THE “MULTI-MEDIA” HASH
Run Number: 445
Date: Monday 1 Sep 08
Time: 65 minutes
Distance: 5.8 miles
Run Location: Shaftesbury
The Pub: The Fountain Inn
Pub Links: To follow
Weather: Overcast, warm with a threat of rain
Hares, Hounds and Hash Stats
THE WORDS
On arrival at the Fountain Inn we were greeted by Warthog – our short notice hare. This was because Two Shoes had to decline our offer of being hare as his young son was ill (we hope he is feeling much better now). Warthog was looking pretty dapper for a chap who had run “The Beast” the day before and who had just finished a day beating for pheasants. After we did some nifty parking he gave us a complicated but thorough briefing: live hare, every junction a check, circles for whip ins, numbers in flour mean we have to wait for that many hounds to arrive before checking, smiley faces back to the last check and crosses back to the last dab (Phew!). BrEW consulted a crumpled piece of paper, which was apparently a note from the absent Ronlet (sounds like a bluff to me) and nominated me for the words (thanks). “Hash Flash” then took a quick photo, we chatted while we gave the hare exactly 5 minutes start and we were off, trying to recall our extensive instructions.
We ran off accompanied by enthusiastic heavy breathing from Trip, who was still on the lead. We were quickly confronted with a very long flight of steps and Strider found the first smilie at the top. We then had to find our way through a mass of minor road junctions including Breach Common, Breach Lane and the “Butts”, passed under the A30, ended up going up the rubbish filled Dark Lane and up to the Ivy Cross roundabout. The pack then had to search through an extensive housing estate for the trail. Silent Running had a couple of goes in the lead including finding the trail along a long narrow footpath behind a row of gardens, near Cranbourne Drive. We were now getting used to the flour numbers on the sawdust whip in circles and were waiting for the right number of hounds before we started checking. On the run we decided we rather liked this multi-media approach for the variety. At this stage Strider was doing really well in the lead. So well that we left him, not “On! On! ing” loudly enough, and the poor chap had to do 2 checks on his own with no clues to catch up. He got bugger all sympathy! By this stage we were out in the country and Trip was really enjoying rounding up sheep in the fields with just a glance, until he ran into the live electric fence and got tangled in it. ‘Lucky Pierre’ was on hand to sort it out.
We then went into the Crook Hayes Estate which had the pack confused and split, with some following Emptier and some following Silent Running, so that we nearly left Quelque Chose and Trip behind. Here a few crosses confused us even more. By now Kinky Bugger and Jibber, who were on their local patch, were discussing whose houses we were passing and noticed Shaun “Leaky” Green (?) watching us from his window. We then passed Mampitts farm where Jibber was so far ahead he had time to alter the whip in circle into a smilie face to further confuse the pack. We then found our way through an industrial estate where Eddy Clements (?) house was pointed out to us. The hare later told us that here Strider was very close to him, near a set of traffic lights, but none of the pack noticed our hare sloping off. Next Madness entertained us by getting into a massive tangle on top of a metal fence we had to cross (one of those ones where your ankle gets caught high up between two bars just as you try to jump down). Everyone else just squeezed through the nearby foot wide gap in the fence – once they stopped laughing!
After a massive sprint across Barton Hill playing fields, which left him exhausted for the rest of the trail, Jibber caught the hare, although Warthog claimed sanctuary as he had just glibly finished laying a last moment whip-in. So Jibbers “live hare catch” was ruled out on a technicality, or so he claimed, as we wondered why we couldn’t see the hare. The trail led us down Victoria Street once we had recovered from overshooting it. Into the town we enjoyed running down Shooters Hill, apart from the thought of the inevitable compensating run uphill. Said uphill turned out to a merciless flog up Gold Hill although there was widespread relief that there was no smilie face at the top.
We then veered West. Kinky Bugger managed to catch up with the hare on Castle Hill and was well pleased with doing so. We wondered why he had suddenly run off at a tangent to the rest of us. Soon afterwards we found the “BH3” at the top of a very long flight of steps, which Strider knew well already, and descended to the pub with BrEW and Walt acting as rear guard. Back in the car park we gave Warthog a good round of applause for stepping in at such short notice and for laying a really interesting trail in multi-media.
It just started to drizzle as we got changed. In the nice dry warm pub we enjoyed pints of Green King IPA. ’On Pres presented Quelque Chose with his very well deserved tankard for 25 hashes. Those gathered could also see ’On Pres could feel a blue T-shirt sales opportunity coming on! I would like to thank all those who shouted out ideas to note in the words so I would sound like I knew where we had been. What a shame you all shouted at once, which is my excuse if any of the place names are wrong. It was steak night in the Fountain Inn so most of us took that option, especially as the £8.50 cost included another pint. Excellent value! Then the last survivors finished off a good evening with a few games of Pool for good measure.
HARES, HOUNDS AND HASH STATS
Hare(s): Warthog
Hounds: BrEW, Emptier, Jibber, Kinky Bugger, Madness, Quelque Chose, Silent Running, Strider, Walt
Social Hounds/Puppy Hashers: Not this time
Real Hounds: Trip
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MUG & T-SHIRT RATINGS
(??*) - Denotes attendance by those not Mug Rated (social hounds).
RED T-SHIRT AWARD (100 AND OVER)… And we’ve got them – for £10!
Andy (Warthog) Goodman (234); Bronwen (Ronlet) Jones (205); Brian (BrEW) Errington-Weddle (167 + 4*); Terry (Walt) Disney (148); Ed (Birdseye) Sadd (148); Tim (Silent Running) Bryning (143 + 1*); Mark (Jibber) Humphries (141); Jason (Kinky Bugger) Wareham (116); Martin (Madness) Lawson (103 + 6*)
GOLD T-SHIRT AWARD (50 AND OVER)
Duncan (Day Glo) Ray (72+ 2*); Tim (Classic) King (69)
MUG AWARD AND CAN WEAR BLUE T-SHIRT (25 - 49)
John (Strider) Bryning (41); Tom (Two Shoes) Gillard (38); Helen (Elle) Goodman (30*); Gail (Tour Guide) Sadd (9 + 21*); Rowland (Pet Rescue) Stibbards (27); Mark (Shady) Vincent (27); Pierre (Quelque Chose) Leroy (26); Graham (Hidden Depths) Plaice (26)
NEED MORE HASHES OR POSTING ORDER (10 - 24)
Peter (Emptier) Fuller (22); Lesley (Tinkerbell) Bryning (17*); Ben (The Slobby Uno ♂) Sadd (14); Alan (Orson) Kerridge (12+1*); Patrick (Sloe) Ginn (12); Edward (The Wanderer) Vincent (12); Sarah (...) Bryning (1 + 10*); Paul (Crazy Fool) Kadoch (11); Emma (…) Sadd (8 + 2*)
NEED MORE HASHES (5 - 9)
Wendy (…) Stibbards (9*); Craig (Drama Queen) White (9); Jenny (…) Fuller (3 + 4*); James (i-Plod) Vincent (7); Manuela (…) Leroy (7*); Pierre (…) Leroy Jnr (6); Clare (The Slobby Uno ♀) Sadd (4 + 2*); Andy (Muddy) Cheney (5); Ian (House Hunter) Seraph (5)
KEEP HASHING (1 - 4)
Nikki (Xtra Miles) Brooks (4); Hilary Naylor (4); Steve Thornton (4); Rebecca Leroy (3*); Mike (…) Lock (3); Fiona (…) Ray (1+2*); Paul Allen (2); Sarah King (2); David Orriss (2); Elsie May Ray (2*); Alf Sadd (2*); Janice Vincent (2*); Chantelle Wareham (2); Jane Allen (1); Sandie Disney (1*); Laurence Fowkes (1); Renee Ginn (1*); Ben King (1+1*); Alice King (1*); George King (1*); Colin McGrory (1); Emma Rae (1); Frank Riley (1); Jon (Circus Boy) Smallwood (1); Fiona Vincent (1*)
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Price: Warthog # 445 |
