Today's trail was a joint r*n with Taunton, which I think suprised a few when arriving at the venue to see unknown faces and a pack that must have been at least 50-strong. Bollards and I were heading to the wrong venue, despite me adding a link to the correct venue on to the hash diary. Extremely luckily we choose a route that took us past the correct car park, and Bollards said "that looks like Sorepoint over there, what's she doing here?"!
After Spocky hash introduced the hash, we heard from the hares that it was 5 miles on the longs - which apparently is long for Taunton! The trail initially took us along the edges of the woods towards the holiday park, then a long stretch along some shiggy paths. Wide asked me how my bum was. When I queried what he meant, he said "after last week"! Funny, I thought, can't remember any "bum action", then remembered the steep drop on his trail where I'd bounced! Mad Max decided to lie down, or had he face planted the ground? He didn't get much sympathy anyway!! The long stretch had obviously got Belltoll's insides moving as he was trupeting nicely as he ran after of me!
Then we arrived at the sweetie stop. I'm not sure that everyone has arrived by time the hash flash was taken, but the sweets were a great classic selection of babies, all-sorts and pastilles!
We were now back on the road by the holiday park beyond the starting point, with the second half of the trail taking us on a loop around some of the airfield. Then back through Rhodedendrum Wood and back home.
In the circle, Sorepoint had brought along cheesy feet and Paperwork had made mulled cider. Spocky led the circle and despite Wide's bum question, and Max's fall, he got voted for the down-down himself for getting in a fight with a huge Badger that Boots fought off. Or it might have been a bramble that scratched his nose.
On on to next week where we're at Warren Car park on the Common. Please don't forget to Rate the Hash.
And finally, if you've not laid a trail during the last couple of months, please volunteer. We need everyone to lay at least 3 or 4 trails per year (and of you jointly lay, that only counts as half!!). Please help spread the load so that it's a bit more even than last year! Please contact Tight with the dates you can lay.
