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:538@sh4.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241204T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241204T230000 DTSTAMP:20241211T190826Z URL:https://www.sh4.org.uk/events/hash-1500-olympics-hash/ SUMMARY:South Hams H4 Hash 1500 - Olympics Hash - Bear & Blacksmith DESCRIPTION:The Words according to WINNIE THE POO\n🌟 👣 🌟\n\nFirst\ , before the usual nonsense of The Words\, an important announcement:\n\nI t is with huge sadness that we share the news that SH4's\, frankly\, all-r ound marvellous Morticia passed away yesterday morning.\n\nTaking from som e 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 t hrough - will be terribly missed by all of us.\n\nI think I speak for ever yone when we extend all our love and kindest thoughts to Gomez\, Pugsley a nd family at this incredibly difficult time.\n\nPugsley has said that deta ils of the funeral will shared in due course.\n\n🌟 👣 🌟\n_________ _______________________________\n🌟 👣 🌟\n\nHASH 1500 - CHILLINGTON \n\nWell\, the weather got the memo about the hash being from Chillington: it was fluffing cold. The GM\, with her best intentions\, brought us quic kly into the circle to do the normal hellos\, safety notice and on to the hares\, being Lactaster &\; Dirty Nights\, ably assisted by Pugsley (hi s flour shot)\, Overshot (Games master &\; T-shirt designer) and Pinky (pack pointer).\n\nNot more than 30 seconds in\, it descended into the nor mal riff raff half-listening\, many last-minute hellos\, and the 'On on th at 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 for got my blindfold.\n\nSo\, the trail ….. it was a bit like the nursery rh yme ‘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 liqu id sunshine had clearly taken its toll on them. I overhead even the gazell es amongst us were unable to hop\, skip and a jump up and down them\, and were tamed to a trot.\n\nBut\, sorry\, before this I missed the some of th e 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’l l leave the next 10minutes to the imagination as to how aligning to this d id or did not neatly come to fruition.\n\nSo\, assuming the pack were well arranged\, the Lord among us pulled out about eight unwilling hashers int o the centre and commanded they wore their blindfolds. We shall not name t hose that had forgotten the vital item frequently discussed on the messeng er chat\, alongside Dimmers' hand-cuffs...glad to say they did not materia lise. I would hazard a guess that the game was loosely based on the Olympi c 400meters race\, crossed with handball without the ball.\n\nSo began an amusing ‘find the hasher’ game\, where the small central pack shouted ‘Where are you?’ and one unaware hasher shouted the globally-recognise d 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 too k 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 o f this.\n\nI can only assume the speedier\, less concerned\, blindfolded h ashers were just very competitive and it was nothing to do with the potent ial opportunity to accidentally find a fellow hasher with outstretched fon dl..searching hands. So\, in grand style after the game had played out\, t he Lord announced the Gold\, Silver and Bronze winners to a pack which was already half way out the gate and onto the trail.\n\nGame 2: the hash Flo ur 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 Bai leys and chocolates at the Beer stop: it’s the gold standard (True Olymp ic BS Style).\n\nSorry\, I almost omitted the putt marker (Rubbery) ensuri ng 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 th e Olympic field sport): again\, some simple rules - throw from behind this line\; the putt must remain within the throwing area\; mark where you put t lands\; return the putt to the next hasher. Well\, again\, rules were th warted and Pugsley resignedly said\, time and time again\, ‘within the b oundaries’\, ‘bring back the putt’\, and so on.\n\nAlas\, the trail was done\, and with the Olympics completed the closing ceremony commenced in the pub\, with Doggy Style's debut as RA.\n\nThe commendations were awa rded to :\n• Rusty and or Rizzo - for yet another outing for the dependa ble pocket torch\n• Nice Tackle - accidental Boob Checking (wink wink)\n • Wet Spot’s - suggestion he could just close his eyes (always the cou rt jester)\n• Can't Come - out of bounds shot\n• Wetspot - breaking th e flour putt (little did he know the game was already out of\nreach)\n• Barberella - on trial stuck in a bush\n• The Lord - being the only gazel le to remain leaping (well\, 'tis the season)\n• Cowpat's valiant effort to support the 1500th in the pub\n• Dirty Nights (likely name and natur e) return from honeymoon\n• Filth &\; Rubbery for the successful Pre- xmas in Brixham\nShotputt winners:\n• Muckspreader (slight advantage as a farmer? Who knows\, what else would give him such a strong arm)\n• Sha ggy (small but clearly mighty)\nFinally\, the T-shirts\n• 100 Dirty Nigh ts\n• 200 Lactaster\n• 200\, 300\, 400 &\; 500 Olive\nDown downs we re awarded to the spectacular 1500th hares and support that made the eveni ng the Awesome Olympics for SH4.\n\nON-ON to ERMINGTON!\n\nPhoto credit: R ubbery\n_________________\n👣\n\n🏃 📸 🍻 You can enjoy a choice s election of photos from the Chillington hash on 4th December 2024 by check ing out Hash Flash's purpose-built photo album on the SH4 Facebook page 📸 🏃🍻\n\n________________________________________\nNext SH4 Hash 🐷👣:\n\nHASH 1501 - ERMINGTON\, 11th December\, 2024\n\nCIRCLE UP:\nT he Crooked Spire\nThe Square\nRemington\nPL21 9LP\nWhat3Words: taller.roll ed.pressing\nON DOWN:\nAs above\n\nPub Tel: 01548 831523\n\nHares: Py and Lady Godiva\nRA: TBC\n\nFor further info\, please see the Hash 1501 event page on theSH4 Facebook Group.\n\n📝 If you're the lucky Scribe at ERMIN GTON on 11th December\, please submit your edition of The Words to theword s@sh4.org.uk by Sunday evening (15th December)\, ideally - TVM! 📝\n\nAd d your photos of how the evening went down (Weds 4th December\, 2024) to t he Hash 1501 photo album on SH4's Facebook page \, courtesy: Rubbery.\n 👣\n________________________________________\n\nHASH DIARY - Upcoming Ev ents\n🎄\n\nPOST-CHRISTMAS Hash Bash Weekend - 14th-16th February 2025\n \nIf 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:\n \nPayment to SH4 Bank Account:\nAcc. no.: 00263482 Sort code: 30-94-72\n\n  \;\n\n👣\n___________________\n\n__________________________________ ______\n\nSH4 'EALTH &\; SAFETY\n\nPlease make a note of the new SH4 ha sh phone number and add it to your phone:\n\n🌟 SH4 hash phone number: 0 7922 103701 🌟\n\nUse this number to call for assistance if you come 'un stuck' out on the trail\, or need to get a message to 'base camp' (On Down ) during the run .\n\n👣\n\n🌟 Don't forget to see Rusty Bottom or Chi ng Chong before the hash to log you out on trail using the new-fangled che cking-out/checking-in app (developed by our very own digital-wizard\, Whis perer).\n\nDon't forget to also check back in with the 'On Secs you're saf ely back. 🌟\n\n👣\n________________________________________\n\nSH4 Me rcHASHdise\n\nShow your love for SH4 and wear your membership proudly with a bespoke 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.\, you can afford one for every vehicle in your fleet! 😊\n\nSee a me mber of the committee at the next meet for yours.\n\n👣 - The Words acco rding to WINNIE THE POO\n🌟 👣 🌟\n\nFirst\, before the usual nonsen se of The Words\, an important announcement:\n\nIt is with huge sadness th at we share the news that SH4's\, frankly\, all-round marvellous Morticia passed away yesterday morning.\n\nTaking from some of the words that have been written by her hash family over the last 24 hours\, a huge part of th e SH4 from the very beginning\, this much-beloved\, wonderful\, kind and g entle human being - a true hasher\, through and through - will be terribly missed by all of us.\n\nI think I speak for everyone when we extend all o ur love and kindest thoughts to Gomez\, Pugsley and family at this incredi bly difficult time.\n\nPugsley has said that details of the funeral will s hared in due course.\n\n🌟 👣 🌟\n__________________________________ ______\n🌟 👣 🌟\n\nHASH 1500 - CHILLINGTON\n\nWell\, the weather go t the memo about the hash being from Chillington: it was fluffing cold. Th e 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 & amp\; Dirty Nights\, ably assisted by Pugsley (his flour shot)\, Overshot (Games master &\; T-shirt designer) and Pinky (pack pointer).\n\nNot mo re than 30 seconds in\, it descended into the normal riff raff half-listen ing\, 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 o f the trail' - and\, unique to the 1500th\, I forgot my blindfold.\n\nSo\, 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 no r 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 t aken 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.\n\n But\, sorry\, before this I missed the some of the best bits…. The Olymp ic Games! Two in total\, the first being shortly after we set off. Lord Ov ershot commanding his playing field arranged the rabble in slow time aroun d in a circle. Some of the pack may have noticed there were flour dots nic ely laid out to support this creation\, but I’ll leave the next 10minute s to the imagination as to how aligning to this did or did not neatly come to fruition.\n\nSo\, assuming the pack were well arranged\, the Lord amon g us pulled out about eight unwilling hashers into the centre and commande d they wore their blindfolds. We shall not name those that had forgotten t he vital item frequently discussed on the messenger chat\, alongside Dimme rs' hand-cuffs...glad to say they did not materialise. I would hazard a gu ess that the game was loosely based on the Olympic 400meters race\, crosse d with handball without the ball.\n\nSo began an amusing ‘find the hashe r’ game\, where the small central pack shouted ‘Where are you?’ and one unaware hasher shouted the globally-recognised hasher response\, ‘On On’ - 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.\n\nI can only ass ume the speedier\, less concerned\, blindfolded hashers were just very com petitive and it was nothing to do with the potential opportunity to accide ntally find a fellow hasher with outstretched fondl..searching hands. So\, in grand style after the game had played out\, the Lord announced the Gol d\, Silver and Bronze winners to a pack which was already half way out the gate and onto the trail.\n\nGame 2: the hash Flour Shot\, as notably well -tended-to by Pugsley and well-placed by the well-tended beer stop. Firstl y\, I must commend the perfect combination of Baileys and chocolates at th e Beer stop: it’s the gold standard (True Olympic BS Style).\n\nSorry\, I almost omitted the putt marker (Rubbery) ensuring all hashers had a mini ature 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): a gain\, some simple rules - throw from behind this line\; the putt must rem ain within the throwing area\; mark where you putt lands\; return the putt to the next hasher. Well\, again\, rules were thwarted and Pugsley resign edly said\, time and time again\, ‘within the boundaries’\, ‘bring b ack the putt’\, and so on.\n\nAlas\, the trail was done\, and with the O lympics completed the closing ceremony commenced in the pub\, with Doggy S tyle's debut as RA.\n\nThe commendations were awarded to :\n• Rusty and or Rizzo - for yet another outing for the dependable pocket torch\n• Nic e Tackle - accidental Boob Checking (wink wink)\n• Wet Spot’s - sugges tion he could just close his eyes (always the court jester)\n• Can't Com e - out of bounds shot\n• Wetspot - breaking the flour putt (little did he know the game was already out of\nreach)\n• Barberella - on trial stu ck in a bush\n• The Lord - being the only gazelle to remain leaping (wel l\, 'tis the season)\n• Cowpat's valiant effort to support the 1500th in the pub\n• Dirty Nights (likely name and nature) return from honeymoon\ n• Filth &\; Rubbery for the successful Pre-xmas in Brixham\nShotputt winners:\n• Muckspreader (slight advantage as a farmer? Who knows\, wha t else would give him such a strong arm)\n• Shaggy (small but clearly mi ghty)\nFinally\, the T-shirts\n• 100 Dirty Nights\n• 200 Lactaster\n • 200\, 300\, 400 &\; 500 Olive\nDown downs were awarded to the spect acular 1500th hares and support that made the evening the Awesome Olympics for SH4.\n\nON-ON to ERMINGTON!\n\nPhoto credit: Rubbery\n_______________ __\n👣\n\n🏃 📸 🍻 You can enjoy a choice selection of photos from the Chillington hash on 4th December 2024 by checking out Hash Flash's pu rpose-built photo album on the SH4 Facebook page 📸 🏃🍻\n\n________ ________________________________\nNext SH4 Hash 🐷👣:\n\nHASH 1501 - E RMINGTON\, 11th December\, 2024\n\nCIRCLE UP:\nThe Crooked Spire\nThe Squa re\nRemington\nPL21 9LP\nWhat3Words: taller.rolled.pressing\nON DOWN:\nAs above\n\nPub Tel: 01548 831523\n\nHares: Py and Lady Godiva\nRA: TBC\n\nFo r further info\, please see the Hash 1501 event page on theSH4 Facebook Gr oup.\n\n📝 If you're the lucky Scribe at ERMINGTON on 11th December\, pl ease submit your edition of The Words to thewords@sh4.org.uk by Sunday eve ning (15th December)\, ideally - TVM! 📝\n\nAdd your photos of how the e vening went down (Weds 4th December\, 2024) to the Hash 1501 photo album o n SH4's Facebook page \, courtesy: Rubbery.\n👣\n_______________________ _________________\n\nHASH DIARY - Upcoming Events\n🎄\n\nPOST-CHRISTMAS Hash Bash Weekend - 14th-16th February 2025\n\nIf you have booked your spo t for this snazzy SH4 getaway but haven't yet paid your deposit\, please s end your £50 asap to the SH4 bank account\, quoting your hash name and pi ng a quick message to Hash Cash to confirm:\n\nPayment to SH4 Bank Account :\nAcc. no.: 00263482 Sort code: 30-94-72\n\n \;\n\n👣\n____________ _______\n\n________________________________________\n\nSH4 'EALTH &\; S AFETY\n\nPlease make a note of the new SH4 hash phone number and add it to your phone:\n\n🌟 SH4 hash phone number: 07922 103701 🌟\n\nUse 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 .\n\n👣\n\ n🌟 Don't forget to see Rusty Bottom or Ching Chong before the hash to l og you out on trail using the new-fangled checking-out/checking-in app (de veloped by our very own digital-wizard\, Whisperer).\n\nDon't forget to al so check back in with the 'On Secs you're safely back. 🌟\n\n👣\n_____ ___________________________________\n\nSH4 MercHASHdise\n\nShow your love for SH4 and wear your membership proudly with a bespoke 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.\, you can afford one for every vehicle in your fleet! 😊\n\nSee a member of the committee at the next meet for yours.\n\n👣 CATEGORIES:Hash Trails LOCATION:Bear & Blacksmith The Bear and Blacksmith\, Chillington\, TQ7 2LD GEO:50.272835;-3.695758 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Bear and Blacksmith\, C hillington\, TQ7 2LD\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bear & Bl acksmith:geo:50.272835,-3.695758 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR