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HASH 1541 – EAST ALLINGTON

We circled up outside the pub to hear a litany of info from Doggy Style, then eventually we set off, on an overcast but warm evening.

We hit a drink stop very early on trail [Ed. speak for yourself, Lazy Git! I think the other routes to this very welcome pit-stop were rather longer…] with a variety of refreshments of a dubious nature – one looked like antifreeze! [Ed. Mmmm: unidentified super-strength alcohol: a delicious hash staple!]

Suitably confused, we went forth: I was soon confronted with a steep downhill, which I thought would guarantee a following steep uphill to follow, but our kind hare, Nice Buns, assured me that it would be almost flat, apart from a little climb up to the pub at the finish. Naively, I went on with this encouragement. [Ed. Oh, LG – how long have you been hashing?] Note to self: trust your own judgement in future!

There was some confusion in the Plympton contingent about the meaning of three dots: does it mean go back, or go on? They didn’t know if they were coming or going! [Ed. a(n arguably unintended) masterstroke that trapped the FRs of the FRBs in an impossible loop in the deep, dark wood for a moment or two…]

Meanwhile, Olive found herself in a field of cows. Frightened to death, she sped up to a record-breaking 6mph, still being chased by the cows, but Undercovers was on hand and “took her up the wrong way” [Ed. really, LG – this is a family publication!]. Let’s hope that it wasn’t a visit to the Oxo Tower! In another field, Lactaster was stung by a huge angry hornet, stirred up kindly by WGAS. [Ed. ouch. With a capital ‘Oh!’]

Gary and Nokkers decided to avoid the bridge and followed a road to nowhere, but Know Nuts bravely waded on through [Ed. There is no ‘avoid’ in hashing, only ‘engage!’].  Whisperer was seen running strongly up a steep hill [Ed. compelled by the alluring scent of Stella on the night air, it was posited by some], but it turns out by the time he got back to the pub in the near dark his headtorch was all of one candlepower; apparently it had not been charged since last used in March. Also arriving at the pub, Rizzo couldn’t find the car key which had been placed on the wheel. She searched for ages before realising that she was at the wrong car – early onset of dementia?

The general opinion was that the trail was much longer than advised, and followed an interesting route as seen on Strava – apparently laid by an all-female hare group! Perhaps explains the shape… [Ed. the most well-hung hash of the year.]

Gaffer was our esteemed RA. We sang happy birthday to Fluffy Dice and Blown Off.

Down downs went to the hares:

• Rizzo
• Nice Buns
• Pimples
• And all their girls Va Va Voom, Bush Spanker, Pull the Udder, etc
• Blown Off for his birthday [Ed. Fluffy, equipped with prior warning of the traditional SH4 birthday song feat. Overshot, and with more delicate Plympton eardrums, had already made his escape.]

On On to ERMINGTON 

Photo credit: Squashed Balls

🏃 📸 🍻 You can’t enjoy any more pictures from the bale-strewn, gradient-generous East Allington hash on 20th August 2025 by checking out Hash Flash’s purpose-built photo album on the SH4 Facebook page, so I wouldn’t bother… (I think hashers were concentrating so hard on discerning which way was up in the gathering gloom, that they had very little chance of locating a camera to capture proceedings [and all the photos may have looked rather similar…].) 📸 🏃🍻

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Next SH4 Hash 🐷👣: 

HASH 1542 –  27th August, 2025

CIRCLE UP 7.25pm
Circle Up:
Tallet Meadow Farm (chez Pinky and Pi)
Off Chapel Street
Ermington
PL21 9NG
What3words: https://what3words.com/framework.chief.career

ON DOWN:
The Crooked Spire
The Square
Ermington
PL21 9LP
What3words: https://what3words.com/shredder.inflame.regress

Hares: Pinky and Pi

For further info, please see the Hash 1542 event page on the SH4 Facebook Group.

Add your photos of how the evening went down (on Weds 27th August, 2025) to the Hash 1542 photo album on SH4’s Facebook page .

📝 If you are the lucky Scribe at ERMINGTON on 27th August, please submit your edition of The Words to thewords@sh4.org.uk by Sunday evening (31st August, 2025) – TVM! 📝

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SH4 ‘EALTH & SAFETY

Please make a note of the 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 / Doggy Style 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 once 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 hash meet to get yours.

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