer is brewed- Keighley

Hmm. These days, if you're seeking artisan beer, you should head back to the metropolis and, specifically

Brixton

Or go via Euston and then the Bank Branch of the Northern line to Camden Town for the local artisan brewery there. Avoiding the Hawley Arms where no-one has ever been know to play the game of games.

Well, Camden does have the advantage of being near the epicentre, the very heartland, of this hallowed game, I grant you.

Hassocks

Hassocks to you too, Maud, or to put it another way Ballsbridge

I'm catching the overnight ferry back to Holyhead and then on to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllrogerchwyrndrobllllantisiliogogogoch

Oh, not again. You're clearly trying to plunge us into Nidd with that artless parallelogram, but you've forgotten that Welsh stations are in stebbings until the next full moon (and possibly longer if the AM doesn't make bail).

Shrewsbury

Time to edge further away from the Principality towards the metropolis via the Chiltern line, to Bicester North

How are we with the Scottish stations?

I'd like to suggest Thurso.

Failing that, Truro.

Compromise.

Towcester

The journey back to London begins. Using the closed rail line rule to begin with. Hemel Hempstead

The closed rail line has been officially put in Nidd. Good job I'm stuck in 1985, so I'm not subject to the Cat Fancy Stipulations regarding such repetition :

Closed line rule (version 4.5 - Easthampstead variation) catapults us headlong to Mortlake

It is a bit foggy by the river this morning which presents opportunities for a brisk walk, stopping to photograph the wildlife. So Barnes by the wildfowl area seems a good place to go.

Sorry for going AWOL. It has been a fraught time at work; the Minister is terrified that stories about her 'special party' have got out, and has been attempting a charm offensive with the Whips which has only made them more suspicious.

The clocks have changed back and the moon is full - so many exciting possibilities! I'm going to draw on the 1966 Jenkins Revisions (a crucial development in the history of the game, rather neglected by the historians for some reason) and try a elongated splice to Abergavenny.

I was unaware of the Jenkins revisions, not named after the Home Secretary of the time I suggest, as he ended the practice of putting the clocks back, only for Parliament to change their mind in the early 70s. He also made divorce easier which I suspect helped Mummy Pingu.

Back down the valley to Newport.

Which, this being so dangerously near to Advent, takes us to the other and better Newport and thence to Ryde.

The incomplete station name rule takes us back to the station before last and so from Newport we move to Chippenham, the kind of place where Mummy Pingu could retire were she mindful to. A town where the game of games would be played with peace and quiet and without the kind of incidents seen in 2001 in Stockholm.

It wouldn't be peaceful if Mummy Pingu were there, would it?

Calne

We should try to be back in the capital for the commemorations on November 11th.

So on the train to Didcot Parkway as the first part of that journey.

I know it's obvious and I may end up in Nidd but, well Paddington. I will accept the sacrifice just to get us back to the capital.

The waters of Nidd run deep and cold. This being the anniversary of the Mauerfall you cannot avoid the detour to Berlin - Alexanderplatz

Followed by the visit to Bornholmer Strasse where the wall was first opened, as it were.

I made this journey myself three years ago and further along the course of the former wall had Mrs Merkel interrupt my walk. I did not have the change to ask if she had ever played the Spiel de Spielen.

Did you not know? She was runner up in the first amateur tournament in Brandenburg after the reunion. I am told she plays an impressive Schlegelhalter.

Kurfürstendamm

Apparently that well known alleged tax avoider Paul Hewson aka Bono is going to be performing in Trafalgar Square on the evening of the 11th. with his bandmates. From Kurfurstendamm a short walk will take us to the U2 U-Bahn line and so with the aid of the U-Bahn rule we can move to Potsdamer Platz