Chudleigh Knighton - Wide Receiver - 25 August 2019

Hello, todays run was from Cheriton bishop (Stix: thats Chudleigh Knighton!) laid by Wide and Tight (Stix: I don't think Tight had anything to do with it - other than making the cakes!), on Wide's birthday run, again it was run 949 because I made an error updating the spreadsheet, but next week I promise it will be 950!

• Nice car park
• Very warm weather
• 6 long shorts
• Lots of virgins
• Coffin and Imelda turned up late
• Tight introduced some virgins and when they called her Ellie, she replied that “She has never been called Tight before” (Quote of the week)
• Speedy and stingray mislead the pack up a hill
• We consistently checked wrong at the beginning
• The hash all cooled off by walking through a river before reaching the sweetie stop, where wide splashed everyone, upsetting the easily offended
• Got lost at a check again
• A few more long shorts and we were back
• Speedy put a mask with Spockys face on it and got a picture with wide. Speedy still with Spockys mask on declined some cake saying that he was vegan.Twin peaks dissed out some fines, they went to Coffin and Imelda for being late, Speedy for misleading the shorts, Stix, Twin peaks and Bull Bait got fined for missing the path, twin peaks and child catcher got fined for going for a wee in the hedges.
• Stix: And it definitely wasn't a picnic - but Mad Max came with his chair and parasoll!

Announcement; So peeps next week the Stix family isn’t at da hash so it would be v nice please if someone else could volunteer to write the blog and take a photo, (this is so that I can see who was there and who needs to pay subs).

WWB - Speedy (STix: WWB = Words Written By)

Next week its the inflatable hash, at the Culm Valley Sports Centre (map). Don't forget your blow up doll (or sheep).

East Hill Strips - Howlin' Wilf and Riverdance - 18th August 2019

This week we hashed somewhere near Ottery, which for those of you who are less capable at geography, is in Devon, England, to our delight the trail was laid by Howling Wilf and Riverdance.

• We watched a plane come over the car park
• Only the elite few turned up, as well as the hashers
• A man in a western power landrover drove top speed up the car park, and then to show off maxed it out in reverse.
• An elderly man's arrived and did a big smelly poo in the middle of the track. Twin peak's told him to clear it up - which he did by flicking into the ditch.
• Woodpecker turned up late
• We were told in the circle, that it was one-and-on on the longs but was 3-and-on on the shorts. Very confusing for hashers
• We were alarmed to find that there was some shooting in a nearby field, I did not know what they were shooting at
• Quote of the week "I haven't got my leg over on a SUnday morning for a long time" (Twin Peaks).
• There was a sweet stop where Speedy, Stix and Rocky arrived first. Rocky was trying to open his bag even though Stix told him not to, rocky ripped his bag open and jelly drops spilt all over the forest floor. Out of shock Stix ripped his bag too. Speedy quickly cleared up before the dogs saw what had been going on.
• There was a long short split where the longs had a longer trail than the shorts.
• We pelted back at top speed before reaching the OH and helping ourselves to Twin Peaks' cake. 

Fines went to Child Catcher and me for weeing on the hash (not together), Rocky for dropping the sweets, and probably a few more.

WARNING; todays trail was in a wet forest so please check for ticks, here is some information on limes disease https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-basics/lyme-disease/about-lyme 

This week’s run number was 949 ish which means that next week will be 950ish (providing we count in integers).

Words by Speedy ☹


Next week it Wide's Birthday Hash, from Chudleigh Knighton - the car park next to the play park on the B3344 heading out of the village, just ast the Claycutters ARms (map,TQ13 0FE)

Woodbury Common - Woodpecker - 11th August 2019

A good turnout today - especially considering Isca's Roman Away Day in Teignmouth. Obviously the temptation of Mrs Woodpecker's food and drink afterwards was too good to miss. It was also going to be a day of dodging the showers, and we nearly managed this - it just began to rain as we left Exton.

Bollards kicked the hash off - nearly 10 mins late - but there were no late comers for a change! We gathered round some puddles and some dog poo (which Bull Bait was hoping some would step in, but which Boots kindly scooped up). As with most of Woodpecker's trails, he managed to get the whole pack going the wrong way at the start!

There was an early long-short split as we headed towards the Model Air field car park, then another long-short near the woods to the north, where the longs struggled a bit to find the trail that looped them back up a very steep slope to the shorts. Through the woods, where we lost the trail again in the ferns and bracken, across the road and to the regroup. Most of the shorts had been there a while - Boots had had the time to build Mischief a little den! But some of the "No Names" were missing, as were English Muffin and co. Woodpecker backtracked to find them as the rest of the pack continued. There was still a long-short for us to enjoy, and before we arrived back, Speedy, Howlin' Wilf, Bollards, Child Catcher and others started racing each other - sadly they were on the wrong track! But soon after that, we arrived back at the car park.

We headed on pretty much straight away down to Exton, where Woodpecker had laid on beer and food. The infamous fertility pool was open for new customers. After many had been in for a dip, the No Names were named Yankee, Doodle and Dandy by Woodpecker, and fines went the racists (racing) and Speedy for splashing Woodpecker

Thanks again to Mr and Mrs Woodpecker for their hospitality!

Next week we're at Core Copse, East Hill Strips, near Ottery St Mary SY126947 - see map here

 

Exminster - Stix and family - 4th August 2019

This week we ran from Days Pottles Lane, starting from a bridge over the A38 near Exminster, hared by the whole Stix family.

• Run number 946
• The best 16 hashers attended
• Stix pose the question "How many bridges will we cross?"
• We came across a flattened mole
• Those on the shorts saw some llamas, and then went up a the very steep Coffinswell Lane
• The longs enjoyed a long-long, with fish hooks!
• Bridge number 1 across the M5
• On the short, Stix managed to send X-bitz, Itzy-bitz, Son of the Bitz, and Woodpecker the wrong way
• After a while we reached the sweetie stop where the shorts arrived before the longs, except for Tampa who overshot and went on the longs until he found the ha-ha - then came back to the sweeties stop once we were a;ready tucking in.
• From the sweet stop we could see the cars on the bridge where we started
• Another long-short split after we ran down the side of the A30
• When the shorts reached the end of a path, they came across some blackberries which we
• ate, everyone agreed they were lovely.  And a dead bird.
• The longs had a nice scenic run along the A379 dual carriageway
• With everone back together, we ran across bridge number 2, across the A30.
• The we came to a field of corn that was full of stingers, and we ran between the rows.
• We ran up a steep hill and the front runners met a fishhook and where sent all the way down the hill to Speedy who was at the bottom of the hill
• We came across a flattened rabbit.
• A short run back to the bridge (which we crossed - bridge number 3!!)
• Fines went to Stix for sending X-bitz and Woodpecker the wrong way, and Spocky for fiddling with his bitz through the hole in his shorts. 
• We voted on trail of the month for July had joint winners - Iford (spocky) and Bradninch (Child Catcher and Twin Peaks)

Words (mostly) written by Rocky and proofread by Speedy

Next week we are hashing from Woodbury Common - Four Firs, with food and beer back at Woodpecker's afterwards. Please bring some nice puddings. 

On On!