Mutters Moor - Woodpecker and Mad Max - 28 April 2019

Words by Rocky this week!

The weather was a shock as the wind was bitter cold compared to last week. Woodpecker started off saying that he had put marks in that he doesn’t believe in; fish hooks, ha ha’s and long short splits. 

Stix apologised for forgetting to bring the salad for Tampa's BBQ in three weeks time.

The first few checks came around, and one sent us straight down a hill only to find another one at the bottom sending the trail all the way back up the hill where we'd come from.

Not too long afterwards there was a long short split where the longs were sent straight down a steep hill to find a ha ha at the bottom. Bollards and Rocky arrived first, trying to fool others by hiding, but no one found it funny or impressive and it provoked no reaction.

We ran along the golf course, with Twin Peaks shouting ON FOR!

After hills and checks and lots more, we came to the sweetie stop where there was an extraordinary view over Newton Poppleford. 

Quote of the week - Child Catcher likes them hard and firm... talking about sweets (fudge and eclairs).

After that we were stopped by Son of the Bitz's tooth falling out.

Harry the dog got injured (we need to give that dog a name - what about Ducking Fog, or Son of the Shitz  - since he shares his nerd name with Son of the Bitz?)

Fines: Stingray, twin peaks and X-bitz avoiding fishhook 

Wobbly-bitz, Odd-bitz, Tampa and Imelda for being late.

Spocky for nerd naming

Next week we're at Upton Pyne Village Hall, EX5 5JA (map) for a trail laid by Twin Peaks

 

 

Haldon Belvedere *Easter Sunday* - Wide Receiver - 21st April 2019

This week it was the Easter special and was laid by Wide Receiver from Haldon. When the circle was gathered everyone cracked out the Easter yokes, which nobody was pleased for.

First, Wide Receiver put us into 6 teams and gave us each an egg!  When the team got to a check the egg had to be passed on to another team member.  He explained a bit about the EGG markings (Easter gathering games) that we would find on the hash, and how we had to carry around the egg for the entire r*n, which - when the end of the hash came round - the winner would be the team who's egg had the least damage.

At an early check, Swinger (blue team) gave the egg to Chardonnay (on a different team) and then smashed the blue teams egg into shatters.  But Speedy picked up the pieces and carried them on!

We went up to the castle where Spocky and X-bits were married. Then we got to the first EGG and it was an egg and spoon race with a twist as the person holding the egg and spoon was on another team members back. Disappointingly no one’s egg cracked.

Stix spent the rest of the trail decorating the remains of the blue team's egg with flowers.

Sadly, no one else's egg broke on the journey to the sweetie stop. Now the EGG challenge was to find as many corresponding coloured eggs to your team as possible. The stuff inside the eggs were sweets and chocolate. Many people tried to sneak there real eggs into the plastic shells, but Wide receiver had to spoil their fun by asking for all the plastic ones back .

After we departed the sweetie stop, we made are way to the final EGG challenge which was to throw there egg to another team member. If the first throws were successful, they had to take a step back. The last person left after everyone else’s had cracked was Spocky and when he did the final catch, he broke it, and declared “it was my ring that cracked it”. The trail continued with his sad walk of shame.

By the end there was one half egg left and believe it or not its was the blue team - it looked more like a flower pot than and egg but Wide Receiver refused to let them win the award.

Once the fines were awarded (most of the pack for sitting down, and Twin Peaks for leaving her book behind), Groucho received his 'Life President' hoodie (at last!), and the hash sung happy birthday to Total Eclipse and Stix.  Speedy made a very special lumpy drink for the down downs. 

Next week we're at Mutters Moor (Peak Hill), map

Opening circle

Wide explaining the very complicated rules

Just a nice photo!

Checking!

The blue team's smashed egg

From destruction, a new life emerges (it is Easter afer all) - Stix's decoration of the damaged egg

Sweetie stop and egg hunt

Egg catching!  What a face!!

Caught, but smashed against his ring

Lovely view!

The remains of the blue-team's egg

Groucho wearing his new life-president hoodie, celebrating with the old guys!

Four Firs - Belltoll - 14th April 2019

• R*n number 930
• Everybody was on time, apart from  Belltoll who only just made it back in time for the start of the trail.
• Ben the dog was very excited about the hash
• Belltoll was wearing latex gloves because he likes the feel of them.
• Bull Bait and Spocky were the only ones silly enough to be wearing shorts
• Very cold and windy
• We first ran along the dusty paths of Woodbury Common until we came to a back check and struggled to find the trail.
• Wide always seemed to be miles ahead.
• Bollards and Twin Peaks laid down their hand bags to go for a wee together (see photo below)
• We came to our first long short through the woods
• The hills were icy and cold
• Stix took the wimps route over the stream (he went over the bridge when he was meant to go through the stream)
• Bullbait mislead Speedy into a deep puddle, after which his shoes nearly fell apart.
• Sheriff Peaks dissed out some fines to all the ill-behaved peeps on da hash. 
• Speedy, Woof Woof and I got fined for r*nning through a cross on a bridge apparently.
• 5.4 miles long and not laid in half an hour

Next week we're at Haldon Belevdere (map) for an Easter Eggtravaganza hared by Wide Receiver. Please wear bunny ears, an they'll be an Easter Egg Hunt

Bollards and Twin Peaks going for a wee

Joney's Cross - Spockybitz - 7th April 2019

• Hash number 929 with 29 idiots in attendance
• A sunny warm morning, but not as warm as it was when we left home
• Having forgotten he was laying the trail last week, Spocky was still very relaxed about it this morning, and only arrived to lay it at 9.30. But then he realised that he'd forgotten his trainers, so had to go back home, and only had half an hour to lay!
• Woodpecker arrived 5 mins early but Coffin and Imelda were late 
• Bollards welcomed the hash but had a sore throat. Stix offered her something to suck on.
• The unfortunate return of Paperwork for the summer, but great to see Sore Point
• Rocky was splashing everybody in the puddles 
• We went off road and jumped over gorges
• The long/short split loop lost the longs, but they made it up by the time we got to the sweet stop 
• We saw a man in camouflage taking pictures of the hot birds on the hash 
• Woof Woof got stuck in a gorge, with Spocky running to the rescue of a damsel in distress, and Woodpecker did a ninja roll under barbed wire
• Stix opened his legs for Tetley to pass (the dog).  But when it was Bull Baits turn, he said “I'm not opening my legs for that!”. Stix replied "Thats what Bollards says" ... quote of the week?
• Just a 3 mile trail - but took 55 minutes
• Fines went to Bull Bait for above; Woof Woof for cartwheeling into a gorge, and then asking for Spocky’s help 

Notices

Good news for all of you Woodbury commons fans, as next week we are at the Four Firs car park, laid by Belltoll (map).

At the end of the circle, we voted for the Trail of the Month (March), which, despite Speedy's best efforts, went to last week's hash from Danes Wood laid by Child Catcher and Twin Peaks.  That trail will join the Alphington hash by Blobby, and the Uphams Plantation trail by Woodpecker and Howlin' Wilf.