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Run Number: |
1238 13/08/01 |
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website – http://www.bhhh.freeserve.co.uk
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Venue: |
Blackwood Arms, Burnham Beeches |
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Hares: |
Tweenie and not Sven |
The Jolly Woodmen
Lonely, Beaver, Ponyexpress, Daftodildo, GBH,
Zebedee, Florence, Baldrick, Cheating, Spex, Centaur, Dumper, Foghorn, Le
Voisin, Mr.Blobby, Lynda, Septic, Itsyor, Mrs. Blobby, Utopia, Dee Whinge,
Claire, Harimau, Cerberus, Spot, Ian, Oldfart, Balloonman, Judy, Dribbler,
Butterfly, Chuck, Dwight, Gutbucket, Motox, Mafia, Haystax, Steve, Mrs.Dwight and junior, Tim and Early
Rangers – 1
Tweenie – 0 (after extra
time)
The first part of the
trail leads to another pub – the Jolly Woodman. Here there’s much milling
about. Daftodildo is darting around like a blue-arsed fly to no avail. A tanned
Ponyexpress, still on Majorcan time, is more inclined to chat than check.
Eventually we get going. Baldrick makes disparaging remarks about the quality
of the hash and Claire from Holyport about the quality of the hashers. “Odd
hash” she says “No calling and not much running”. Hasn’t she been with
Berkshire before?! On across a couple of fields. Spex admires the vista but the
unromantic GBH can see only the chimneys of Slough. Soon there’s a check with a
“B” in it. Hooray! Beer! But alas no – it’s “B” for……..blackberries!
Further on Mr Blobby
stops to admire a newly-built mansion – a possible “Duncheckin” for the
Blobbies but decides it’s too far from the Turners Arms. At the next check
Tweenie has foolishly left his unostentatious BMW with its window open leaving
GBH no choice but to put flour in it. Gutbucket falls about laughing. Running
through the gloomy woods it’s eerily quiet. Few are checking , no one is
calling. Cerberus is the exception – she has a very distinctive call – surely a
rival to Foghorn! The middle part of the trail is good with the pack being
reversed and Spex trail-blazing at one point.
The hare summons us with
a bugle call. He sends the short-cutters one way and the rest to the regroup.
There’s a chorus of “Sven will I see you again” as Tweenie explains about the
absence of his co-hare. Just after the RG a ranger pulls up in his jeep and
asks who’s in charge. We all point to Captain Tween and scarper. Apparently
we’re not allowed to lay flour in Burnham Beeches – it’s unnatural! The ranger
has rubbed out a lot of the trail so from now on we’re lost. We have to follow
Balloonman back along the Burnham half marathon (and it feels like it) route.
Darkness falls. Tweenie appears in his car to light our way. He chases Dee,
Whinge, Spex, Ian, Tim and Florence along the road to a turning from whence we
wend our weary way back to the ON-INN. We get back to the pub just in time to
miss the food. Itsyor and Mrs.Dwight’s dinners look very tasty but it’s beans
on toast at midnight for us again!!
On On.
Florence
RA Dumper presented the following Down Downs
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Name |
Reason |
Style points |
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Ian |
New shoes – He was grassed on by Spex |
Good performance from his not-so-new shoe. In fact it was his mate Tim who had new shoes! |
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Zebedee |
Jumping over straw bales a la Tough Guy and then complaining when Florence wasn’t impressed – she didn’t even notice. |
A bit slow according to Gutbucket |
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Dwight |
Birthday |
Smooth |
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Daftodildo |
Visitor from Scarborough Hash |
Wasted most of it on his head – northerners! |
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Tweenie |
Sole hare |
No problem |
Receding Hare-line
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Run Number |
Date |
Grid Reference |
Venue |
Hares |
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1240 |
27/08/01 |
452646 |
The Bowlers Arms, Falkland Cricket Club, WASH COMMON |
Cyclogical and Twincam |
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**************3/9/01 Joint hash with Guildford |
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1241 |
03/09/01 7:15pm |
905576 |
****** NB Venue
Change ****** Military Museum,
DEEPCUT on B3015 Thai on-on £10 for
food and drink see Cheating |
Cheating
& Chuck |
CURRY RUN on Wednesday 22nd
August – see Mrs Blobby or Utopia