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Baptist Trainfan
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Lowestoft Central.
You can't get further east than that (well, obviously you can if you go to somewhere like Vladivostok - which then invites the question of when going east actually becomes west and you're coming back the other way. And there's not too many railways in Polynesia).
See what you've done now with your talk of the Circle Line!
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kingsfold
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moving the X along...
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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So that's everywhere except Zone 1 and Metrolink in Nidd, isn't it?
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No alternative but to open the game up via MediaCityUK.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Meadowhall Interchange
That's very much broken up the pack of reds, hasn't it?
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kingsfold
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Not really.
I call 2 No trumps
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AberVicar
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Can't handle this - I'm going voluntarily into Nidd until after Christmas...
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Baptist Trainfan
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Would that be Knaresborough or Pateley Bridge? We need to know, so we can winkle you back home to your nearest and dearest again ...
Perhaps he's just suffering from Acute Carolitis, and needs to be treated with an Infusion of Silent Refection.
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quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Perhaps he's just suffering from Acute Carolitis, and needs to be treated with an Infusion of Silent Refection.
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Baptist Trainfan
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I meant "Reflection" by the way - although "Refection" sounds a jolly good idea, especially around Lunchtime on Christmas Day.
However, we are still marooned in Yorkshire ...
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kingsfold
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Under the circumstances, I think St Blazey may be a good move ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Starbug
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Mevagissey Model Railway
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Nice move—especially since it sets me up perfectly for taking the HO Line that runs in circles around the Christmas Tree.
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Stuff this for a game of soldiers - Georgemas Junction. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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I could take offence, given my name is Carolus in Latin.
Meanwhile
Dronfield - I hope that helps with the Yorkshire spoon.
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kingsfold
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I thought we'd long since cleared the Yorkshire Spoon (sounds like it ought to be some kind of Morris Dance). But never mind. More importantly, what's still in Nidd? I think, however, that I ought to be relatively safe with
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Only the entire District line. Never mind.
Incidentally I couldn't sleep last night and managed to catch a live feed (all right, all right, smutty person over there) of the Australian (no) Rules Mornington Crescent pre-Christmas bash. I think about four actual tube stations got mentioned all night, and amazingly it was all within what rules they have. You know you can still move directly from any dockside UK station to any dockside station in Oz, under the Convict Transportation Directive?
I'm invoking the National Ruleset Import regulations here, therefore, in order to play Hobart
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Baptist Trainfan
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Aha! So you've gone "sarf of the river", I see. Not quite the worst crime in the Book, but it runs close.
We'll have to match that with the bucolic delights of Collier's Wood.
All Travelcard options are now open, providing that there has been no flooding at Embankment.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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On a worldwide scale, most plays are actually south of the river.
Horton in Ribblesdale, OTOH, is not.
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North Berwick mind the snow...
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Piglet
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I suppose depending on what sort of snow it is, the entire network might be in knid, so I'm off to Groudle Glen, just in time to meet Father Christmas. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Baptist Trainfan
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You shoukd try Rovaniemi if you want to meet Father C. But he might be Very Busy or even Out.
You could catch the overnight sleeper from Helsinki.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Hmm - Svalbard was played a few games ago, and I think that as there's been no break that means it's still in spoon even now, so I shan't play it now and thereby create a Arctic roll*.
With the doubling cube currently showing a 16, it's probably risky to move any counters from inner to outer table, so at the risk of being huffed and leaving one or two people with a King, I'm going to have to see your Rovaniemi and raise you Embankment.
And Stick.
*Like a Dollis Hill loop, but with fewer burger bars and more polar bears.
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kingsfold
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ah Arctic roll. Brings back no-so-fond memories of childhood. Ahem...
You need to be careful when you make moves like that that you're not leaving yourself open to the wrong sort of snow, and thus leaving the whole game stuck. At the moment however, that's not really a problem, although the wrong sort of leaves may present a hazard. And with that in mind,
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Excellent. I think that allows me to queen one of my pawns.
Doubling cube now at 32.
I have vague memories of a beer-drenched match back in my mis-spent youth where the local University Mathematics Club (yes, really) joined in. The pub had a laser display screen (very forward looking in those days) and someone had hooked up an old BBC Micro (that dates it!) to it which was able to actually track the game on a tube map.
Of course, players were not allowed to see the screen during play; otherwise you might as well give everyone a timetable and a map and be done with it. However, these guys were very good at holding images in their heads, and suddenly there was a nod from one of the mathematicians to another, a quick play of Watford Met, and then the sound of choking on beer from the chap manning the display, which now showed the word "arse" picked out in blue chips at carefully selected stations.
They lost, but got a special award for inventiveness.
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kingsfold
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Short, and to the point. And presumably presaging the battlefield that this could become if the Leamington Spa mob get wind of it.
I think therefore we should head for Spooner Row to keep under their radar.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Hmmm, not sure - there are air bases in East Anglia (Lakenheath, Marham, Mildenhall) so there's quite a lot of radar around in the area.
I'll lie low for a bit (underneath the bench on the down platform) and see what transpires. Which means we are still at Spooner Row. Not much choice really, unless a Special comes along: I've just missed the last train and there isn't another one till Monday.
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Poor you, BT. If you stay there too long you'll get arrested for loitering (or something like that), which would be very embarrassing with you being a Man Of The Cloth and all that. I can see the headline in the East Anglian Daily Times ...
To avert this unmitigated disaster, may I suggest Wick which, although it doesn't have any air-bases, does have a de-commissioned nuclear power station not far away.
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Welease Woderwick
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Erm, Liverpool Street?
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Baptist Trainfan
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I'm not worried about the East Anglian Daily Times. But the Ipswich Star is another matter.
Come to think of it, much of the editorial content's the same, anyway.
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Welease Woderwick
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Cheltenham Spa
That should cause some confusion.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Spa Road (Bermondsey). That really will put them off the scent, but may be seen as incriminating.
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I've just discovered a stash of blue counters down the back of the sofa, probably enough to get me to Piccadilly Circus, which should take the heat off BT for a wee while ...
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Welease Woderwick
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Oh dear me, I'm going to get pilloried for this but I'm taking us all back to
Hainault
at least it is in the Sacred County.
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Oh dear me, I'm going to get pilloried for this but I'm taking us all back to
Hainault
at least it is in the Sacred County.
Do you know, I read that as the Scared County? I have cousins who live in Essex and "scared" is not the first adjective I would apply to them or the part of the country where they live. I don't think it is an adjective that I would ever apply to them.
Come to think of it, "sacred" isn't an adjective I would apply to them or the county either, but there again, I don't live there and never have.
Now then: Sunday evening, bank holiday approaching, the whole of Zone 2 in spoon, distinct lack of any chips of any colour that will do me any good and the prospect of rain. The Picadilly line still has a good service running, even on the Uxbridge branch, so Osterley it has to be.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Piglet's generous gift of chips bought me some valuable time, but now I shall confuse my pursuers homophonically:
Lymington (Pier).
If I say it quietly and with a strong Hampshire accent, they might go in the wrong direction.
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BT, how's the validity of your passport?
Pimlico is usually helpful in such situations.
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Welease Woderwick
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Tahnk you, piglet!
Brixton
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Well that's you out of the way, anyway. I can't see you getting back from there before the tube system shuts down for Christmas Day.
Heh - you're in good company Wodders - I do wecall, I mean recall, the great Deb Den getting herself totally roasted in a three way all-nighter as a result of a similar play on Maunday Thursday. Very much all dressed up with no place to go.
Just to ensure the game continues, I'm going to drop an Oyster into the middle of the board for Free Parking and pick up a blue chip. Which means, of course, free passage to Liverpool Street
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As it's Christmas Eve, I suggest we head off to the Swanage Railway Santa Special for a mince pie or two.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Hmm ... wasn't there a landslip nearby the other day? The principle is good but it sounds a bit risky IMO.
I'df thought about going to Brockford on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway instead, but they're closed.
So let's go to Holt on the North Norfolk instead. It's nearer the North Pole anyway.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Actually, reminiscing about the lovely Deb, whose MC career began in our neck of the woods in the Hillstown and Palterton Chapter of the N E Derbyshire MC Order, brings to mind another incident. We were on a Chapter outing to the Peak, and called in to this pleasant tea room situated in a working farm. We were quite a large party, so the proprietor extended the seating area into a working barn, from where we ordered some sandwiches.
I particularly enjoyed that roll in the hay with Deb, as did everyone else that day.
Simple pleasures in a more innocent time.
Mudchute. Has to be, really.
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Welease Woderwick
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M...M...M...Mansion House
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Later, Deb's on-off boyfriend joined us. It was a bit of tricky afternoon after that point, but I understand that after we dropped them off she confided that she was disappointed that he'd not bought her the necklace she wanted for Christmas, he nipped to a little shop he knew and the next morning he knocked her up and gave her one.
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What can I say after that, except
Bangor
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Did anyone watch the Annual Pre-Christmas get together at Broadcasting House last year? Al Perton was the referee for the formal matches, but it was amazing what was going on at the fringe. I've never seen chocolate éclairs used in that way before in the place of signalling placeholders, but it led to some amusement. I wouldn't like to have been in Al's shoes when he tried to explain the stains to Mrs Perton, but there you go.
The organisers had very sensibly avoided having the Leamington Spa crowd spoil the show by arranging the shindig at the same time as their annual visit to the White Scar Caves. There is, however, no truth in the rumours that a number of keen MCites were seen in the Ingleton area with a quantity of bricks, cement and sand, much as one might wish it to be so.
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