On Down is back at the Station House Hotel
The Words according to DOGGY STYLE
🌟 Less than a week to go until the SH4 Pre-Xmas Hash Weekend and 1500th Hash – Sat 30 Nov-Sun 1st Dec, Grenville House, Brixham! 🌟
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HASH 1496 – SHIPLEY BRIDGE
Oh, what a night! (Ed…”Late [Nov]ember, back in, er, twenty-four…” No, you’re right: it doesn’t work 😬)
Circling up at 7.28pm, three minutes late – but it was 0 degrees (!!), that was my GM excuse and I’m sticking to it!
This was my first Circle Up as the new GM: it had already been agreed, due to the weather, to crack on – and crack on I did.
I can’t believe we had no visitors or virgins… Lightweights! The quick, fun fact (Ed. or are these Fun Facts™, under the new DS regime…? 😘) was about beavers: ‘What sort of beavers?’ I hear you ask. Well, the MOON Beaver: it peaked last Friday, with a marvellous moon. From that little chestnut, I asked Tight Nuts why the ladies[‘] downstairs (Ed. presumed apostrophe, unless Tight Nuts has a cellar and has some acquired some female lodgers with an annoying penchant for creating stick-base water-impounding structures?) are known as ‘beavers’. He just grinned, so I thought, ‘I will ask the Hashers’. I have to say, the Hashers were quite reserved in their replies. I Googled (Ed. a daring course of action…), and found many answers – here are some: looks like a beaver; in the 15C, lice were rife and so ladies had to shave and used beaver hair (like a sporran) to cover up; beavers would mate during the full moon in November. There were other replies, but best to keep them verbal rather than written (Ed. yes, probably best 😳) – I don’t want to be struck off just yet! 😆
The hares, Bad Cock and Willy Waver, very quickly delivered the lengths (not sure I should call it ‘lengths’ with names like theirs [Ed. or precede ‘the lengths’ with the verb ‘delivered’ …😆]), and off the Hashers and Harriets went. Barbarella fell over, going uphill (Ed. we’ve all been there…OK, some of us have been there), not long after leaving the start; that doesn’t look good from the off!
Blown Off took the lead from the start and came in first. As he is a new committee member, he thought he was best to lead by example (Ed. laudable 😘); “it’s not a RACE!!” I hear you all shout… Dimwit may have come in first if BO hadn’t send him back to do the kick-outs: well done, Dimmers, for taking one for the team.
It was reported that WGAS turned right but did not call ‘On’, and everyone else went the wrong way (Ed. shocking conduct…but then it may just be that he ‘WGAS’ actually doesn’t when it’s 0 ℃…). Know Nuts left the pub early: was it because he upset a lot of the Harriets by saying they were a bunch of old women? Well, Know Nuts, that would put you in the same camp, ‘cos you walk/run with them every week!
Jyde is believed to be well-endowed, due to much bulging from his pockets: he looked rather pleased when the RA reported that last night. I’m glad to say we will never know…
Piltdown Man thought the Short was perfect: hard to start, getting easier as you went on. Nice Tackle had a mishap with a stile and a gate: he opted for the gate and the gate lost (Ed. [and maybe we too, something in the translation…😆] I would’ve thought the gate would present the lesser challenge of the two, but something about it must’ve offended NT!) mind you so may his tackle have lost itself! (Ed. good grief – routine gate operation does not, by my understanding, usually imperil ‘tackle’! 👀)
Wetspot was the only moaner (Ed. so out of character…): he was moaning that we left three minutes late from the Circle Up: don’t worry – I will improve that next week.
GHR was heard in the car, coming to the hash, saying that he wasn’t up for it. He was sat in the back with She’s Ready – the relief on She’s Ready’s face further evidence that GHR wasn’t up for it. Saying that, any chance GHR could hold on to Can’t Come (Ed. fairly sure that’s not the person you have in mind, DS 😆…Come Tonight?) was noted; he said he was only making sure she didn’t fall down and re-break her arm. Yeah, yeah! We thought you two were very romantic, walking along – and you were on the flat then!
Overshot was dobbed in for not shouting ‘On On’ (Ed. so out of character…); the jury is still out on that one, as he was sure he did.
For some reason, Gary Glitter had been to Plymouth drinking, managed to get back, and was put into the highchair. Well done, GG; I’m not sure I could get my leg in there (Ed. but, and perhaps more crucially, did she get out again…?)
Happy Birthday to Vindaloo – plus, and this went under the radar but, someone spilled the beans and informed me that Py also had a birthday; something about a pension and bus pass was commented on.
Based entirely on the ‘select’ photographic evidence from the evening, summations from above talk of birthdays, and general hashing-based assumptions, it is hazarded that Down Downs went to:
Bad Cock & Willy Waver – (hypothermic?) hares;
Blown Off – ‘winning the hash’;
Nice Tackle – retaining (we hope!) all of his, after the altercation with a gate;
Gary Glitter – highchair-based contortions;
Pinky – New Hare Razer/welcome return/ nominated by birthday girl, Vindaloo?
Thank you, She’s Ready, for RA-ing, and to Willy Waver and Bad Cock for the hash.
ON-ON to Modbury.
Photo credit: Rubbery
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🏃 📸 🍻 You can enjoy a choice selection of photos from the Shipley Bridge hash on 20th November 2024 by checking out Hash Flash’s purpose-built photo album on the SH4 Facebook page 📸 🏃🍻
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Next SH4 Hash 🐷👣:
HASH 1497 – MODBURY, 27th November 2024
CIRCLE UP:
Poundwell Meadow carpark,
Modbury
(Bottom carpark)
What3Words: self.croaking.aware
ON DOWN:
White Hart Hotel
2 Church Street,
Modbury
PL21 0QW
What3Words: daylight.lighters.amicably
Pub Tel: 01548 830652
Hares: Undercovers
RA: TBC
The kitchen at The White Hart would like us to pre-order: please see menu, below.
Please get back to Undercovers by Monday with your choices (comment on the post on the SH4 Facebook page ‘Discussion’ [or nominate someone to do for you!]).
For further info, please see the Hash 1497 event page on theSH4 Facebook Group.
📝 If you’re the lucky Scribe at MODBURY on 27th November, please submit your edition of The Words to thewords@sh4.org.uk by Saturday evening (30th November), ideally – TVM! 📝
Add your photos of how the evening went down (Weds 27th November, 2024) to the Hash 1497 photo album on SH4’s Facebook page , courtesy: Rubbery.
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👣 – PARISH NOTICES – 👣
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👣 – SH4 Fundraising – National Amyloidosis Centre – 👣
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In case you missed it last week (and also because it’s such a cracking picture, and celebrates something that certainly deserves a second mention), Hekkel and Jyde presented a cheque – representing monies raised by various SH4 fundraising efforts throughout the year and rounded up by the hash committee to a cool £1000 – to the National Amyloidosis Centre (NAC) at the Royal Free Hospital in London on 13 November. The cheque was received by Professor Julian Gilmore, Head of UCL Centre for Amyloidosis and Research Lead at the NAC.
A fantastic fundraising achievement, by everyone at SH4, and one that we are sure will be put to great use by the Centre to further its research into the condition!
(Look out for mentions in the local press, too 😊)
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HASH DIARY – Upcoming Events
🌟 🎄⛄PRE-CHRISTMAS HASH WEEKEND ⛄🎄 🌟
AND
1500th Hash
30th Nov – 1st Dec 2024 – THIS WEEKEND!!!
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POST-CHRISTMAS Hash Bash Weekend – 14th-16th February 2025
If you have booked your spot for this snazzy SH4 getaway but haven’t yet paid your deposit, please send your £50 asap to the SH4 bank account, quoting your hash name and ping a quick message to Hash Cash to confirm:
Payment to SH4 Bank Account:
Acc. no.: 00263482 Sort code: 30-94-72
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SH4 ‘EALTH & SAFETY
Please make a note of the new SH4 hash phone number and add it to your phone:
🌟 SH4 hash phone number: 07922 103701 🌟
Use this number to call for assistance if you come ‘unstuck’ out on the trail, or need to get a message to ‘base camp’ (On Down) during the run .
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🌟 Don’t forget to see Rusty Bottom or Ching Chong before the hash to log you out on trail using the new-fangled checking-out/checking-in app (developed by our very own digital-wizard, Whisperer).
Don’t forget to also check back in with the ‘On Secs you’re safely back. 🌟
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SH4 MercHASHdise
Show your love for SH4 and wear your membership proudly with a bespoke SH4 car sticker!
Available exclusively to SH4 members (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! 😊
See a member of the committee at the next meet for yours.
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