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:590@sh4.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251105T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251105T230000 DTSTAMP:20251112T170339Z URL:https://www.sh4.org.uk/events/hash-1552-fireworks/ SUMMARY:South Hams H4 Hash 1552 - Fireworks - Wakeham Farm DESCRIPTION:From the hare:\nParking will be tight along the roads so please car-share if possible. Fireworks kick off at 8.30 prompt and the bar will have enough for one or two drinks each – bring your own drinks if you w ould like more. We will then proceed to The Village Inn for Nice Tackle’ s RA-ing. Looking forward to seeing you all X\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Words according to BARBARELLA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n🌟 👣  🌟\n[Ed. This week' s Words are brought to you with extra special gratitude from the Editor\, who was blissfully oblivious to having been nominated (on account of sca ntiest running attire of the evening\, apparently...)\, until Barbarella g raciously offered to be Mercy Scribe (remembering that I had bored folk on ly quite recently in ghostwriting for GHR...)] \nHASH 1552 - SOUTH MILTO N FIREWORKS HASH\nThe view from the rear according\, to Barbarella:\n\nIt was a balmy\, almost dry November evening\, when a large crowd of hashers congregated outside Olive’s place for a stress-busting hash in the Sout h Hams.\n\nBlown Off swiftly despatched us\, after Olive’s promise of a 2 -mile Walk\, 4.5-mile Short or under 5-mile long trail. She also promise d to be ‘everywhere where we might go wrong’ [And the odd place where we hadn't gone wrong\, but Olive came very close to engineering a catastr ophic diversion 😆😘] . Mmmmm…\n\nLowt'arse and I started at the fr ont (!)\, after a tip-off from Olive meant we avoided the loop around the church. However\, the pack soon caught up with us and sped past as we poli tely (we’re like that) stood aside to avoid being trampled on the approa ch to the first stile.\n\nNow in our usual place at the back\, we ran happ ily through the country-side seeing not a soul. Was that a call of ‘On o n’ in the distance? No\, it was an owl hooting. Was that the flash of th e hare’s torch showing us the way? No\, it was the eyes of sheep glintin g in our torch light.\n\nIt was a slow news day. Apparently\, there were l ovely views\; the promised Beaver Moon stayed hidden behind the clouds\, a nd even Shaggy disappointed by not falling over! [Ed. It's OK - I'm sure I 'm due some sort of spectacular injury quite soon (and remember\, folks: I fall over\, so you don't have to!)]. However\, unbeknown to all those w ho had dashed on ahead\, there was news! Lowt'arse sustained an injury so serious she had to skip the pub and go home for tlc [Ed. Blimey - must've been near-fatal!]  and was still complaining about it the following morn ing! Ahh. [Ed. Hope you're fully recovered by now\, Lowt'arse 🤕]\n\nMi ndful that the fireworks were to start at 8.40pm\, Lowt'arse and I unchar acteristically took the Short route at 8.30pm\, and we were just running t hrough a cabbage field when\, Whoosh! There was a spectacular starburst ab ove our heads\, followed by other loud and colourful explosions. We presse d on through a gate and onto a lane full of smoke and the smell of gunpowd er\, ash falling all around us\; it felt like the Battle of the Somme [Ed . Indeed - a truly immersive fireworks experience!]. We must be getting cl ose we thought\, but no\, up a hill and around a corner we encountered...a dark figure in the lane who directed us through a gate to… a bar with m ulled wine – which I have to say was delicious [Ed. and absolutely nothi ng at all troubling about accepting the invitation of a sudden shadowy fi gure luring you off the beaten track and into an unlit garden to ply you with free alcohol\, is there...?]\n\nWe were in time to enjoy the rest of the magnificent display accompanied by ‘Music for the Hash Fireworks’ (Handel must have been spinning in his grave) [Ed. it truly was the most magnificent firework display\, from a superiorly talented team - and I th ought the showers of smouldering ash and 90's rave classics set the whole thing off rather beautifully 😆] \n\nThanks were given to Ian and Ellio t for the fireworks\, then it was on back to the cars and a few of us made it to The Village Inn where the only item of note from Nice Tackle was to do with socks! A pink pair at the end of Olive’s drive waiting to be cl aimed\, another mysteriously wrapped around NT's accelerator and a blue pa ir which somehow got lost in Boaty’s car [Ed. looks as thought the recen t (and overt) dogging theme may have taken a more subtle turn this week.. .🕵️‍♀️].\n\nDown Downs were awarded to:\n\n Olive and Filth: H ares\n Ready Mix: Welcome Back!\n Nice Buns: 21 again\n Muckspreader: s hortcutting?\n Barbarella: for (almost) making it to the fireworks in tim e.\n\nON ON to Lower Kernborough Farm\, KERNBOROUGH!\n\n\nPhoto credit: Sh aggy\n\n🏃 📸 🍻 Unfortunately\, it seems everyone was so transfix ed by the pyrotechnic-stylings of the Upton Pyrotechnicians\, that they si ngularly failed to capture any of the incredible light display for posteri ty - ergo\, there are (at time of editing...) no further photos to enjoy f rom the utterly spectacular\, spark-raining South Milton Fireworks hash on 5th November 2025 in the lovingly-crafted  Hash 1552 photo album o n the SH4 Facebook page. (If anyone has any photos of the evening they're happy to share\, please do upload them to the online photo album - TVM!)  📸 🏃🍻\n\n\n\n\n\n\n👣\n\nNext SH4 Hash 🐷👣: \n\n HASH 1553 -  12th November\, 2025 \n\nKERNBOROUGH \nCIRCLE UP 7.25pm\nLower Kernborough Farm\, TQ7 2LL\nWhat3words: Https://what3words.com/declines. comedy.carver\n\nON DOWN:\nThe Bear &\; Blacksmith\, Chillington\, TQ7 2LD\nWhat3Words: Https://what3words.com/flop.carrots.fuss\nHare: SEX WAX\ n\n👣\nFor more info\, please see the Hash 1553 event page on the S H4 Facebook Group.\nAdd your photos of how the evening went down (on Weds 12th November\, 2025) to the Hash 1553 photo album on SH4's Facebook page.\n\n📝 If you are the lucky Scribe at KERNBOROUGH on 12th November \, please submit your edition of The Words to thewords@sh4.org.uk by Sun day evening (16th November\, 2025) - TVM! 📝\n👣\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUPCOMN G SH4 EVENTS\n\n⛄🌟🎅🏻🌟🎄🌟🎅🏻🌟⛄\n \nWe can't w ait to see you all at the Start Bay Centre\, Slapton on Saturday 29th Nove mber (and Friday 28th November\, if you've signed up for the bonus extra F REE night!) for what promises to be a spectacular edition of the beloved S H4 Pre-Christmas Hash Bash. Don't forget your tinsel (or other\, more sust ainable festive adornments)!\n🌟\nIf 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 t he poster):\n \nAccount name: SH4\nA/c no. 00263482     Sort code: 30-9 4-72\n \n🌟\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSH4 'EALTH &\; SAFETY\n \nPlease make a n ote of the SH4 hash phone number and add it to your phone:\n \n🌟 SH4 hash phone number: 07922 103701 🌟\n \n \nUse this number to call for assistance if you come 'unstuck' out on the trail\, or need to get a mes sage to 'base camp' (On Down) during the run.\n \n👣\n \n  Don't forg et to see Rusty Bottom before the hash to log you out on trail using th e new-fangled checking-out/checking-in app (developed by our very own d igital-wizard\, Whisperer).\n \nDon't forget to also check back in with Rusty once you're safely back. \n\n👣\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSH4 MercHASHdise \n  \n\nShow your love for SH4 and wear your membership proudly with a bespo ke SH4 car sticker!\n \;\n \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  \n\nSee a member of the committee at the next hash meet to get yours.\n \ n👣\n_____________________\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n - From the hare:\ nParking will be tight along the roads so please car-share if possible. Fi reworks kick off at 8.30 prompt and the bar will have enough for one or tw o drinks each – bring your own drinks if you would like more. We will th en proceed to The Village Inn for Nice Tackle’s RA-ing. Looking forward to seeing you all X\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Word s according to BARBARELLA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\ n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n🌟 👣  🌟\n[Ed. This week's Words are brought to you with extra special gratitude from the Editor\, who was blissfully oblivio us to having been nominated (on account of scantiest running attire of t he evening\, apparently...)\, until Barbarella graciously offered to be Me rcy Scribe (remembering that I had bored folk only quite recently in ghost writing for GHR...)] \nHASH 1552 - SOUTH MILTON FIREWORKS HASH\nThe vie w from the rear according\, to Barbarella:\n\nIt was a balmy\, almost dry November evening\, when a large crowd of hashers congregated outside Olive ’s place for a stress-busting hash in the South Hams.\n\nBlown Off swift ly despatched us\, after Olive’s promise of a 2 -mile Walk\, 4.5-mile Sh ort or under 5-mile long trail. She also promised to be ‘everywhere wher e we might go wrong’ [And the odd place where we hadn't gone wrong\, bu t Olive came very close to engineering a catastrophic diversion 😆😘]  . Mmmmm…\n\nLowt'arse and I started at the front (!)\, after a tip-off from Olive meant we avoided the loop around the church. However\, the pac k soon caught up with us and sped past as we politely (we’re like that) stood aside to avoid being trampled on the approach to the first stile.\n\ nNow in our usual place at the back\, we ran happily through the country-s ide seeing not a soul. Was that a call of ‘On on’ in the distance? No\ , it was an owl hooting. Was that the flash of the hare’s torch showing us the way? No\, it was the eyes of sheep glinting in our torch light.\n\n It was a slow news day. Apparently\, there were lovely views\; the promise d Beaver Moon stayed hidden behind the clouds\, and even Shaggy disappoint ed by not falling over! [Ed. It's OK - I'm sure I'm due some sort of spect acular injury quite soon (and remember\, folks: I fall over\, so you don' t have to!)]. However\, unbeknown to all those who had dashed on ahead\, there was news! Lowt'arse sustained an injury so serious she had to skip t he pub and go home for tlc [Ed. Blimey - must've been near-fatal!]  and was still complaining about it the following morning! Ahh. [Ed. Hope you'r e fully recovered by now\, Lowt'arse 🤕]\n\nMindful that the fireworks were to start at 8.40pm\, Lowt'arse and I uncharacteristically took the S hort route at 8.30pm\, and we were just running through a cabbage field wh en\, Whoosh! There was a spectacular starburst above our heads\, followed by other loud and colourful explosions. We pressed on through a gate and o nto a lane full of smoke and the smell of gunpowder\, ash falling all arou nd us\; it felt like the Battle of the Somme [Ed. Indeed - a truly immers ive fireworks experience!]. We must be getting close we thought\, but no\, up a hill and around a corner we encountered...a dark figure in the lane who directed us through a gate to… a bar with mulled wine – which I ha ve to say was delicious [Ed. and absolutely nothing at all troubling abou t accepting the invitation of a sudden shadowy figure luring you off the b eaten track and into an unlit garden to ply you with free alcohol\, is th ere...?]\n\nWe were in time to enjoy the rest of the magnificent display accompanied by ‘Music for the Hash Fireworks’ (Handel must have been s pinning in his grave) [Ed. it truly was the most magnificent firework dis play\, from a superiorly talented team - and I thought the showers of smou ldering ash and 90's rave classics set the whole thing off rather beautifu lly 😆] \n\nThanks were given to Ian and Elliot for the fireworks\, the n it was on back to the cars and a few of us made it to The Village Inn wh ere the only item of note from Nice Tackle was to do with socks! A pink pa ir at the end of Olive’s drive waiting to be claimed\, another mysteriou sly wrapped around NT's accelerator and a blue pair which somehow got lost in Boaty’s car [Ed. looks as thought the recent (and overt) dogging the me may have taken a more subtle turn this week...🕵️‍♀️].\n\nDo wn Downs were awarded to:\n\n Olive and Filth: Hares\n Ready Mix: Welcom e Back!\n Nice Buns: 21 again\n Muckspreader: shortcutting?\n Barbarell a: for (almost) making it to the fireworks in time.\n\nON ON to Lower Kern borough Farm\, KERNBOROUGH!\n\n\nPhoto credit: Shaggy\n\n🏃 📸 🍻 Unfortunately\, it seems everyone was so transfixed by the pyrotechnic-sty lings of the Upton Pyrotechnicians\, that they singularly failed to captur e any of the incredible light display for posterity - ergo\, there are (at time of editing...) no further photos to enjoy from the utterly spectac ular\, spark-raining South Milton Fireworks hash on 5th November 2025 in the lovingly-crafted  Hash 1552 photo album on the SH4 Facebook page. (If anyone has any photos of the evening they're happy to share\, please d o upload them to the online photo album - TVM!) 📸 🏃🍻\n\n\n\n\n\n \n👣\n\nNext SH4 Hash 🐷👣: \n\n HASH 1553 -  12th November\, 2025 \n\nKERNBOROUGH \nCIRCLE UP 7.25pm\nLower Kernborough Farm\, TQ7 2 LL\nWhat3words: Https://what3words.com/declines.comedy.carver\n\nON DOWN: \nThe Bear &\; Blacksmith\, Chillington\, TQ7 2LD\nWhat3Words: Https:/ /what3words.com/flop.carrots.fuss\nHare: SEX WAX\n\n👣\nFor more info\, please see the Hash 1553 event page on the SH4 Facebook Group.\nAdd y our photos of how the evening went down (on Weds 12th November\, 2025)  to the Hash 1553 photo album on SH4's Facebook page.\n\n📝 If you are the lucky Scribe at KERNBOROUGH on 12th November\, please submit your edi tion of The Words to thewords@sh4.org.uk by Sunday evening (16th Novemb er\, 2025) - TVM! 📝\n👣\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUPCOMNG SH4 EVENTS\n\n⛄🌟 🎅🏻🌟🎄🌟🎅🏻🌟⛄\n \nWe can't wait to see you all at t he Start Bay Centre\, Slapton on Saturday 29th November (and Friday 28th N ovember\, if you've signed up for the bonus extra FREE night!) for what pr omises to be a spectacular edition of the beloved SH4 Pre-Christmas Hash B ash. Don't forget your tinsel (or other\, more sustainable festive adornme nts)!\n🌟\nIf you've booked to attend this super-value weekend of entert ainment\, please pay the full amount (£50) to the SH4 account asap to sec ure your place (account details below and also on the poster):\n \nAccoun t name: SH4\nA/c 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 SH4 hash pho ne number and add it to your phone:\n \n🌟 SH4 hash phone number: 0792 2 103701 🌟\n \n \nUse this number to call for assistance if you com e '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  before the hash to log you out on trail using the new-fangled checkin g-out/checking-in app (developed by our very own digital-wizard\, Whispe rer).\n \nDon't forget to also check back in with Rusty once you're safel y back. \n\n👣\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSH4 MercHASHdise \n \n\nShow your love fo r SH4 and wear your membership proudly with a bespoke SH4 car sticker!\n&n bsp\;\n \n\nAvailable exclusively to SH4 members (and\, to be fair\, any one else who wants one...) for the bargain sum of £0.50 ea.\, you can aff ord one for every vehicle in your fleet! 😊\n \n\nSee a member of the committee at the next hash meet to get yours.\n \n👣\n_________________ ____\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n CATEGORIES:Hash Trails LOCATION:Wakeham Farm Wakeham Farmhouse\, \, South Milton\, TQ7 3JQ GEO:50.271909;-3.826585 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Wakeham Farmhouse\, \, Sout h Milton\, TQ7 3JQ\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Wakeham Far m:geo:50.271909,-3.826585 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR