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Ed. Apologies to Good Head for being slow to send out her words this week (owing to a highly inconvenient need to be at work), and for a very light-touch approach to the editing/editorial mutterings – although appreciate this may come as a blessed relief to some, if not all! Sit yourself cross-legged on the carpet with a beaker of juice and a Malted Milk for this week’s nursery-rhyme-infused edition!

HASH 1548 – BUCKFASTLEIGH

As remembered by Good Head.

As we circled up under the stunning Harvest moon, I’m sure I saw for a moment, a cow jumping over it. No – alas – just Doggy Style [Ed. ouch!] calling for some order and fun facts about brains, alongside Overshot interjecting with further brain-related info.

Muckspreader was given his 100th t-shirt at the start due to his running away as fast as he can, you can’t catch him at the end of hash…perhaps like the Gingerbread Man?

Anyway, on with the hash: Out onto the main road, which felt quite dangerous: Piltdown Man and Georgy P’Orgy assured us that it was quite safe, enough even if she might have kissed the girls and made them cry. But, as we rounded the bend, the hill that confronted us was undoubtably one of his Grand Old Duke of York’s, as his 10,000 men most certainly walked up most of it – even those FRBs were not unscuppered [Ed. wanton double-negative-ery; I like it] by such a hill.

Shaggy and dog Meg made a good impression of Jack and Jill coming down the hill, just with some gasps of shock as to how poor Meg did not break her crown – and there was luckily no tumbling after!

Barbarella kindly took on the role of mopping up the Longs, dutifully taking the map, but as with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, she really did wonder where she was – and everyone else with it – coming back to the pub a long time after everyone else was already back and refuelling at the bar.

And then there was Overshot, who could be heard in the pub re-telling his tale of Pussy cat, Pussy cat where have you been – he was certain there was a ‘cuddle’ of kittens on his many wrong turns this evening.

Boaty assured us that he acted as Mary tonight, as everywhere that Boaty went his little lamb, Harry, was sure to go – even if it was the slowest trail of his life!!

1,2,3,4,5, once I joined a hashing club, 6,7,8,9,10 and on and on and on it went…

Jyde was gifted his 800 th Hash T-shirt and Come2Nite her 200 th – a round of applause to them both for such totals.

Miss Filth had man who was sick sick, which meant she had to cut her run to a quick quick quick [one]. Lazy Git just wanted a nice beer beer beer and said there was nothing to see here here here. GHR might as well have been singing ‘Ring a Ring a Roses’ with a name like that [Ed. neatly done, Good Head!], but he gave the highlights of the night, before falling into his car and away home.  Awards with a little teapot, short and stout, [Ed. sorry, you’ve lost me now…unless I have developed the very niche affliction of crockery blindness] Down Downs to:

Piltdown Man and Georgy P’Orgy – trail setting
Jyde and Come2Nite – for excessive running

Shaggy and Meg [Ed. presumably a bowl of water, at best – no need to alert the RSPCA!] – for surviving in one piece
Filth and Lazy Git – for exiting early
Harry – just for being the newcomer

ON ON to the SH4 AGPU at SOUTH BRENT!

Photo credit: Beefy

🏃 📸 🍻 You can enjoy a few more photos from the hill-tactic Buckfastleigh hash on 8th October 2025 by checking out Hash Flash’s purpose-built photo album on the SH4 Facebook page 📸 🏃🍻

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Next SH4 Hash 🐷👣: 

🍻🐷👣🌟 SH4 AGPU 🌟👣🐷🍻

 HASH 1549 –  15th October, 2025 

SOUTH BRENT

CIRCLE UP 7.25pm
Station Car Park
South Brent
TQ10 9BG
What3words: ///alike.poem.examples

ON DOWN:
The Station House
Station Road
South Brent
TQ10 9BE
What3Words: ///departure.rungs.renders
Hare: BARBARELLA

🌟 AGPU and Awards Evening! 🌟

Slap-up meal provided free of charge for SH4 members (£9.00 to non-members), prepared by the lovely folk at The Station House – choice of:

• Yorkshires with ragu, sausages and mini roasties
• Witch’s casserole of Autumn veg, thick sauce with a cheese scone (vegetarian)

The Awards evening will begin as soon as everyone is back in from the hash and seated with their meal. Please come along and support your fellow hashers in appointing a new committee and celebrating SH4!

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For further info, please see the Hash 1549 event page on the SH4 Facebook Group.

Add your photos of how the evening went down (on Weds 15th October, 2025) to the Hash 1549 photo album on SH4’s Facebook page.

📝 If you are the lucky Scribe at SOUTH BRENT on 15th October, please submit your edition of The Words to thewords@sh4.org.uk by Sunday evening (19th October, 2025) – TVM! 📝

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UPCOMNG SH4 EVENTS

⛄🌟🎅🏻🌟🎄 NOW SOLD OUT!!! 🎄🌟🎅🏻🌟⛄

We can’t wait to see you all at the Start Bay Centre, Slapton on Saturday 29th November (and Friday 28th November, if you’ve signed up for the bonus extra FREE night!) for what promises to be a spectacular edition of the beloved SH4 Pre-Christmas Hash Bash. Don’t forget your tinsel (or other, more sustainable festive adornments)!
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If you’ve booked to attend this super-value weekend of entertainment, please pay the full amount (£50) to the SH4 account asap to secure your place (account details below and also on the poster):

Account name: SH4
A/c no. 00263482     Sort code: 30-94-72

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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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