Ah, thank God the Bishopsgate pause is over. Is three weeks a new record in non-championship play? I seem to remember Chaddington and Harvings achieving a 4 week B'gate pause in the '88 World Championships, although the word on the street was that Harvings only played it so he could go on holiday with his mistress!
Anyway, Goodge Street seems to be my best option at present.

*sniff* Hounslow West

After a faultered MC from Salamander Pudding, I feel I see an opening to play the final move as it follows on well from a sniffed Hounslow West. Using the OMICRON KAPPA ancient Greek semi-lucid velocity reduction method, I there fore play Mornington Crescent....unless there is an objection, of course.

[Pave] I've just unblocked the diagonal, so you might want to try that move again.

[rab] Pave couldn't make it unless the diagonal was in Schrodinger's - if we knew it was blocked before or if we know it's blocked now he can't make MC a winning move. However, as he's attempted the diagonal is weakened enough for me to exchange my podumes for LV reduction and strile to Mornington Crescent!