AH4, Cricketer's Arms, Oakwood (05/11/2011)

For this hash we left the Derbyshire drizzle and made a rare hashing trip into the Staffordshire countryside near Alton Towers. It had rained much the previous day and the Hares (Mamma Rose, Andean Sex Beast (ASB) and Hash Puppy) were quick to make excuses about the flour being there "once upon a time". They even prepared sealed maps to be opened in case of emergency, like getting hopelessly lost. Their fears were unfounded as Mamma Rose and Hash Puppy more-or-less did a live hare and managed to get the whole trail relaid without being caught by the pack. This was greatly helped by a cheeky downhill check near the start with three blobs of flour that distracted the hashers for a good 10 minutes. Then there were the fish hooks. ASB sweeping slowly at the back meant the FRBs had a lot of extra running. Butcher's Dog just about ran every false trail but must have been gutted to find she only ran two of the three fish hooks. Wheelchair ran a canny trail approaching the fish hooks at walking pace - only runners have to observe them, i.e. turn around and return to the back of the pack. However, he was caught running to the last one and showed exemplary observance of hash rules and did the run to the back. Such was the nature of the run that hash puppies Butcher's Apprentice and Lord ? led the ON-IN down the hill into Oakwood, fortunate to be advised that the arrows they wished to follow were actually the way we went out.
We had a cosy circle in a room of our own in the Cricketer's Arms and the new T-shirts started to sell like cream cakes after Lent. We had a hashy birthday for Malteaser; the RA got done for stupidly immobolising his car after a hash for a second time; plus the usual finale of NODDYs (Not Offered a Down Down Yet). And there was also some namings made easy by earlier misfortunes (Head Banger) and  surfers against sewage attire (Floater). That's how I remember it. Another fine AH4 run - well done the hares for laying such a well-marked trail!

Hash Trail as run by Horse's Arse

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