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:542@sh4.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250101T115000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250101T150000 DTSTAMP:20250107T105035Z URL:https://www.sh4.org.uk/events/hash-1504/ SUMMARY:South Hams H4 Hash 1504 - New Years Day Hash - California Inn DESCRIPTION:The Words according to VINDALOO\nMuch-loved Morticia's send-off will be held at midday this Wednesday 8 January at South Milton Church (5 New Buildings\, South Milton\, Kingsbridge TQ7 3JN)\, with the burial tak ing place at the South Milton burial ground opposite. There will be a gath ering at South Milton Village Hall (South Milton\, Kingsbridge\, TQ7 3JQ) afterwards. Gomez\, Pugsley and family would love it if you were able to a ttend.\n🌟 πŸ‘£ 🌟\n\nHASH 1504 - NEW YEAR'S DAY HASH\, CALIFORNIA INN \n\n(Words were written amongst my shopping list\, so there may be a few T esco extra words that don’t belong...)\n\nThe first hash of 2025 dawned\ , but at a very specific time 11.50am\, which caught some hashers out (Ed. 'specific' and 'hasher' are not words that often hang out in the same sen tence) - like myself\, who was nearly late\, dawdling along the lanes.\n\n I was pleased to see a space in the car park\, but with a hidden trap - a large puddle - so I had to park untidily in front of it\, encouraged by Gn ashers toothpaste. In my haste to join the crowd\, which had surged from t he middle of the car park to the end - seamlessly\, like a shoal of fish ( Ed. what a vision... Presumably\, the [high] reflective-lycra quotient onl y added to the illusion?). I snatched up a woolly hat from my bag\, but wi th it came a pair of pants. Luckily\, I noticed my mistake before it was s potted\, and threw them back in. (Ed. Oh\, how disappointing...) Being lat e\, I missed the first part of the GM’s welcome speech\, but I did hear her call out\, "You are doing the words\, Vindaloo\, my love…" (Ed. Oh\, thank goodness you didn't miss that important bit\, Vinders!)\n\nThere ha d been a warning about the first part of the trail being along the road\, and Doggy Style took H and S seriously\, by following the runners in her W agon Wheel\, slowly\, like a rolling road cheese block. It left the coast clear for Fenn to do his business\, unhindered by cars. Pugsley and Boaty made the most of it\, running around slower hashers\, much to the concern of Yeuk. Olive\, accustomed to stopping the traffic\, used her police offi cer training to take charge. (Ed. I did not know that police training incl uding harnessing the might of giant choc-and-mallow biscuits and/or gargan tuan Gorgonzola. Consider myself 'skooled'.)\n\nBeing a wet day\, visibili ty was poor - so bad\, in fact\, that Cow Pat stopped at what she took to be a check\, but it was in fact a hub cap (Ed. easy mistake...πŸ˜†) - at l east that wasn’t flour washed out in the rain.\n\nNokkers and I trotted on with Cow Pat\, Jyde and Know Nuts. We were relieved when we could at la st be off the main road\, and into the fields - private land\, virgin terr itory. It was a great run\, and we were reminded to follow the marks caref ully by the stream\, otherwise we could be waist-deep in mud. Marty was a casualty of not heeding this advice: she and Mabel ended up to their chest s in it\, and had to put themselves through one of their own industrial wa shing machines Persil. Poor Mabel had already got an electric shock from t he fence\, so it wasn’t her day. Fob Jockey was also seen to be mud-wres tling with Undercovers in the mangrove swamps (Ed. how delightfully neo-cl assical)\, and Py pie fell in the rainy conditions. Rizzo was reported to have got across the stream\, then decided to run back the way she had just come (Ed. fancied another shot at falling in?) - poor old thing\, not as young as she was: her birthday cake is later this week.\n\nWGAS toilet rol l\, deputising for Wet Spot\, was trying to splash other hashers in the mu ddy puddles\, but it backfired and he got himself muddier than anyone else (Ed. a valiant effort\, but sounds as though WetSpot may still retain his Chief Mischief-maker title...). Some people were short-cutting - namely\, Gaffer\, Nice Tackle and Winnie. The Lost Causes were first ones back\, n ot short-cutting - Barbarella\, Olive olives and Lowt'arse starting the ye ar as they mean to go on. Look out\, FRBs...\n\nEven back in the car park\ , the drama was far from over: Judith was digging in the puddle\, looking for a lost key. Know Nuts was calling anxiously from the car\, not β€œ On on'\, but β€œLet me out” - victim of the child-locks: Nutcracker shuts i n him in there when she wants a quiet moment (Ed. ahhh\, that old chestnut !) (how we laughed). Ging Gang and Goolie\, arriving late\, had decided no t to run but to catch up on some calls to the family: so much hot air was exchanged that the windows on the posh car had steamed up\, and Goolie was reminded of an incident in his younger days… cucumber (Ed. we [probably ] don't want to know....! πŸ‘€πŸ˜†)\n\nAt the Inn\, where there was room ( Ed. nicely done)\, we were directed to our own finest quarters\, but there was only one Down Down. This was awarded to Undercovers\, not for mud-wre stling lard\, but for 100 runs. He had a beer half\, which was drunk befor e the singing had even begun\, and - pleased with his new red onion vest - was last seen rushing back to Modbury to model it for Mrs Undercovers (Ed . I hope he didn't start peeling off any layers prematurely..?).\n\nWell d one the hares\, Doggy Style and Tight Salted Nuts (Ed. suspect a condition not limited to just one hasher\, especially under several winter-running layers...πŸ₯œ) for laying a hash on NY Day in challenging conditions\, and for a great biscuit\, and drink\, stop.\n\nOn On to a wonderful 2025.\n\n Photo credit: Rubbery\nπŸ‘£\n\nπŸƒ πŸ“Έ 🍻 You can enjoy a mixed bag ph otos from the California Cross New Year's Day Hash on 1st January 2025 by checking out Hash Flash's purpose-built photo album on the SH4 Facebook pa ge πŸ“Έ πŸƒπŸ»\nπŸ‘£\n________________________________________\nNext SH4 Hash πŸ·πŸ‘£:\n\nHASH 1505 - DARTMOUTH\, 8th January 2025\n\nCIRCLE UP 7 .25pm\nDartmouth Visitor Centre\nEngine House\,\nMayers Avenue\,\nDartmout h\nTQ6 NYY\nWhat3Words: website.dummy.nerve\n\nON DOWN:\nRoyal Castle Hote l\n11 The Quay\nDartmouth\nTQ6 9P6\nWhat3Words: crumbles.animal.nurture\n\ nParking: On-street and small parking areas locally e.g Flavel Place or la rge carpark opposite George and Dragon at What3Words: stressed.poppy.slung \n\nFood orders to Can't Come by Sunday 5th January by email (richard.ambr ose68@gmail.com).\n\nPay on the day direct with Pub.\n\nKitchen closes at 8:45pm\n\nMenu: https://royalcastle.co.uk/food-and-drink?mguid=9ef1bd37-12 1e-4c90-addc-99b242a8835e (Autumn Evening Menu)\n\nHares: Can't Come &\ ; Ching Chong\nRA: TBC\n\nFor further info\, please see the Hash 1505 even t page on the SH4 Facebook Group.\n\nAdd your photos of how the day went d own (Weds 8th January\, 2025) to the Hash 1505 photo album on SH4's Facebo ok page \, courtesy: Rubbery.\n\nπŸ“ If you are the lucky Scribe at Dartm outh on 8th January\, please submit your edition of The Words to thewords@ sh4.org.uk by Sunday evening (12th January\, 2025) - TVM! πŸ“\nπŸ‘£\n____ ____________________________________\nHASH DIARY - Upcoming Events\nπŸŽ„\n \n🌟🌟 POST-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 up\, please send your £££ asap to the SH4 bank account\, qu oting your hash name and ping a quick message to Hash Cash (Blown Off) to confirm.\n\nIf you're not sure how much you owe\, please speak to Filth/Bl own Off.\n\n🌟 Balances are (over)due - please 🌟\n\nPayment to SH4 Ba nk Account:\nAcc. no.: 00263482 Sort code: 30-94-72\n\n \;\n\nπŸ‘£\n__ _________________\n\n________________________________________\n\nSH4 'EALT H &\; SAFETY\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 t rail\, or need to get a message to 'base camp' (On Down) during the run .\ n\nπŸ‘£\n\n🌟 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).\n\nDon't fo rget to also check back in with the 'On Secs you're safely back. 🌟\n\n πŸ‘£\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\, anyo ne else who wants one...) for the bargain sum of Β£0.50 ea.\, you can affo rd one for every vehicle in your fleet! 😊\n\nSee a member of the commit tee at the next meet for yours.\n\nπŸ‘£ - The Words according to VINDALOO\ nMuch-loved Morticia's send-off will be held at midday this Wednesday 8 Ja nuary at South Milton Church (5 New Buildings\, South Milton\, Kingsbridge TQ7 3JN)\, with the burial taking place at the South Milton burial ground opposite. There will be a gathering at South Milton Village Hall (South M ilton\, Kingsbridge\, TQ7 3JQ) afterwards. Gomez\, Pugsley and family woul d love it if you were able to attend.\n🌟 πŸ‘£ 🌟\n\nHASH 1504 - NEW Y EAR'S DAY HASH\, CALIFORNIA INN\n\n(Words were written amongst my shopping list\, so there may be a few Tesco extra words that don’t belong...)\n\ nThe first hash of 2025 dawned\, but at a very specific time 11.50am\, whi ch caught some hashers out (Ed. 'specific' and 'hasher' are not words that often hang out in the same sentence) - like myself\, who was nearly late\ , dawdling along the lanes.\n\nI was pleased to see a space in the car par k\, but with a hidden trap - a large puddle - so I had to park untidily in front of it\, encouraged by Gnashers toothpaste. In my haste to join the crowd\, which had surged from the middle of the car park to the end - seam lessly\, like a shoal of fish (Ed. what a vision... Presumably\, the [high ] reflective-lycra quotient only added to the illusion?). I snatched up a woolly hat from my bag\, but with it came a pair of pants. Luckily\, I not iced my mistake before it was spotted\, and threw them back in. (Ed. Oh\, how disappointing...) Being late\, I missed the first part of the GM’s w elcome speech\, but I did hear her call out\, "You are doing the words\, V indaloo\, my love…" (Ed. Oh\, thank goodness you didn't miss that import ant bit\, Vinders!)\n\nThere had been a warning about the first part of th e trail being along the road\, and Doggy Style took H and S seriously\, by following the runners in her Wagon Wheel\, slowly\, like a rolling road c heese block. It left the coast clear for Fenn to do his business\, unhinde red by cars. Pugsley and Boaty made the most of it\, running around slower hashers\, much to the concern of Yeuk. Olive\, accustomed to stopping the traffic\, used her police officer training to take charge. (Ed. I did not know that police training including harnessing the might of giant choc-an d-mallow biscuits and/or gargantuan Gorgonzola. Consider myself 'skooled'. )\n\nBeing a wet day\, visibility was poor - so bad\, in fact\, that Cow P at stopped at what she took to be a check\, but it was in fact a hub cap ( Ed. easy mistake...πŸ˜†) - at least that wasn’t flour washed out in the rain.\n\nNokkers and I trotted on with Cow Pat\, Jyde and Know Nuts. We we re relieved when we could at last be off the main road\, and into the fiel ds - private land\, virgin territory. It was a great run\, and we were rem inded to follow the marks carefully by the stream\, otherwise we could be waist-deep in mud. Marty was a casualty of not heeding this advice: she an d Mabel ended up to their chests in it\, and had to put themselves through one of their own industrial washing machines Persil. Poor Mabel had alrea dy got an electric shock from the fence\, so it wasn’t her day. Fob Jock ey was also seen to be mud-wrestling with Undercovers in the mangrove swam ps (Ed. how delightfully neo-classical)\, and Py pie fell in the rainy con ditions. Rizzo was reported to have got across the stream\, then decided t o run back the way she had just come (Ed. fancied another shot at falling in?) - poor old thing\, not as young as she was: her birthday cake is late r this week.\n\nWGAS toilet roll\, deputising for Wet Spot\, was trying to splash other hashers in the muddy puddles\, but it backfired and he got h imself muddier than anyone else (Ed. a valiant effort\, but sounds as thou gh WetSpot may still retain his Chief Mischief-maker title...). Some peopl e were short-cutting - namely\, Gaffer\, Nice Tackle and Winnie. The Lost Causes were first ones back\, not short-cutting - Barbarella\, Olive olive s and Lowt'arse starting the year as they mean to go on. Look out\, FRBs.. .\n\nEven back in the car park\, the drama was far from over: Judith was d igging in the puddle\, looking for a lost key. Know Nuts was calling anxio usly from the car\, not β€œ On on'\, but β€œLet me out” - victim of the child-locks: Nutcracker shuts in him in there when she wants a quiet momen t (Ed. ahhh\, that old chestnut!) (how we laughed). Ging Gang and Goolie\, arriving late\, had decided not to run but to catch up on some calls to t he family: so much hot air was exchanged that the windows on the posh car had steamed up\, and Goolie was reminded of an incident in his younger day s… cucumber (Ed. we [probably] don't want to know....! πŸ‘€πŸ˜†)\n\nAt t he Inn\, where there was room (Ed. nicely done)\, we were directed to our own finest quarters\, but there was only one Down Down. This was awarded t o Undercovers\, not for mud-wrestling lard\, but for 100 runs. He had a be er half\, which was drunk before the singing had even begun\, and - please d with his new red onion vest - was last seen rushing back to Modbury to m odel it for Mrs Undercovers (Ed. I hope he didn't start peeling off any la yers prematurely..?).\n\nWell done the hares\, Doggy Style and Tight Salte d Nuts (Ed. suspect a condition not limited to just one hasher\, especiall y under several winter-running layers...πŸ₯œ) for laying a hash on NY Day in challenging conditions\, and for a great biscuit\, and drink\, stop.\n\ nOn On to a wonderful 2025.\n\nPhoto credit: Rubbery\nπŸ‘£\n\nπŸƒ πŸ“Έ 🍻 You can enjoy a mixed bag photos from the California Cross New Year's Day Hash on 1st January 2025 by checking out Hash Flash's purpose-built p hoto album on the SH4 Facebook page πŸ“Έ πŸƒπŸ»\nπŸ‘£\n_________________ _______________________\nNext SH4 Hash πŸ·πŸ‘£:\n\nHASH 1505 - DARTMOUTH\ , 8th January 2025\n\nCIRCLE UP 7.25pm\nDartmouth Visitor Centre\nEngine H ouse\,\nMayers Avenue\,\nDartmouth\nTQ6 NYY\nWhat3Words: website.dummy.ner ve\n\nON DOWN:\nRoyal Castle Hotel\n11 The Quay\nDartmouth\nTQ6 9P6\nWhat3 Words: crumbles.animal.nurture\n\nParking: On-street and small parking are as locally e.g Flavel Place or large carpark opposite George and Dragon at What3Words: stressed.poppy.slung\n\nFood orders to Can't Come by Sunday 5 th January by email (richard.ambrose68@gmail.com).\n\nPay on the day direc t with Pub.\n\nKitchen closes at 8:45pm\n\nMenu: https://royalcastle.co.uk /food-and-drink?mguid=9ef1bd37-121e-4c90-addc-99b242a8835e (Autumn Evening Menu)\n\nHares: Can't Come &\; Ching Chong\nRA: TBC\n\nFor further inf o\, please see the Hash 1505 event page on the SH4 Facebook Group.\n\nAdd your photos of how the day went down (Weds 8th January\, 2025) to the Hash 1505 photo album on SH4's Facebook page \, courtesy: Rubbery.\n\nπŸ“ If you are the lucky Scribe at Dartmouth on 8th January\, please submit your edition of The Words to thewords@sh4.org.uk by Sunday evening (12th Januar y\, 2025) - TVM! πŸ“\nπŸ‘£\n________________________________________\nHAS H DIARY - Upcoming Events\nπŸŽ„\n\n🌟🌟 POST-CHRISTMAS Hash Bash Weeke nd - 14th-16th February 2025 🌟🌟\n\nIf you have booked your spot for this snazzy SH4 getaway but haven't yet paid up\, please send your £££ asap to the SH4 bank account\, quoting your hash name and ping a quick mes sage to Hash Cash (Blown Off) to confirm.\n\nIf you're not sure how much y ou owe\, please speak to Filth/Blown Off.\n\n🌟 Balances are (over)due - please 🌟\n\nPayment to SH4 Bank Account:\nAcc. no.: 00263482 Sort code : 30-94-72\n\n \;\n\nπŸ‘£\n___________________\n\n____________________ ____________________\n\nSH4 'EALTH &\; SAFETY\n\nPlease make a note of the new SH4 hash phone number and add it to your phone:\n\n🌟 SH4 hash p hone number: 07922 103701 🌟\n\nUse this number to call for assistance i f you come 'unstuck' out on the trail\, or need to get a message to 'base camp' (On Down) during the run .\n\nπŸ‘£\n\n🌟 Don't forget to see Rusty Bottom or Ching Chong before the hash to log you out on trail using the n ew-fangled checking-out/checking-in app (developed by our very own digital -wizard\, Whisperer).\n\nDon't forget to also check back in with the 'On S ecs you're safely back. 🌟\n\nπŸ‘£\n____________________________________ ____\n\nSH4 MercHASHdise\n\nShow your love for SH4 and wear your membershi p 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 Β£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\nπŸ‘£ CATEGORIES:Hash Trails LOCATION:California Inn California Cross\, Loddiswell\, PL21 0SG GEO:50.36236;-3.823229 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=California Cross\, Loddiswe ll\, PL21 0SG\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=California Inn:g eo:50.36236,-3.823229 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