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SUMMARY:South Hams H4 Malborough Camping Weekend - June 2019 - Alston Farm 
 Campsite
DESCRIPTION:Alston Farm Campsite\n\nArrive Friday night\, leave Sunday afte
 rnoon.\n\nFriday Night - Drinks on site or at the pub\nSaturday Hash -  E
 xtra £5 donation to the Red Dress Run (raising money for Devon Air Ambula
 nce)\nSaturday Night - Possibility of a band\nSunday Morning - Hare of the
  Dog Hash\nSunday Alfresco drinking\, games\, lazing about.\n\nSeparate Ca
 mping field for SH4\nAdults - £8 per Night\n10-16 - £1 per Night\nUnder 
 10s - Free!\n\nBring plenty of 20ps for the showers!\n\nWords from the Sol
 stice hash weekend\n\nI usually like to find a theme when I do my scribing
 \, and the temptation was to choose something like ‘the weather’\; the
 n I could have written about That’s Crap’s hot and steamy outfit for S
 aturday’s red dress run\, the sunshine smile of Low-t-arse\,  who\, for
  once not held back by Barbarella flew round the hash and was practically 
 a front runner\, or maybe the warmth of Twisted Sister’s generous offer 
 to lay the trail in the absence of one of the hares (of which more later).
  Or else perhaps I could have crafted something around ‘class’\; then 
 Filth\, Ging Gang and Miss Mouthfull would have got a mention for being to
 o posh to slum it in a tent and went and stayed in a house instead\, and s
 pent the night drinking Prosecco and eating smoked salmon. Rabid\, Hue\, N
 o Thatch\, Damp Patch\, Vindaloo and I don’t know who else who were also
  too posh to eat BBQ food and went to the pub instead. There was some excu
 se about trying to impress some visitors from France\, but I don’t see h
 ow a portion of cheesy chips is any more gastronomically impressive than s
 ausages that have been chargrilled out of existence. British food versus F
 rench\; not exactly a level playing field is it...\n\nAnd if level playing
  fields was a theme\, it literally wasn’t one\, the campsite was more li
 ke a ski slope\, happily it was flattish at the upper and lower levels. Th
 e hash divided itself according to whether you wanted either to be connect
 ed to the mains or else avoid the bracing easterly winds blowing over the 
 campsite (or both) in which case you were at the lower\, and at the upper 
 levels were basically the riff-raff and cheapskates – but we did get a b
 it of a view of the Kingsbridge estuary. The bit inbetween was a large are
 a of sloping field\, on which neither tent nor van\, not even one with mas
 sive ramps\, could pitch and which became the childrens’ playing field\,
  and I use the term ‘children’ loosely\; smallness of stature was no i
 ndicator of childishness...\n\nA ‘red’ theme would just be too obvious
 \, and anyway some images from the red dress run are best erased from the 
 memory\, so the theme I have chosen for this weekend is... DRUGS. Yes\, I
 ’ve decided it’s all about the SH4 approach to life’s trials\, tribu
 lations\, triumphs and thrills\, all of which can be rolled into one hash 
 camping weekend. Are you ready? Here we go...\n\nAnti-depressants\n\nFalle
 n Woman was very depressed at missing out on the pubs of Salcombe due to t
 he lack of arrows pointing into them – I was quite surprised to discover
  that FW couldn’t find her way into a pub after all those years of pract
 ice\, but administered anti-depressant therapy to her at the drinks stop w
 hich I think helped. She drank it down quite fast anyway.\n\nPain relief\n
 \nWhisperer trialled Stella as a drug for relief of his back pain. Bee Fli
 cker (whose wig I thought was just fabulous darling) knelt over his prostr
 ate (even before he had downed his first bottle) form and kneaded his back
  to loosen it out\, but Whispers decided the Stella was more effective and
 \, utilising the ‘more is better’ principle\, kept on taking it until 
 he passed out.\n\nAt the drink stop Goolie and Pony Shafter\, no doubt fee
 ling the mellowing benefits of the previous four pub visits broke into son
 g\, mostly sea-shanties as far as I could tell\, but which left several of
  us wincing somewhat. I administered more pain relief\, mostly to myself.\
 n\nEndorphins\n\nWell\, running is the obvious way to get some of these re
 leased into your system\, but naturally there were hashers who chose other
  means: Overshot\, inspired by daughter Eliza chose backwards roly-poly-in
 g down the field as his method\, whilst Sniffer busied herself trying to i
 gnore his childish antics. Sushi appears to get his endorphin rush from sk
 impy underwear – now I don’t know for sure who actually wears it in hi
 s relationship\; Ah-So hotly denies it and I for one believe her but anywa
 y it’s one of them and he looks very happy about it. It takes all sorts.
  Crackerjack declared it was the second worst day of his life\, I know not
  why\, but think he must have ingested some...\n\nSteroids\n\nThe kids –
  SURELY they were on something – how can such little people have so much
  energy?? They did a 7-mile run in the day\, then another 8-10 miles in th
 e evening racing around chasing each other. Their poor parents\, no wonder
  they look exhausted all the time –that was me once\, but long enough ag
 o now that happily amnesia has set in. I don’t think there’s a drug fo
 r that and if there was\, I wouldn’t take it anyway when it comes to rec
 alling the child-rearing years\, I prefer the more psychotropic ones where
  it’s either all a blur\, or else some hazy fondness of halcyon pre-refe
 rendum days when there were flowers and smiley happy people everywhere and
  everything in the garden was lovely... Sorry\, I drifted off there. Come 
 2nite might benefit from memory-enhancement medication though\, having con
 verted to vegetarianism recently\, it appears faced with a pork pie that s
 he completely forgot and tucked in before remembering. It’s the thought 
 that counts\, unless you’re a pig of course\, or indeed a chicken\, shee
 p or a cow and possibly a fish...\n\nLubricants\n\nEeeuw\, this could get 
 messy and I’m going to gloss over the details to save any parents having
  to explain to their curious children why Tyred Bunny wanted to borrow som
 e butter when it wasn’t for a bun but instead to relieve his chafing. Le
 ast said\, soonest mended\, methinks.\n\nAnaesthetic\n\nWas greatly needed
  by those campers who braved the wintery chills of the Friday night\; the 
 families of Nice Buns and Rizzo amongst them who found the conditions less
  than clement for a mid-summer’s eve. Saturday night seemed to go better
  for them\, and they seemed a good deal more cheerful come Sunday morning 
 so we can assume that whatever it was they took\, it worked.\n\nX-ray cont
 rast agents (‘x-ray dye’ for the non-radiographers\, nurses\, medics a
 nd possibly vets)\n\nWell\, I couldn’t finish writing these words withou
 t mentioning dear Know Nuts\, whose gallant efforts to lay the trail were 
 thwarted by his heart which decided to have a hissy fit before the weekend
  was even under way. Although he will be a walking medicine cabinet for a 
 while\, the drug I have chosen is the one which will reveal on angiogram w
 hich of his coronary arteries were all gummed up\, but which by the time y
 ou read these Words will be suitably de-coked and raring to go again. Get 
 well soon Know Nuts\, and good luck to Nutcracker who will be on nursing d
 uties at home as well as at work.\n\nYou will notice that with the excepti
 on of only one or two of the above\, similar effects could have been achie
 ved through the use of one simple cure-all that doesn’t even need a doct
 or’s prescription – ALCOHOL. And indeed\, so it was that no-one actual
 ly TOOK any of the aforementioned drugs\, but we all did take an awful lot
  of that one. Thanks for a grand weekend to organiser-in-chief Goolie\, ha
 res Nutcracker\, Twisted Sister and Overshot and to willing helpers for se
 tting up gazebo\, fire-pit etc. On-on to the next one. - Alston Farm Camps
 ite\n\nArrive Friday night\, leave Sunday afternoon.\n\nFriday Night - Dri
 nks on site or at the pub\nSaturday Hash -  Extra £5 donation to the Red
  Dress Run (raising money for Devon Air Ambulance)\nSaturday Night - Possi
 bility of a band\nSunday Morning - Hare of the Dog Hash\nSunday Alfresco d
 rinking\, games\, lazing about.\n\nSeparate Camping field for SH4\nAdults 
 - £8 per Night\n10-16 - £1 per Night\nUnder 10s - Free!\n\nBring plenty 
 of 20ps for the showers!\n\nWords from the Solstice hash weekend\n\nI usua
 lly like to find a theme when I do my scribing\, and the temptation was to
  choose something like ‘the weather’\; then I could have written about
  That’s Crap’s hot and steamy outfit for Saturday’s red dress run\, 
 the sunshine smile of Low-t-arse\,  who\, for once not held back by Barba
 rella flew round the hash and was practically a front runner\, or maybe th
 e warmth of Twisted Sister’s generous offer to lay the trail in the abse
 nce of one of the hares (of which more later). Or else perhaps I could hav
 e crafted something around ‘class’\; then Filth\, Ging Gang and Miss M
 outhfull would have got a mention for being too posh to slum it in a tent 
 and went and stayed in a house instead\, and spent the night drinking Pros
 ecco and eating smoked salmon. Rabid\, Hue\, No Thatch\, Damp Patch\, Vind
 aloo and I don’t know who else who were also too posh to eat BBQ food an
 d went to the pub instead. There was some excuse about trying to impress s
 ome visitors from France\, but I don’t see how a portion of cheesy chips
  is any more gastronomically impressive than sausages that have been charg
 rilled out of existence. British food versus French\; not exactly a level 
 playing field is it...\n\nAnd if level playing fields was a theme\, it lit
 erally wasn’t one\, the campsite was more like a ski slope\, happily it 
 was flattish at the upper and lower levels. The hash divided itself accord
 ing to whether you wanted either to be connected to the mains or else avoi
 d the bracing easterly winds blowing over the campsite (or both) in which 
 case you were at the lower\, and at the upper levels were basically the ri
 ff-raff and cheapskates – but we did get a bit of a view of the Kingsbri
 dge estuary. The bit inbetween was a large area of sloping field\, on whic
 h neither tent nor van\, not even one with massive ramps\, could pitch and
  which became the childrens’ playing field\, and I use the term ‘child
 ren’ loosely\; smallness of stature was no indicator of childishness...\
 n\nA ‘red’ theme would just be too obvious\, and anyway some images fr
 om the red dress run are best erased from the memory\, so the theme I have
  chosen for this weekend is... DRUGS. Yes\, I’ve decided it’s all abou
 t the SH4 approach to life’s trials\, tribulations\, triumphs and thrill
 s\, all of which can be rolled into one hash camping weekend. Are you read
 y? Here we go...\n\nAnti-depressants\n\nFallen Woman was very depressed at
  missing out on the pubs of Salcombe due to the lack of arrows pointing in
 to them – I was quite surprised to discover that FW couldn’t find her 
 way into a pub after all those years of practice\, but administered anti-d
 epressant therapy to her at the drinks stop which I think helped. She dran
 k it down quite fast anyway.\n\nPain relief\n\nWhisperer trialled Stella a
 s a drug for relief of his back pain. Bee Flicker (whose wig I thought was
  just fabulous darling) knelt over his prostrate (even before he had downe
 d his first bottle) form and kneaded his back to loosen it out\, but Whisp
 ers decided the Stella was more effective and\, utilising the ‘more is b
 etter’ principle\, kept on taking it until he passed out.\n\nAt the drin
 k stop Goolie and Pony Shafter\, no doubt feeling the mellowing benefits o
 f the previous four pub visits broke into song\, mostly sea-shanties as fa
 r as I could tell\, but which left several of us wincing somewhat. I admin
 istered more pain relief\, mostly to myself.\n\nEndorphins\n\nWell\, runni
 ng is the obvious way to get some of these released into your system\, but
  naturally there were hashers who chose other means: Overshot\, inspired b
 y daughter Eliza chose backwards roly-poly-ing down the field as his metho
 d\, whilst Sniffer busied herself trying to ignore his childish antics. Su
 shi appears to get his endorphin rush from skimpy underwear – now I don
 ’t know for sure who actually wears it in his relationship\; Ah-So hotly
  denies it and I for one believe her but anyway it’s one of them and he 
 looks very happy about it. It takes all sorts. Crackerjack declared it was
  the second worst day of his life\, I know not why\, but think he must hav
 e ingested some...\n\nSteroids\n\nThe kids – SURELY they were on somethi
 ng – how can such little people have so much energy?? They did a 7-mile 
 run in the day\, then another 8-10 miles in the evening racing around chas
 ing each other. Their poor parents\, no wonder they look exhausted all the
  time –that was me once\, but long enough ago now that happily amnesia h
 as set in. I don’t think there’s a drug for that and if there was\, I 
 wouldn’t take it anyway when it comes to recalling the child-rearing yea
 rs\, I prefer the more psychotropic ones where it’s either all a blur\, 
 or else some hazy fondness of halcyon pre-referendum days when there were 
 flowers and smiley happy people everywhere and everything in the garden wa
 s lovely... Sorry\, I drifted off there. Come 2nite might benefit from mem
 ory-enhancement medication though\, having converted to vegetarianism rece
 ntly\, it appears faced with a pork pie that she completely forgot and tuc
 ked in before remembering. It’s the thought that counts\, unless you’r
 e a pig of course\, or indeed a chicken\, sheep or a cow and possibly a fi
 sh...\n\nLubricants\n\nEeeuw\, this could get messy and I’m going to glo
 ss over the details to save any parents having to explain to their curious
  children why Tyred Bunny wanted to borrow some butter when it wasn’t fo
 r a bun but instead to relieve his chafing. Least said\, soonest mended\, 
 methinks.\n\nAnaesthetic\n\nWas greatly needed by those campers who braved
  the wintery chills of the Friday night\; the families of Nice Buns and Ri
 zzo amongst them who found the conditions less than clement for a mid-summ
 er’s eve. Saturday night seemed to go better for them\, and they seemed 
 a good deal more cheerful come Sunday morning so we can assume that whatev
 er it was they took\, it worked.\n\nX-ray contrast agents (‘x-ray dye’
  for the non-radiographers\, nurses\, medics and possibly vets)\n\nWell\, 
 I couldn’t finish writing these words without mentioning dear Know Nuts\
 , whose gallant efforts to lay the trail were thwarted by his heart which 
 decided to have a hissy fit before the weekend was even under way. Althoug
 h he will be a walking medicine cabinet for a while\, the drug I have chos
 en is the one which will reveal on angiogram which of his coronary arterie
 s were all gummed up\, but which by the time you read these Words will be 
 suitably de-coked and raring to go again. Get well soon Know Nuts\, and go
 od luck to Nutcracker who will be on nursing duties at home as well as at 
 work.\n\nYou will notice that with the exception of only one or two of the
  above\, similar effects could have been achieved through the use of one s
 imple cure-all that doesn’t even need a doctor’s prescription – ALCO
 HOL. And indeed\, so it was that no-one actually TOOK any of the aforement
 ioned drugs\, but we all did take an awful lot of that one. Thanks for a g
 rand weekend to organiser-in-chief Goolie\, hares Nutcracker\, Twisted Sis
 ter and Overshot and to willing helpers for setting up gazebo\, fire-pit e
 tc. On-on to the next one.
CATEGORIES:Away Events,Hash Trails,Social Events
LOCATION:Alston Farm Campsite Alston Farm\, Malborough\, England\, TQ7 3BJ\
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