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

Ah. Cross post.

That's an excellent move, Molly. You clearly have an jnstictive grasp of the game. Well done!

As Andrew just found, one mustn't post without playing a move, so

Coulsdon South

Well we all know who wrote the Google entry, so not wholly surprised at the misdirection, film flam and yes, I'll say it, fibs on that page. They should stay in Parliament where that type of thing is expected.
So that's where pater's wine stores went! That's my birthright. By now it will be two bottles of snowball and a litre of Blue Nun.
Rip on eh? From there a mere hop skip and jump to Huddersfield.

Saints has it right. I'm awfully surprised that Andrew isn't familiar with the 7s rule, given that he used to to his great advantage in the Winter MC Olympics in '88. Who can forget the look on the face of that Canadian bobsledder when his Nidd was so cruelly denied.

Molly, you seem to have a certain rustic flair for MC. Mummy Pingu's 4th husband (god rest his soul) mentioned teaching a Molly at Cheltenham Ladies College who was quite the whizz at basic MC back when she was a lowly First Former. Might that be you? I'm sure you'd remember the late, lamented stepdaddy Pingu - always wore plus fours and carried a Japanese fan. Charming chap.

No, all things considered in this daring play, I think I'll play a safe, but cheeky Stafford, southbound of course. Enough dallying in the North!

Yes but Pingu '88 was leap year . . . which makes all the difference. As you know.

The Molly you mention cannot be the newcomer (to whom welcome!) because the young lady from Cheltenham is not allowed to use a computer; terms of her parole, you know. It's for the good of us all. Especially that poor fishmonger from Halifax. He did not deserve what happened to him.

Banbury - and that, thought I say it myself, is a good move.

Oh and Maud I know where your tea-strainer is. Really, what a place to leave it, and what a thing to do with it!

Wotcha all.

Fortunately the terms of my parole do not place any exclusion on MC.

Downham Market

So glad you got your release on temporary licence, Fluffy. I know you nearly didn't, but one word to the prison governor about her attempt to gatecrash the Berkhamsted play-offs and that incident with the Magimix was enough to make her more amenable. So let's go to

Oxford

where Her Majesty's former establishment is now an hotel.

I'm just glad mines a Kenwood (bought in 1983 in Workington )

Delightful to se you Fluffy. How is the infernal tagging device working out for you? Mama Pingu's newest husband may have a few tips to pass on re disabling the dashed thing in order to escape for a nocturnal MC interlude. He was a colourful character in his day.

Be that as it may

Cutty Sark, for Maritime Greenwich

A short ride to Lewisham whilst it is still quiet on this Wednesday morning. They are oblivious to all the Berkhamsted shenanigans or even the incident in 1912 in Woolwich when some young upstart queried the existence of the closed lines rule.

I have a Kenwood too. I was hoping to get a Vitamix for Christmas, but its non-appearance leads me to assume it is being held in reserve for another present-giving occasion - like Chinese New Year or St Bridget's Day or Valentines... as Saints has pointed out it's a nice quiet morning now many of those of compulsory education age have been re-institutionalised, so I must nip to John Lewis near Bond Street to view the range whilst I am in town.

Well, if we are visiting the John Lewis Partnership we really must go to the lodestone - Peter Jones at

Sloane Square

The original John Lewis played quite good amateur MC - anyone remember Reno 46 when he played that amazing Reversi to Swansea without even stopping at Stechford as lesser mortals would ahve done?

In his memory Milford Haven.

It's fine Pingu, they omitted to notice the prosthetic leg when they fitted it, which have come on leaps and bounds in the past ten years. Unlike me who consequently hobbles unsteadily round Majestic wine in Banbury, but the nice boy there carries the Tio Pepe out to the Jag and my driver takes it from there, so I can't really complain.

Fluffy24 Was it you I saw in Banbury in RAF uniform under the robes of a Cardinal? You looked very fetching but do remember that the cap is worn peak forward.

How is the driver doing? Still on the mixed vegetables or has he kicked the habit?

Onwards and upwards. Wallingford.

Speaking of the forces, a move to Northolt so we are back in the only RAF base of note in London.

Well: if we must play Directional Rota, I suppose we must. Southminster

Oh phooey!

East Ham

And so to "Westhoughton".

Playing the closed rail lines rule, Houghton Regis

I am tempted to play another closed station which (in view of the weather at Shannon) would put the entire open network out of use for three days but that would be harsh on those amongst us who, having fewer than twelve years playing since their apprenticeship ended, might find themselves out of their depth. So I will as an act of mercy play a Rodkins Regular to East Retford.

Well, if were being fruity saints, allow me to see your closed lines and raise you a closed stations

Great Houghton Halt should complete this unholiest of trinities.

Now, as today is the Holy Day of Epiphany, I assume that the most seasoned players amongst you know the only play that could possibly come next...?

But that depends, doesn't it, on whether one agrees with the Supreme Court's ruling in Brooke-Taylor v Grand Panjandrum of MC (Second Provisional Council, Upper Division)? There are still some naysayers, despite what the leader column in the Times said. But I'm
boring you, aren't I? After all, we were all there in the public gallery as it happened.

So, without further ado

High Barnet

Come on now, Maud: when the links between the brother-in-law of the third judge on the left and the housekeeper of the Deputy Panjandrum's aunt are exposed in the Fort William Monthly Advertiser and Amateur Brain Surgeons' Gazette the case will have to be reheard.

In the meantime Ponders End.

gasps. Andrew! You've broken the terms of the superinjunction. Now all I can do to rectify things is play a dissected Downton to

Didcot Parkway

Superinjunctions are for the little people, Maud.

Bouurnemouth, and you know why. But it's not for repeating here. The First Sea Lord would not be pleased.