BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:502@sh4.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240501T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240501T230000 DTSTAMP:20240504T091823Z URL:https://www.sh4.org.uk/events/hash-1465/ SUMMARY:South Hams H4 Hash 1465 - Crooked Spire DESCRIPTION:The Words according to HEKKYL\nHash 1465 - ERMINGTON\n\nOn a ra re and sublimely dry Spring evening (did I just say that? It sounded weird ..) the stalwart members of the SH4 Knitting Circle assembled for the seco nd time in a month outside The Crooked Spire in Ermington\, ready for an h our of vigorous chatting.\n\nBy coincidence another Lycra-and-fluoro-clad group and their similarly-attired dogs had assembled in the same place and at the same time. This caused some consternation amongst the Knitters\; d id they all want to join us? How would we all fit into one car? Were they aware of The Rules? Had they brought their own Prosecco? Did they know tha t Twisted Sister won’t eat cheese &\; onion crisps?\n\nWe needn’t h ave worried\; after the pain of the GM’s joke (I think we’ve got it do wn to a dull groan after the initial agony when she cracked her first one. .) introductions were made to a virgin\, who turned out not to be a virgin having come before\, but had forgotten what it was like. “She’ll soon remember” smirked Dimmers\, “and that’s the last we’ll see of her ” he prophesised\, wisely. Littlest Virgin Of The Year\, Evie of Ermingt on\, made a brief appearance on Twisted Sister’s shoulders. Having seen enough\, she declared herself the winner and went home\; now that’s a st rategy I wish I’d thought of sooner…\n\nIntros done\, it was on to the usual notices (Fallen Woman’s memorial hash\, 1st June\, Brixham\, wear bright clothes - see poster\, below\, or Filth for info). Then came the l ies from the hare – and what a stonker of a lie THAT turned out to be… A few other general delaying tactics and whatnot\, then we were off and o n down\, or up\, the road… unless you were a Short\, in which case pleas e wait in the car... WAIT IN THE CAR? Whoop-de-doo\, this is my kind of ha shing! So I went and waited in the car\, only it was the wrong car and off they went\, up the hill at\, according to Spotty Botty’s watch 100mph. I dare say it felt like it\, knowing what I know about Doggy Style’s dri ving\; she’s A Woman Not To Be Messed With\, especially when she’s in the car\, but also out of it…\n\nOvershot reported to me that the trail took them up the renowned and much-dreaded stinging nettle track. I know t he one\, having done it in shorts just the once - and that was enough. Ove rshot was very happy to be wearing tights\; whether Sniffer is\, is anothe r matter\, but he didn’t seem to care. Blown Off blew off on account of not wearing tights going up the same track\; I expect he has some spectacu lar welts this morning... [Ed. the Words were submitted\, very promptly an d conscientiously\, on Thursday morning - TVM\, Hekkyl. Apologies from the Ed. for ponderous publication]\n\nSpeaking of inappropriate attire\, Boat y admired GHR’s dress which he had ironed specially for this occasion. G HR insisted it was a manly t-shirt in the gruffest voice he could stump up \, but no-one was convinced.\n\nBack in the pub\, the lone barman skilfull y pulled pints and juggled pasties as a queue gradually formed. I secured a pint for Jyde\, and left him half my pasty so the he had something to gn aw on while he waited for his own. 9pm came\, the queue had dispersed\, an d still no Jyde. Zoe the dog decided to help relieve me of Jyde’s half o f the pasty despite being on a diet. 9.30pm came\, Pugsley arrived and sta rted a new queue. The barman resumed pint-pulling and pasty-juggling\, but still no Jyde. Then I remembered\, he was probably at home showering on a ccount of the hash being on his home turf. So I gave the rest of the pasty to Zoe\, I think she deserved it more… 9.40 and Gomez arrived\, outrage d at the length of the short\, it being longer than the long apparently. M aybe I hadn’t got into the wrong car at the start after all\, and maybe Jyde was still out there and not in the shower… As the queue reformed fo r a third time\, Jyde eventually made an appearance\, looking very fresh a nd fragrant. So he was in the shower after all. He still managed to compla in that the short was too long\; well now that he’s a fully-fledged gran dad\, I expect he thinks it’s his right to.\n\nGHR delivered the evening ’s eulogy. He muttered something about somebody panting in his ear in th e back of the car but I couldn’t tell if he enjoyed it or not. Yeuk comp lained about his aftershave but I’m not sure if she was also the mystery panter… After that\, the evening went downhill as GHR’s jokes became increasingly 'Plympton'\, as Ging\nGang put it. And we all know what that means\; mentions of Viagra were many\, and Ging Gang felt it necessary to further inform the group that the effects of the drug were to be noted in a different body part to the ones mentioned by GHR. That was a deflationar y moment\, I can tell you…\n\nThere was something about Wet Spot keeping up with Triple Top\, thanks apparently to Viagra\, but I had tuned out by that time so I’ve no idea what that was about. Olive gave it beans – or ate beans\; one of the two. She fair blew – or was it flew\, I can’ t read my own writing here – around the trail and beat a good many hashe rs back to the pub. For once…\n\nCongratulations but no Down Down went t o Barbarella for completing the Plymouth Half on Sunday. The Down Down was withheld because a) it was only a half and not a full marathon\, and b) b ecause she got the bus. Now I would have thought that was exactly what mer its a Down Down\, but I’m not in charge and I don’t make the rules...\ nThe hare got a Down Down though\; despite looking remarkably fresh after laying that trail\; maybe she got the bus too. She was in shorts\, but no welts to be seen so clearly managed to avoid the stinging nettle track som ehow.\n\nOther Down Downs went to:\n• Birthday Boy and 1200 runs award-w inner Goolie (“1200 runs and all I get is a lousy t-shirt”)\n• Much younger Birthday Boy\, Rubbery\n• Grandad and shower-fresh Jyde\n• Wet Spot for keeping it up. Or maybe I wrote that down wrong…\n• Olive fo r her beans\n\nON ON to The Journey’s End\, RINGMORE\n__________________ \n\n🏃 📸 🍻 You can enjoy highlights from the daylight Ermington ha sh 1465 on 1st May 2024\, and afterwards at The Crooked Spire\, by checkin g out Hash Flash's purpose-built photo album on the SH4 Facebook Group 📸 🏃🍻\n\n_________________\n\nNext SH4 Hash 🐷👣:\n\nHASH 1466 RINGMORE - 8 May\, 2024\n\nCIRCLE UP:\nThe Journey's End\nRingmore\, TQ7 4HL\nWhat3Words: repeated.curls.elbow\n\nON DOWN:\nThe Journey's End\n(as above)\n\nHares: Goolie &\; Lo'-T-Arse\nRA: TBC\n\nFor full details\, p lease see the Hash 1466 event page on the SH4 Facebook Group\, when availa ble.\n\nAdd your photos of the evening's shenanigans at RINGMORE (Weds 8 M ay\, 2024) to the Hash 1466 photo album\, linked to the 1466 event page (o n Facebook)\, when created.\n\n📝 If you're the lucky Scribe at RINGMORE next week\, please submit your edition of The Words to thewords@sh4.org.u k - by Sunday evening (12 May)\, ideally - thank-you-please! 📝\n_______ __________\n\n \;\n\n👣\n_________________\n\n \;\n\n👣\n_____ ____________\n\nRAMBO SALCOMBE MARATHON 2024\nSaturday 21st September\, 20 24\n\n👣\n\n🌟 🌟 🌟 Register here: https://bit.ly/RamboSM2024 🌟 🌟 🌟\nOR scan the QR code\, below:\n\n👣\n___________________\ nSH4 MercHASHdise (Sorry - I still can't think of anything more inventive. ..)\n\nShow your love for SH4 and wear your membership proudly with a besp oke SH4 car sticker!\n\nAvailable exclusively to SH4 members (and\, to be fair\, anyone else who wants one...) for the bargain sum of £0.50 ea.\, y ou can afford one for every vehicle in your fleet! 😊\n\nSee Rizzo at th e next meet for yours 👣 - The Words according to HEKKYL\nHash 1465 - ER MINGTON\n\nOn a rare and sublimely dry Spring evening (did I just say that ? It sounded weird..) the stalwart members of the SH4 Knitting Circle asse mbled for the second time in a month outside The Crooked Spire in Ermingto n\, ready for an hour of vigorous chatting.\n\nBy coincidence another Lycr a-and-fluoro-clad group and their similarly-attired dogs had assembled in the same place and at the same time. This caused some consternation amongs t the Knitters\; did they all want to join us? How would we all fit into o ne car? Were they aware of The Rules? Had they brought their own Prosecco? Did they know that Twisted Sister won’t eat cheese &\; onion crisps? \n\nWe needn’t have worried\; after the pain of the GM’s joke (I think we’ve got it down to a dull groan after the initial agony when she crac ked her first one..) introductions were made to a virgin\, who turned out not to be a virgin having come before\, but had forgotten what it was like . “She’ll soon remember” smirked Dimmers\, “and that’s the last we’ll see of her” he prophesised\, wisely. Littlest Virgin Of The Year \, Evie of Ermington\, made a brief appearance on Twisted Sister’s shoul ders. Having seen enough\, she declared herself the winner and went home\; now that’s a strategy I wish I’d thought of sooner…\n\nIntros done\ , it was on to the usual notices (Fallen Woman’s memorial hash\, 1st Jun e\, Brixham\, wear bright clothes - see poster\, below\, or Filth for info ). Then came the lies from the hare – and what a stonker of a lie THAT t urned out to be… A few other general delaying tactics and whatnot\, then we were off and on down\, or up\, the road… unless you were a Short\, i n which case please wait in the car... WAIT IN THE CAR? Whoop-de-doo\, thi s is my kind of hashing! So I went and waited in the car\, only it was the wrong car and off they went\, up the hill at\, according to Spotty Botty ’s watch 100mph. I dare say it felt like it\, knowing what I know about Doggy Style’s driving\; she’s A Woman Not To Be Messed With\, especial ly when she’s in the car\, but also out of it…\n\nOvershot reported to me that the trail took them up the renowned and much-dreaded stinging net tle track. I know the one\, having done it in shorts just the once - and t hat was enough. Overshot was very happy to be wearing tights\; whether Sni ffer is\, is another matter\, but he didn’t seem to care. Blown Off blew off on account of not wearing tights going up the same track\; I expect h e has some spectacular welts this morning... [Ed. the Words were submitted \, very promptly and conscientiously\, on Thursday morning - TVM\, Hekkyl. Apologies from the Ed. for ponderous publication]\n\nSpeaking of inapprop riate attire\, Boaty admired GHR’s dress which he had ironed specially f or this occasion. GHR insisted it was a manly t-shirt in the gruffest voic e he could stump up\, but no-one was convinced.\n\nBack in the pub\, the l one barman skilfully pulled pints and juggled pasties as a queue gradually formed. I secured a pint for Jyde\, and left him half my pasty so the he had something to gnaw on while he waited for his own. 9pm came\, the queue had dispersed\, and still no Jyde. Zoe the dog decided to help relieve me of Jyde’s half of the pasty despite being on a diet. 9.30pm came\, Pugs ley arrived and started a new queue. The barman resumed pint-pulling and p asty-juggling\, but still no Jyde. Then I remembered\, he was probably at home showering on account of the hash being on his home turf. So I gave th e rest of the pasty to Zoe\, I think she deserved it more… 9.40 and Gome z arrived\, outraged at the length of the short\, it being longer than the long apparently. Maybe I hadn’t got into the wrong car at the start aft er all\, and maybe Jyde was still out there and not in the shower… As th e queue reformed for a third time\, Jyde eventually made an appearance\, l ooking very fresh and fragrant. So he was in the shower after all. He stil l managed to complain that the short was too long\; well now that he’s a fully-fledged grandad\, I expect he thinks it’s his right to.\n\nGHR de livered the evening’s eulogy. He muttered something about somebody panti ng in his ear in the back of the car but I couldn’t tell if he enjoyed i t or not. Yeuk complained about his aftershave but I’m not sure if she w as also the mystery panter… After that\, the evening went downhill as GH R’s jokes became increasingly 'Plympton'\, as Ging\nGang put it. And we all know what that means\; mentions of Viagra were many\, and Ging Gang fe lt it necessary to further inform the group that the effects of the drug w ere to be noted in a different body part to the ones mentioned by GHR. Tha t was a deflationary moment\, I can tell you…\n\nThere was something abo ut Wet Spot keeping up with Triple Top\, thanks apparently to Viagra\, but I had tuned out by that time so I’ve no idea what that was about. Olive gave it beans – or ate beans\; one of the two. She fair blew – or was it flew\, I can’t read my own writing here – around the trail and bea t a good many hashers back to the pub. For once…\n\nCongratulations but no Down Down went to Barbarella for completing the Plymouth Half on Sunday . The Down Down was withheld because a) it was only a half and not a full marathon\, and b) because she got the bus. Now I would have thought that w as exactly what merits a Down Down\, but I’m not in charge and I don’t make the rules...\nThe hare got a Down Down though\; despite looking rema rkably fresh after laying that trail\; maybe she got the bus too. She was in shorts\, but no welts to be seen so clearly managed to avoid the stingi ng nettle track somehow.\n\nOther Down Downs went to:\n• Birthday Boy an d 1200 runs award-winner Goolie (“1200 runs and all I get is a lousy t-s hirt”)\n• Much younger Birthday Boy\, Rubbery\n• Grandad and shower- fresh Jyde\n• Wet Spot for keeping it up. Or maybe I wrote that down wro ng…\n• Olive for her beans\n\nON ON to The Journey’s End\, RINGMORE\ n__________________\n\n🏃 📸 🍻 You can enjoy highlights from the da ylight Ermington hash 1465 on 1st May 2024\, and afterwards at The Crooked Spire\, by checking out Hash Flash's purpose-built photo album on the SH4 Facebook Group 📸 🏃🍻\n\n_________________\n\nNext SH4 Hash 🐷 👣:\n\nHASH 1466 RINGMORE - 8 May\, 2024\n\nCIRCLE UP:\nThe Journey's En d\nRingmore\, TQ7 4HL\nWhat3Words: repeated.curls.elbow\n\nON DOWN:\nThe J ourney's End\n(as above)\n\nHares: Goolie &\; Lo'-T-Arse\nRA: TBC\n\nFo r full details\, please see the Hash 1466 event page on the SH4 Facebook G roup\, when available.\n\nAdd your photos of the evening's shenanigans at RINGMORE (Weds 8 May\, 2024) to the Hash 1466 photo album\, linked to the 1466 event page (on Facebook)\, when created.\n\n📝 If you're the lucky Scribe at RINGMORE next week\, please submit your edition of The Words to thewords@sh4.org.uk - by Sunday evening (12 May)\, ideally - thank-you-ple ase! 📝\n_________________\n\n \;\n\n👣\n_________________\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n👣\n_________________\n\nRAMBO SALCOMBE MARATHON 2024\nSaturday 2 1st September\, 2024\n\n👣\n\n🌟 🌟 🌟 Register here: https://bit. ly/RamboSM2024 🌟 🌟 🌟\nOR scan the QR code\, below:\n\n👣\n_____ ______________\nSH4 MercHASHdise (Sorry - I still can't think of anything more inventive...)\n\nShow your love for SH4 and wear your membership prou dly with a bespoke SH4 car sticker!\n\nAvailable exclusively to SH4 member s (and\, to be fair\, anyone else who wants one...) for the bargain sum of £0.50 ea.\, you can afford one for every vehicle in your fleet! 😊\n\n See Rizzo at the next meet for yours 👣 CATEGORIES:Hash Trails LOCATION:Crooked Spire The Crooked Spire Inn\, Ermington\, Devon\, PL21 9LP GEO:50.361819;-3.917028 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Crooked Spire Inn\, Erm ington\, Devon\, PL21 9LP\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Croo ked Spire:geo:50.361819,-3.917028 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240331T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR