QH3 Run 845 Jolly Farmers, Shepshed

RUN #845

Date : Sunday 21st September 2014
Location: Jolly Farmers, Shepshed (LE12 9EP) 
Hare: Wallington
Weather: Late summer sunshine
Pack size: 14


Hash records (Runs 1 - 843) only list three previous runs from Shepshed, the last being nearly 20 years ago, and none from the Jolly Farmers. Yet our hare Wallington described a Mango trail set from here - must be one of our missing runs? Nice to be back to a normal hash trail format, the hare clearly demonstrating

Our normal simple hash markings were used today

our simple hash markings (see photo), though he didn't mention arrows or question marks. The latter confused a number of hashers into believing it was a kicked out check, just as well it didn't point over a cliff. Today a holding check sign meant "wait for the hare to catch up" rather than "wait here for the hare to give you a lift in his car".
This week Captain Oates set off like a greyhound  maintaining a respectable distance from our normal FRBs right up to the fourth check. Here I happened to follow him down a false trail for about half-a-mile, or so I thought. My abuse about not running on flour was apparently directed at a non-hasher.

A sofa was available en route
for the weary

Plenty of tarmac on the run but this was offset with some good woodland trails, including a few Wallington specials that led the FRBs to follow more than three blobs down a false trail. A good river crossing looping under the track kept B*gger happy though the directional arrows confused Captain Oates. Skids with her long stripy sock was able to stroll through stinging nettles but didn't make her go any faster. Unlike Chicki.
Interesting sights on the trail included an amazing topiaried garden, and then there was that sofa. And, how often to you stumble upon Robin Hood and his merry men? Some extreme fly tipping had left a large sofa a good way from the road. With a freezer nearby maybe someone was in the process of moving house.
The welcoming pub proved to be an ideal hash On-Inn, Butt Plug our RA leading our outside circle in the sunshine. Down Downs were awarded to:

...henceforth in hashing circles
you will be known as Dope

1. Captains Oates for misinterpreting the picture on Too Tuf's shorts;
2. & 3. Too Tuf and Diarrhoea peeing on the hash, the latter in a corn field - 'corn fields have ears and now we know they have eyes as well';
4. Wallington, the hare, for a 42% good trail;
5. Josh finally got named - Dope so we now have a family of hashers named Heroin and Dope;
6. Chicki got tangled in nettles ('laso-rated'). She was also dobbed-in for suggesting she could play Pooh-sticks on a stagnant lake; and finally
7. Durex for the redesign of the website using 'magic Durex scripts'. 

That's the way I saw it....On On..Durex

Trail as done by Durex