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:550@sh4.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250215T111500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250215T161500 DTSTAMP:20250225T231411Z URL:https://www.sh4.org.uk/events/hash-1511-post-christmas-hash-10-for-pas ties-and-beer-stops/ SUMMARY:South Hams H4 Hash 1511 - Post Christmas Hash £10 for run only\, p asty and beer - Victoria Hotel DESCRIPTION:Arrive Friday afternoon to enjoy the hotel facilities.\nFriday: Evening dinner followed by pub crawl around Torquay.\nSaturday:Breakfast f ollowed by extended day hash.Gala dinner/awards/live band.\nSunday:Breakfa st followed by Hare of the Dog hash\n\n\nThe Words according to DULUX (151 1 &\; 1512) &\; UNDERCOVERS (1513)\n🌟 👣 🌟\n\nHASH 1511 & \; 1512 - TORQUAY (Post-Xmas Hash Bash weekend)\n\nFriday\, Valentine's Da y... Well\, let’s start at the very beginning - a very good place to sta rt. We begin with a b c: At the Bar with Cheap beer on the Friday afternoo n\; a bit of strategy-planning for the weekend... [Ed. Assorted alcoholic drinks - some with umbrellas (well\, they might as well have been) - consu med in quick succession being famously conducive to the formulating of str ategic thoughts...] Well\, we are known as a drinking club with a running problem... A quick dip in the pool to freshen up for some\, and a wholesom e evening meal at the Victoria restaurant before heading out. Good luck dr inking or dancing to those who had managed the jumbo jam sponge and custar d [Ed. excellent ballast for the rest of the evening...!]. A number of has hers stayed back to get their fix of their gaming habit - Vindaloo and Gar y Glitter - a sensible move. Dress code was glitz and glamour for the even ing: you can rely on shrinking violets\, Pony Shafter and Filth\, to lead the way [Ed. I have seen less sparkly disco-balls].\n\nThe evening pub cra wl was a criss-cross of entertainment across the bay\, and made even more spectacular with the addition of jolly hashers dressed in gold and silver\ , including Ginger Spice. It may be a first [Ed. doubtful...] that the cli entele at Yates' were far worse for wear before we arrived\, but they trul y enjoyed the addition of sparkle\, a smoke machine and the fire alarm to complete their eve. A sing-song with the retiring local gentlemen in the I rish bar\, and then the group partied on to the Starlight disco. Filth lit up the harbour with her flashing disco trainers\, much admired by the loc als - along with Pony/Ginger Spice\, who was wolf-whistled by youngsters. What a down town girl! [Ed. swit-swoooh!]\n\nPhoto credit: Rubbery\n\nHASH 1511\nHashers enjoyed a full [Ed. English? Continental? Plate of?] breakf ast: it was reported that Spunky McSpunkface had breakfast...then porridge \, kippers\, omelette...then went round again. [Ed. exemplary resourcefuln ess! You never know when the next meal...oh\, that's right: just chocolate biscuits\, sweets\, crisps and a cornucopia of car-boot beverages in abou t an hour...?]\n\nA keen group of hashers circled up at 11.30am to find Ol ive had organised a warm-up session. I say 'session'\; it was an aerobics class in the rain - you can witness the evidence on Facebook. [Ed. there w as some genuine concern we might all 'peak' before we left the hotel carpa rk!]\n\nAh\, at last - the hash: we were off. Hares\, Winnie the Poo and B lown Off had set the routes in foul weather the day before\, so you knew i t was going to be wet. A Long and a Short - perfect\; two beer\nstops - ev en better - by Filth\, Rubbery and Pony. Around the seafront we went\, the fluorescent brigade of orange and lime were off to enjoy the panoramic vi ews of the English Rivieria. Silly Shunt was only just stayin' alive by ja y-walking across a road\; Jelly Baby was witness to her screams.\n\nNow\, you think that Torbaydos is a flat\, fun town [Ed. I don't remember that b it\, either...] - but no\; the hares found the steep\, rural hills and woo ds full of shiggy. The route was very well marked and kept the group toget her\; the hares swept both routes. Barbarella took a tumble like a rolling stone. I\, Dulux\, ended on knees in orange shiggy and was promptly named Terracotta Warrior by Yeuk [Ed. a 'tan' to rival to tat of the Cinnamon A donis\, at last!]. We heard through the grapevine that Vindaloo had declin ed an embrace at the kissing gate\, but she was seen doing circuits throug h the woods with Lowt'arse. Tyred Bunny was reported running up that hill in jeans.\n\nWindy Puff missed the beer stop totally. I would call that sh ortcutting\, as that hill was the most 'inclined'. There is photographic e vidence to suggest Twisted Sister and Lazy Git\, having completed the majo rity and worst bit of the hash\, were then found in the Devon Dumpling pub [Ed. this sounds very unlikely...]. Yeuk nearly pulled...a tendon that is . Shaggy did not fall [Ed. well\, not sure it qualified as 'falling'\, exa ctly...]\, but accumulated so much dirt she looked like she had been rolli n' rollin' rollin' down a river.\n\nFluffy Dice couldn’t find his way ar ound\, disorientated and complaining about a moist hat. He had reportedly already gone back to the car to retrieve Silly Shunt's sports bra [Ed. has h heroism at its finest]. That's Crap offered his support for said cause [ Ed. selfless] but it wasn’t held up [Ed. Buh-bum-tishhh!]. Can’t Come was rather too excited eating his chocolate biscuit at the beer stop - I d on’t think his sugar rush had worn off until 1.30am\, as evidenced by hi s dancing. Nice Tackle would like a name change\, as signs on route kept r eminding him of large tackle available [Ed. something to prove\, Nice Tack le? 😂😉].\n\nPy won the Short 'race'\, and Spunky on Longs. (It’s n ot a race!) Blue Nun and Triple Top completed nearly 100 miles of hills th at day but that was on two wheels not two legs [Ed. doesn't count\, then.. . 😁].\nDoggy Style\, our esteemed GM\, gave instructions for strictly n o shoes back at the Hotel!! Do as I say and not as I do\, she quoted\; the re was mud everywhere. And finally\, Filth was rumoured to be caught at th e photocopier making duplicate drinks tokens.\n\nThe regroup at Alberts Ba r with hot pasties and beer was very welcome.\n\nOlive was the RA for the day: I spotted she was writing her memoirs... Good job\, because I could u se them for the second edition words. Olive thanked the hotel on our behal f and noted that Valentine's Day had not gone unnoticed\, with one hasher having multiple loves: his dear wife\, Marty\, Plymouth Argyle and Liverpo ol FC... Lucky man\, Dimmers.\n\nDown Downs were awarded to:\n• Blown Of f and Winnie the Poo - hares\n• Filth\, Rubbery and Pony for superb beer stops.\n• Dulux for 500 t-shirt.\nPhoto Credit: Beefy Photo Credit: Bee fy\n\nPhoto Credit: Rubbery\n\nON ON to the Do...Hash Dinner Dance and Awa rds:\n\nAll Hashers scrubbed up well for our sparkling event of the Hash y ear. A lovely meal\, and we danced the night away to Nine Odd Notes. Our G M\, Doggy Style\, aided by Tight Nuts compèred the evening with their gla morous assistant\, Olive. Goolie was thanked for finding the venue\, and F ilth was thanked for a great job in organising. Numerous certificates of e xcellence for deeds and misdemeanours were awarded on the red carpet and p hotographed for posterity. [Ed. not forgetting the (hash record-breaking?) despatch of 19? 20? (half-pints of) Prosecco Down Downs. Fizzically trick ier than ale!]\n\nIn true hash style the after party continued... The Star light Disco next door had already begun...The 'bad taste' evening\, hosted by the local Belly Dancing Group\, made SH4 look tame and like pillars of society [Ed. sometimes\, a little smidgen of comparison can be healthy... ]. Their own pregnant Barbie had been dumped and was looking for a new Ken [Ed. and she had the lucky menfolk of SH4 in her pinkly be-feathered sigh ts... 😳].\n\nPhoto credit: Rubbery\n\nPhoto Credit: Pony Shafter\n\nHAS H 1512 - Hare of the Dog Hash\n\nCircle Up was at 10.45pm. Only one aerobi c warm up on this hash - is this going to be adopted? Hares\, Olive and Bl ue Nun\, had set a hash of 3.7 miles. [Some of] The keen\, hardy bunch wer e moving at a much faster pace than others [Ed. surely just on account of the abundant breakfast? Can't think of any other reasons for sluggishness on the day after the night-and-day-and-night before...]. Gary Glitter gave a historical\, photographic tour for the Walkers around Torr Abbey and ga rdens\, while the FRBs were seen heading towards Cockington. The only hurd le was the swan at the garden lake\, which was waiting to attack any strag glers. We know the hash route exactly\, as a local resident posted on the Facebook group\, ‘Spotted Torquay’\, re. the vast amount of flour foun d by trees that her dog had eaten and the poor thing had now been arrested for sniffing white substances. It was suggested online the hash next use small flags instead and the last person can pick them up [Ed. ...👀] . A ll suggestions for designs of said flags to be sent to the committee.\n\nB ig thank you to all the organisers\, entertainers\, hares and hashers for such a fantastic Hash Bash\nweekend [Ed. Hear\, hear!]\n\nON ON to CORNWOO D\n\nDULUX\n\nSo many photos... As per last week's email\, and in case you missed them\, you'll find a few (thousand) more from the Post-Xmas Weeken d shenanigans at the following Facebook albums:\n• Friday Night Frolics\ n• Saturday Hash 1511\n• Post-Xmas Gala weekend Saturday Night &\;\ nAwards\n• Hare of the Dog Hash 1512\n__________________________________ ______\n\n🌟 👣 🌟\nHash 1513 - CORNWOOD\nWords by UNDERCOVERS\n\nI really thought I had got away with it. [Ed. Oh\, Undercovers...still?] Tur ns out you have to be missing longer than Lord Lucan to avoid being collar ed for the Words.\n\nCircle Up was delayed by a couple of minutes while we were coaxed out of a perfectly dry pub into a perfectly wet car park. Our GM\, sheltering under a nice big umbrella\, was in no hurry to send us of f and eventually Gaffer gave us his fulsome briefing – the Long is furth er than the Short\, um… it’s a bit technical in places. On cue\, the r ain came down in a deluge of biblical proportions...and we were off.\n\nTh e wet road soon ran out and almost the entire hash was spent knee-deep in some of Cornwood’s finest bogs\, briefly interspersed with hacking throu gh brambles\, fording rivers and navigating dense woods. [Ed. excellent va lue hashing] That last bit was completed more subtly by some than others. Rizzo favoured the direct approach\, and any trees in her way were felled with a mighty shove in an impressive display of strength and a complete la ck of co-ordination.\n\nWith the going this soft\, there were inevitably s ome fallers. Shaggy obviously\, Overshot spectacularly and Pugsley similar ly. Olive\, stuck in a bog\, thought she was drowning. Gaffer\, consulting his health and safety manual\, told her she was not - whereupon she toppl ed face first into the wettest part she could find - predictably. [Ed. don 't contradict Olive 😆😘]\n\nImelda’s head torch fail brought Pugsle y to the rescue with a welcome offer of assistance – no hasher left behi nd being a code of honour we all like to follow – all except Pugsley\, w ho abandoned Imelda within 100 metres.\n\nAt one stage\, sunk knee-deep in a particularly moist section of Cornwood\, Rizzo exclaimed “this is hid eous!”. Gaffer\, standing strategically on the only dry bit for several miles\, grinned from ear to ear. This was precisely the endorsement that m ade all the hard work laying the trail worthwhile. [Ed. music to his Cinna mon ears...]\n\nInevitably\, we reached a stage where Gaffer’s two bags of flour ran out. Faced with yet another river crossing and unmarked jungl e trails\, unnamed Laura’s local knowledge led back to the road - and a soggy jog on to the pub.\n\nBack in the dry and various conversations were overheard: Overshot to Shaggy comparing Strava results “the map makes i t look quite a linear trail” translated from architect-speak: “blimey\ , that was wet.” Then Shaggy\, channelling her full Richard Dreyfuss\, i n a comparison of bramble cuts with other similarly scarred athletes [Ed. not\, of course\, to be confused with James Dreyfuss. As I did. And was\, er\, confused...!]. A bromance clearly evident as Re-Entry mentioned how m uch he enjoyed running with Muckspreader\, one of the few hashers [Ed. "al most" - you omitted Re-Entry's critical qualifier\, which narrowly averted the slip of making this an actual compliment 😘] able to keep up with h im.\n\nKnow Nuts made quite an entrance\, wearing plastic bags on his feet . Being the unconventional chap he is\, he had the recyclable food bag on his left foot when tradition dictates it must be worn on the right. I’m sure he knew what he was doing. [...👀]\n\nNice Buns (putting in a surpr ise appearance\, given the appalling weather) entertained us as RA\, and w e sweetly serenaded LowT'arse on the occasion of her Birthday. Nokkers was presented with “the fastest walker" T-shirt.\n\nDown Downs were awarded to:\n• Yeuk and Gaffer – laying an excellent trail\n• LowT'arse – Birthday\n• Nokkers – T-shirt\n• Laura – local knowledge and lead ership\n• Know Nuts – stylish footwear\n\nPS. Here's a fun fact [Ed. C limatic conditions didn't much lend themselves to extraneous fripperies at Circle Up last week...]. Apparently the surname "Moise" is well know in S t Lucia. The family own a clothing store called "Moise Underwear". Any of you SH4 hashers fancy being catalogue models? [Ed. cheap...😆]\n\nOn on to MARLDON. Apparently it is in the South Hams\, even though the map shows it's only just in Devon.\n\nPhoto credit: Whisperer\n👣\n\n🏃 📸 🍻 You can enjoy more a few more pics from the unmitigatedly soggy Cornw ood Hash on 19th February 2025 by checking out Hash Flash's purpose-built photo album on the SH4 Facebook page 📸 🏃🍻\n\n👣\n\nNext SH4 Has h 🐷👣:\n\nHASH 1514 - MARLDON\, 26th February 2025\n\nCIRCLE UP 7.25p m\nYe Old Smokey House\nVicarage Road\nMarldon\nPaignton\nTQ3 1NN\nWhat3Wo rds: smiled.pulled.fame\n\nON DOWN:\nInside Ye Old Smokey House\n\nHare: S quashed Balls\n\nParking: Please park at the far end of the large carpark. \n\nMenu: Main Menu\n\nFor further info\, including food ordering details\ , please see the Hash 1514 event page on the SH4 Facebook Group.\n\nAdd yo ur photos of how the day went down (Weds 26h February\, 2025) to the Hash 1514 photo album on SH4's Facebook page \, courtesy: Rubbery.\n\n📝 If y ou are the lucky Scribe at Marldon on 26th February\, please submit your e dition of The Words to thewords@sh4.org.uk by Sunday evening (2nd March\, 2025) - TVM! 📝\n👣\n\n________________________________________\n\nSH4 'EALTH &\; SAFETY\n\nPlease make a note of the new SH4 hash phone numb er 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 o n 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 bef ore the hash to log you out on trail using the new-fangled checking-out/ch ecking-in app (developed by our very own digital-wizard\, Whisperer).\n\nD on't forget to also 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 fai r\, 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 th e committee at the next meet for yours.\n\n👣\n\n - Arrive Friday aftern oon to enjoy the hotel facilities.\nFriday:Evening dinner followed by pub crawl around Torquay.\nSaturday:Breakfast followed by extended day hash.Ga la dinner/awards/live band.\nSunday:Breakfast followed by Hare of the Dog hash\n\n\nThe Words according to DULUX (1511 &\; 1512) &\; UNDERCOVE RS (1513)\n🌟 👣 🌟\n\nHASH 1511 &\; 1512 - TORQUAY (Post-Xmas Ha sh Bash weekend)\n\nFriday\, Valentine's Day... Well\, let’s start at th e very beginning - a very good place to start. We begin with a b c: At the Bar with Cheap beer on the Friday afternoon\; a bit of strategy-planning for the weekend... [Ed. Assorted alcoholic drinks - some with umbrellas (w ell\, they might as well have been) - consumed in quick succession being f amously conducive to the formulating of strategic thoughts...] Well\, we a re known as a drinking club with a running problem... A quick dip in the p ool to freshen up for some\, and a wholesome evening meal at the Victoria restaurant before heading out. Good luck drinking or dancing to those who had managed the jumbo jam sponge and custard [Ed. excellent ballast for th e rest of the evening...!]. A number of hashers stayed back to get their f ix of their gaming habit - Vindaloo and Gary Glitter - a sensible move. Dr ess code was glitz and glamour for the evening: you can rely on shrinking violets\, Pony Shafter and Filth\, to lead the way [Ed. I have seen less s parkly disco-balls].\n\nThe evening pub crawl was a criss-cross of enterta inment across the bay\, and made even more spectacular with the addition o f jolly hashers dressed in gold and silver\, including Ginger Spice. It ma y be a first [Ed. doubtful...] that the clientele at Yates' were far worse for wear before we arrived\, but they truly enjoyed the addition of spark le\, a smoke machine and the fire alarm to complete their eve. A sing-song with the retiring local gentlemen in the Irish bar\, and then the group p artied on to the Starlight disco. Filth lit up the harbour with her flashi ng disco trainers\, much admired by the locals - along with Pony/Ginger Sp ice\, who was wolf-whistled by youngsters. What a down town girl! [Ed. swi t-swoooh!]\n\nPhoto credit: Rubbery\n\nHASH 1511\nHashers enjoyed a full [ Ed. English? Continental? Plate of?] breakfast: it was reported that Spunk y McSpunkface had breakfast...then porridge\, kippers\, omelette...then we nt round again. [Ed. exemplary resourcefulness! You never know when the ne xt meal...oh\, that's right: just chocolate biscuits\, sweets\, crisps and a cornucopia of car-boot beverages in about an hour...?]\n\nA keen group of hashers circled up at 11.30am to find Olive had organised a warm-up ses sion. I say 'session'\; it was an aerobics class in the rain - you can wit ness the evidence on Facebook. [Ed. there was some genuine concern we migh t all 'peak' before we left the hotel carpark!]\n\nAh\, at last - the hash : we were off. Hares\, Winnie the Poo and Blown Off had set the routes in foul weather the day before\, so you knew it was going to be wet. A Long a nd a Short - perfect\; two beer\nstops - even better - by Filth\, Rubbery and Pony. Around the seafront we went\, the fluorescent brigade of orange and lime were off to enjoy the panoramic views of the English Rivieria. Si lly Shunt was only just stayin' alive by jay-walking across a road\; Jelly Baby was witness to her screams.\n\nNow\, you think that Torbaydos is a f lat\, fun town [Ed. I don't remember that bit\, either...] - but no\; the hares found the steep\, rural hills and woods full of shiggy. The route wa s very well marked and kept the group together\; the hares swept both rout es. Barbarella took a tumble like a rolling stone. I\, Dulux\, ended on kn ees in orange shiggy and was promptly named Terracotta Warrior by Yeuk [Ed . a 'tan' to rival to tat of the Cinnamon Adonis\, at last!]. We heard thr ough the grapevine that Vindaloo had declined an embrace at the kissing ga te\, but she was seen doing circuits through the woods with Lowt'arse. Tyr ed Bunny was reported running up that hill in jeans.\n\nWindy Puff missed the beer stop totally. I would call that shortcutting\, as that hill was t he most 'inclined'. There is photographic evidence to suggest Twisted Sist er and Lazy Git\, having completed the majority and worst bit of the hash\ , were then found in the Devon Dumpling pub [Ed. this sounds very unlikely ...]. Yeuk nearly pulled...a tendon that is. Shaggy did not fall [Ed. well \, not sure it qualified as 'falling'\, exactly...]\, but accumulated so m uch dirt she looked like she had been rollin' rollin' rollin' down a river .\n\nFluffy Dice couldn’t find his way around\, disorientated and compla ining about a moist hat. He had reportedly already gone back to the car to retrieve Silly Shunt's sports bra [Ed. hash heroism at its finest]. That' s Crap offered his support for said cause [Ed. selfless] but it wasn’t h eld up [Ed. Buh-bum-tishhh!]. Can’t Come was rather too excited eating h is chocolate biscuit at the beer stop - I don’t think his sugar rush had worn off until 1.30am\, as evidenced by his dancing. Nice Tackle would li ke a name change\, as signs on route kept reminding him of large tackle av ailable [Ed. something to prove\, Nice Tackle? 😂😉].\n\nPy won the Sh ort 'race'\, and Spunky on Longs. (It’s not a race!) Blue Nun and Triple Top completed nearly 100 miles of hills that day but that was on two whee ls not two legs [Ed. doesn't count\, then... 😁].\nDoggy Style\, our est eemed GM\, gave instructions for strictly no shoes back at the Hotel!! Do as I say and not as I do\, she quoted\; there was mud everywhere. And fina lly\, Filth was rumoured to be caught at the photocopier making duplicate drinks tokens.\n\nThe regroup at Alberts Bar with hot pasties and beer was very welcome.\n\nOlive was the RA for the day: I spotted she was writing her memoirs... Good job\, because I could use them for the second edition words. Olive thanked the hotel on our behalf and noted that Valentine's Da y had not gone unnoticed\, with one hasher having multiple loves: his dear wife\, Marty\, Plymouth Argyle and Liverpool FC... Lucky man\, Dimmers.\n \nDown Downs were awarded to:\n• Blown Off and Winnie the Poo - hares\n • Filth\, Rubbery and Pony for superb beer stops.\n• Dulux for 500 t-s hirt.\nPhoto Credit: Beefy Photo Credit: Beefy\n\nPhoto Credit: Rubbery\n\ nON ON to the Do...Hash Dinner Dance and Awards:\n\nAll Hashers scrubbed u p well for our sparkling event of the Hash year. A lovely meal\, and we da nced the night away to Nine Odd Notes. Our GM\, Doggy Style\, aided by Tig ht Nuts compèred the evening with their glamorous assistant\, Olive. Gool ie was thanked for finding the venue\, and Filth was thanked for a great j ob in organising. Numerous certificates of excellence for deeds and misdem eanours were awarded on the red carpet and photographed for posterity. [Ed . not forgetting the (hash record-breaking?) despatch of 19? 20? (half-pin ts of) Prosecco Down Downs. Fizzically trickier than ale!]\n\nIn true hash style the after party continued... The Starlight Disco next door had alre ady begun...The 'bad taste' evening\, hosted by the local Belly Dancing Gr oup\, made SH4 look tame and like pillars of society [Ed. sometimes\, a li ttle smidgen of comparison can be healthy...]. Their own pregnant Barbie h ad been dumped and was looking for a new Ken [Ed. and she had the lucky me nfolk of SH4 in her pinkly be-feathered sights... 😳].\n\nPhoto credit: Rubbery\n\nPhoto Credit: Pony Shafter\n\nHASH 1512 - Hare of the Dog Hash\ n\nCircle Up was at 10.45pm. Only one aerobic warm up on this hash - is th is going to be adopted? Hares\, Olive and Blue Nun\, had set a hash of 3.7 miles. [Some of] The keen\, hardy bunch were moving at a much faster pace than others [Ed. surely just on account of the abundant breakfast? Can't think of any other reasons for sluggishness on the day after the night-and -day-and-night before...]. Gary Glitter gave a historical\, photographic t our for the Walkers around Torr Abbey and gardens\, while the FRBs were se en heading towards Cockington. The only hurdle was the swan at the garden lake\, which was waiting to attack any stragglers. We know the hash route exactly\, as a local resident posted on the Facebook group\, ‘Spotted To rquay’\, re. the vast amount of flour found by trees that her dog had ea ten and the poor thing had now been arrested for sniffing white substances . It was suggested online the hash next use small flags instead and the la st person can pick them up [Ed. ...👀] . All suggestions for designs of said flags to be sent to the committee.\n\nBig thank you to all the organi sers\, entertainers\, hares and hashers for such a fantastic Hash Bash\nwe ekend [Ed. Hear\, hear!]\n\nON ON to CORNWOOD\n\nDULUX\n\nSo many photos.. . As per last week's email\, and in case you missed them\, you'll find a f ew (thousand) more from the Post-Xmas Weekend shenanigans at the following Facebook albums:\n• Friday Night Frolics\n• Saturday Hash 1511\n• P ost-Xmas Gala weekend Saturday Night &\;\nAwards\n• Hare of the Dog H ash 1512\n________________________________________\n\n🌟 👣 🌟\nHash 1513 - CORNWOOD\nWords by UNDERCOVERS\n\nI really thought I had got away with it. [Ed. Oh\, Undercovers...still?] Turns out you have to be missing longer than Lord Lucan to avoid being collared for the Words.\n\nCircle Up was delayed by a couple of minutes while we were coaxed out of a perfectl y dry pub into a perfectly wet car park. Our GM\, sheltering under a nice big umbrella\, was in no hurry to send us off and eventually Gaffer gave u s his fulsome briefing – the Long is further than the Short\, um… it ’s a bit technical in places. On cue\, the rain came down in a deluge of biblical proportions...and we were off.\n\nThe wet road soon ran out and almost the entire hash was spent knee-deep in some of Cornwood’s finest bogs\, briefly interspersed with hacking through brambles\, fording rivers and navigating dense woods. [Ed. excellent value hashing] That last bit w as completed more subtly by some than others. Rizzo favoured the direct ap proach\, and any trees in her way were felled with a mighty shove in an im pressive display of strength and a complete lack of co-ordination.\n\nWith the going this soft\, there were inevitably some fallers. Shaggy obviousl y\, Overshot spectacularly and Pugsley similarly. Olive\, stuck in a bog\, thought she was drowning. Gaffer\, consulting his health and safety manua l\, told her she was not - whereupon she toppled face first into the wette st part she could find - predictably. [Ed. don't contradict Olive 😆😘 ]\n\nImelda’s head torch fail brought Pugsley to the rescue with a welco me offer of assistance – no hasher left behind being a code of honour we all like to follow – all except Pugsley\, who abandoned Imelda within 1 00 metres.\n\nAt one stage\, sunk knee-deep in a particularly moist sectio n of Cornwood\, Rizzo exclaimed “this is hideous!”. Gaffer\, standing strategically on the only dry bit for several miles\, grinned from ear to ear. This was precisely the endorsement that made all the hard work laying the trail worthwhile. [Ed. music to his Cinnamon ears...]\n\nInevitably\, we reached a stage where Gaffer’s two bags of flour ran out. Faced with yet another river crossing and unmarked jungle trails\, unnamed Laura’s local knowledge led back to the road - and a soggy jog on to the pub.\n\n Back in the dry and various conversations were overheard: Overshot to Shag gy comparing Strava results “the map makes it look quite a linear trail ” translated from architect-speak: “blimey\, that was wet.” Then Sha ggy\, channelling her full Richard Dreyfuss\, in a comparison of bramble c uts with other similarly scarred athletes [Ed. not\, of course\, to be con fused with James Dreyfuss. As I did. And was\, er\, confused...!]. A broma nce clearly evident as Re-Entry mentioned how much he enjoyed running with Muckspreader\, one of the few hashers [Ed. "almost" - you omitted Re-Entr y's critical qualifier\, which narrowly averted the slip of making this an actual compliment 😘] able to keep up with him.\n\nKnow Nuts made quite an entrance\, wearing plastic bags on his feet. Being the unconventional chap he is\, he had the recyclable food bag on his left foot when traditio n dictates it must be worn on the right. I’m sure he knew what he was do ing. [...👀]\n\nNice Buns (putting in a surprise appearance\, given the appalling weather) entertained us as RA\, and we sweetly serenaded LowT'ar se on the occasion of her Birthday. Nokkers was presented with “the fast est walker" T-shirt.\n\nDown Downs were awarded to:\n• Yeuk and Gaffer – laying an excellent trail\n• LowT'arse – Birthday\n• Nokkers – T-shirt\n• Laura – local knowledge and leadership\n• Know Nuts – stylish footwear\n\nPS. Here's a fun fact [Ed. Climatic conditions didn't much lend themselves to extraneous fripperies at Circle Up last week...]. Apparently the surname "Moise" is well know in St Lucia. The family own a clothing store called "Moise Underwear". Any of you SH4 hashers fancy bein g catalogue models? [Ed. cheap...😆]\n\nOn on to MARLDON. Apparently it is in the South Hams\, even though the map shows it's only just in Devon.\ n\nPhoto credit: Whisperer\n👣\n\n🏃 📸 🍻 You can enjoy more a fe w more pics from the unmitigatedly soggy Cornwood Hash on 19th February 20 25 by checking out Hash Flash's purpose-built photo album on the SH4 Faceb ook page 📸 🏃🍻\n\n👣\n\nNext SH4 Hash 🐷👣:\n\nHASH 1514 - M ARLDON\, 26th February 2025\n\nCIRCLE UP 7.25pm\nYe Old Smokey House\nVica rage Road\nMarldon\nPaignton\nTQ3 1NN\nWhat3Words: smiled.pulled.fame\n\nO N DOWN:\nInside Ye Old Smokey House\n\nHare: Squashed Balls\n\nParking: Pl ease park at the far end of the large carpark.\n\nMenu: Main Menu\n\nFor f urther info\, including food ordering details\, please see the Hash 1514 e vent page on the SH4 Facebook Group.\n\nAdd your photos of how the day wen t down (Weds 26h February\, 2025) to the Hash 1514 photo album on SH4's Fa cebook page \, courtesy: Rubbery.\n\n📝 If you are the lucky Scribe at M arldon on 26th February\, please submit your edition of The Words to thewo rds@sh4.org.uk by Sunday evening (2nd March\, 2025) - TVM! 📝\n👣\n\n_ _______________________________________\n\nSH4 'EALTH &\; SAFETY\n\nPle ase 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 ca ll 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 log you out o n trail using the new-fangled checking-out/checking-in app (developed by o ur very own digital-wizard\, Whisperer).\n\nDon't forget to also check bac k 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 vehicl e in your fleet! 😊\n\nSee a member of the committee at the next meet fo r yours.\n\n👣\n\n CATEGORIES:Hash Trails LOCATION:Victoria Hotel BellGrave Road\, Torquay\, TQ2 5HL GEO:50.465983;-3.538493 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=BellGrave Road\, Torquay\, TQ2 5HL\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Victoria Hotel:geo:50. 465983,-3.538493 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