Mornington Crescent

REGP · July 02, 2012, 07:00:20 PM

Pendy
Have they got a station at Nidd? If not where's that spare platform gone. We could move that and get you out.

Ray

Mustermark · July 02, 2012, 07:21:43 PM

With me in spoon and Pendy in nidd, we could end up with a dead game if we are not careful. So,

Headstone Lane

Pengi · July 02, 2012, 07:37:55 PM

Quote from: REGP on July 02, 2012, 07:00:20 PM
Pendy
Have they got a station at Nidd? If not where's that spare platform gone. We could move that and get you out.

Ray

That is a brilliant idea - I'm now out of Nidd

Quote from: Mustermark on July 02, 2012, 07:21:43 PM
. . . we could end up with a dead game if we are not careful. So,

Headstone Lane

. . . where I am digging up

King George V

Mustermark · July 03, 2012, 03:06:27 AM

Mrs Nesbit called me today to tell me that she had moved house. Well flat, I suppose. She moved from a rather nice Edwardian top floor flat on Long Acre near Covent Garden to a slightly smaller, but more importantly ground floor apartment in South Kensington (or South Ken as she calls it). She told me that she had engaged the services of a moving company that seems to comprise three Dutch brothers; of the van Mann Family. Ruud, Weit and Dojjie are apparently identical triplets. She said they were very reasonably priced, but the ride across town was quite a hair raising experience. It seems they packed her in the back of the transit still sitting in her favourite French imported rococo wingback armchair. She was pleasantly reassured that nothing went missing in the move and expressed her surprise because she is sure she has seen Weit van Mann on Crimewatch before now. Anyway, in accordance with Mrs Nesbit's relocation I shall move us to the house-warming party at...

South Kensington.

REGP · July 03, 2012, 09:54:02 AM

With all this stuff going on in the city I have had to go to Bank

PLD · July 03, 2012, 09:58:23 AM

Quote from: REGP on July 03, 2012, 09:54:02 AM
With all this stuff going on in the city I have had to go to Bank

And from Bank it's a fast train to Heathrow Terminal 4 to take the Yank Bank ex-Boss home...

REGP · July 03, 2012, 09:59:35 AM

The quicker the better

Pengi · July 03, 2012, 03:44:46 PM

I'm making a Serpentine movement, as defined by the equation x²y + aby - a²x = 0, where ab > 0 (but I'm not telling you what a or b are)

from Heathrow Terminal 4 to

Loughton

PLD · July 03, 2012, 04:41:02 PM

Silly Girl. B- for maths, you forgot to carry the 2...

That equation only gets us to Leyton....

Pengi · July 03, 2012, 04:50:04 PM

Aw shucks, this is why I never won at cards - missed out the 2 when calculating the odds.

Once a gambler, always a gambler . . .

Pontoon Dock

Mustermark · July 03, 2012, 10:27:56 PM

I would have thought a serpentine movement would end us up in Hyde Park.

Quote from: Pendy on July 03, 2012, 03:44:46 PM
as defined by the equation x²y + aby - a²x = 0

Today's Sesame Street was brought to you by the letter i and the number 3.14159265358979323846

I was chatting with another ex-pat Brit in the pub (The "Yank and Chain" on Old Krapper Rd) last night. His name is Warren Peece. Nice chap but dull. Very high brow and he does go on and on. He was telling me how Blackfriars station reopened back in Feb this year after nearly three years of rebuilding. It now has entrances to the platforms on both banks of the river, which he was sure is unique. Mayor Boris (or BJ to his mates) had been admiring it at the opening and Warren had joked with him about it being as clean as a Swiss maternity ward. Blackfriars is also an overground station on the Bedford to Brighton route.

How about Blackfriars for our next stop. All change for a nice day out in Brighton!

Pengi · July 04, 2012, 06:54:39 AM

Quote from: Mustermark on July 03, 2012, 10:27:56 PM

How about Blackfriars for our next stop. All change for a nice day out in Brighton!

What a wonderful idea! I'm not falling into your trap and declaring Brighton, as I'd be Off-side.

I was not nearly as familiar with Warren Peece as you as I don't tend to move in such highbrow circles (or should I say lassos since the line was extended to Hammersmith)

I can cast my mind back to happier days at the Oval, watching the notorious West Indian fast bowler, Devons Road, bowling many a maiden over. He was devastating in the covers and lightning in the slips.

Devons Road

H · July 04, 2012, 07:23:17 AM

Right, my turn:

Alperton

That should put the cat amongst the pideons and have some reaching for their map books.

H.

PLD · July 04, 2012, 09:01:38 AM

Ah yes our old friend Al' Perton. (nice chap except he modelled in that funny 00 scale...) I believe he was a good friend of Rich' Mond.

REGP · July 04, 2012, 09:11:59 AM

Was he aquatinted with Stan More? You know the chap who got hooked on Jublies only to walk into a wall between platforms 9 & 10 at Kings Cross looking for Apple Dor.