The Words according to WINNIE THE POO

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First, before the usual nonsense of The Words, an important announcement:

It is with huge sadness that we share the news that SH4’s, frankly, all-round marvellous Morticia passed away yesterday morning.

Taking from some of the words that have been written by her hash family over the last 24 hours, a huge part of the SH4 from the very beginning, this much-beloved, wonderful, kind and gentle human being – a true hasher, through and through – will be terribly missed by all of us.

I think I speak for everyone when we extend all our love and kindest thoughts to Gomez, Pugsley and family at this incredibly difficult time.

Pugsley has said that details of the funeral will shared in due course.

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HASH 1500 – CHILLINGTON

Well, the weather got the memo about the hash being from Chillington: it was fluffing cold. The GM, with her best intentions, brought us quickly into the circle to do the normal hellos, safety notice and on to the hares, being Lactaster & Dirty Nights, ably assisted by Pugsley (his flour shot), Overshot (Games master & T-shirt designer) and Pinky (pack pointer).

Not more than 30 seconds in, it descended into the normal riff raff half-listening, many last-minute hellos, and the ‘On on that way’ was followed by ‘was it 3 and on?’, ‘how many long short splits?’, ‘what was the length of the trail’ – and, unique to the 1500th, I forgot my blindfold.

So, the trail ….. it was a bit like the nursery rhyme ‘The Grand old Duke of York’: when they were up they were up, and when they were down they were down, but when they were only half way up, they were neither up nor down. Well those ups and downs, they were hard: a path was what we were meant to be on, but the recent, beautiful liquid sunshine had clearly taken its toll on them. I overhead even the gazelles amongst us were unable to hop, skip and a jump up and down them, and were tamed to a trot.

But, sorry, before this I missed the some of the best bits…. The Olympic Games! Two in total, the first being shortly after we set off. Lord Overshot commanding his playing field arranged the rabble in slow time around in a circle. Some of the pack may have noticed there were flour dots nicely laid out to support this creation, but I’ll leave the next 10minutes to the imagination as to how aligning to this did or did not neatly come to fruition.

So, assuming the pack were well arranged, the Lord among us pulled out about eight unwilling hashers into the centre and commanded they wore their blindfolds. We shall not name those that had forgotten the vital item frequently discussed on the messenger chat, alongside Dimmers’ hand-cuffs…glad to say they did not materialise. I would hazard a guess that the game was loosely based on the Olympic 400meters race, crossed with handball without the ball.

So began an amusing ‘find the hasher’ game, where the small central pack shouted ‘Where are you?’ and one unaware hasher shouted the globally-recognised hasher response, ‘OnOn’ – well all that is except for SH4 FRB’s…plus, most of the rest of the pack its seems, as in normal style it took a further 5 minutes for the rules of the games to percolate down, with whimpers of ‘there’s no rules in hashing’ – the Lord was having none of this.

I can only assume the speedier, less concerned, blindfolded hashers were just very competitive and it was nothing to do with the potential opportunity to accidentally find a fellow hasher with outstretched fondl..searching hands. So, in grand style after the game had played out, the Lord announced the Gold, Silver and Bronze winners to a pack which was already half way out the gate and onto the trail.

Game 2: the hash Flour Shot, as notably well-tended-to by Pugsley and well-placed by the well-tended beer stop. Firstly, I must commend the perfect combination of Baileys and chocolates at the Beer stop: it’s the gold standard (True Olympic BS Style).

Sorry, I almost omitted the putt marker (Rubbery) ensuring all hashers had a miniature flag to poke into the ground to mark where their putt landed. So the hash Flour Putt (an easier cross-reference to the Olympic field sport): again, some simple rules – throw from behind this line; the putt must remain within the throwing area; mark where you putt lands; return the putt to the next hasher. Well, again, rules were thwarted and Pugsley resignedly said, time and time again, ‘within the boundaries’, ‘bring back the putt’, and so on.

Alas, the trail was done, and with the Olympics completed the closing ceremony commenced in the pub, with Doggy Style’s debut as RA.

The commendations were awarded to :
• Rusty and or Rizzo – for yet another outing for the dependable pocket torch
• Nice Tackle – accidental Boob Checking (wink wink)
• Wet Spot’s – suggestion he could just close his eyes (always the court jester)
• Can’t Come – out of bounds shot
• Wetspot – breaking the flour putt (little did he know the game was already out of
reach)
• Barberella – on trial stuck in a bush
• The Lord – being the only gazelle to remain leaping (well, ’tis the season)
• Cowpat’s valiant effort to support the 1500th in the pub
• Dirty Nights (likely name and nature) return from honeymoon
• Filth & Rubbery for the successful Pre-xmas in Brixham
Shotputt winners:
• Muckspreader (slight advantage as a farmer? Who knows, what else would give him such a strong arm)
• Shaggy (small but clearly mighty)
Finally, the T-shirts
• 100 Dirty Nights
• 200 Lactaster
• 200, 300, 400 & 500 Olive
Down downs were awarded to the spectacular 1500th hares and support that made the evening the Awesome Olympics for SH4.

ON-ON to ERMINGTON!

Photo credit: Rubbery
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🏃 📸 🍻 You can enjoy a choice selection of photos from the Chillington hash on 4th December 2024 by checking out Hash Flash’s purpose-built photo album on the SH4 Facebook page 📸 🏃🍻

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Next SH4 Hash 🐷👣:

HASH 1501 – ERMINGTON, 11th December, 2024

CIRCLE UP:
The Crooked Spire
The Square
Remington
PL21 9LP
What3Words: taller.rolled.pressing
ON DOWN:
As above

Pub Tel: 01548 831523

Hares: Py and Lady Godiva
RA: TBC

For further info, please see the Hash 1501 event page on theSH4 Facebook Group.

📝 If you’re the lucky Scribe at ERMINGTON on 11th December, please submit your edition of The Words to thewords@sh4.org.uk by Sunday evening (15th December), ideally – TVM! 📝

Add your photos of how the evening went down (Weds 4th December, 2024) to the Hash 1501 photo album on SH4’s Facebook page , courtesy: Rubbery.
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HASH DIARY – Upcoming Events
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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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