QH3 Run 915. Old Ship Inn, Lowdham

RUN #915

Date : Sunday 4th September 2016
Location: The Old Ship, Lowdham
Hare: Butt Plug
Weather: Dry and mild
Pack size: 9

Butt Plug trails are always contenders for 'Trail of the Year' and this could be another one, certainly gets my nomination for the best trail in September. We

Today's trail was a forager's dream, including
this puffball fungus

don't often hash this side of Nottingham and, although we have hashed from Lowdham before, much of this was virgin trail. It was certainly a forager's trail with abundant damson, plum and apple trees along the way, and the odd puff ball fungi. 
For her second successive run Chicki turned up in new shoes, identical to Too Tuf's but not as fast and still with the labels on. It is becoming increasingly difficult to get away with misdemeanors behind the RA's back on the trail. Especially today as she was 'running in' her new shoes from the back of the pack.

So just how did we manage to tell Chicki had new shoes?

It's good when hashers wear bright T-shirts (the exception being fluorescent pink) because you can see them a long way ahead and on checks. Both Wednesday and Diarrhoea had bright orange T-shirts and both did a lot of checking, as did Lily the Pink in her bright blue top. Barritone was on good form with the hash horn. It is difficult to get a note out of the horn whilst running on a hash let alone after having cycled all the way from Beeston.
I had to depart the On Inn early and missed the circle, so the following is from RA Chicki's notes:

DDs were awarded as follows:-

1. Durex - for furtive activity with plums.  Durex had left the hash to wash his hair before attending an important function so Barritone stepped forward as lookie-likey.

2. Too Tuf - for sticking his knob into a bush on the run.

3. Chicki - for new shoes again.

4. Lily the Pink - for refusing to check out an overgrown footpath because a nice hare wouldn't do that to the hash.

5. Wednesday - for being the only person who felt that she should read all the instructions on crossing the road safely, which were handed out by the hare because there were a couple of busy roads to negotiate.  Wednesday is a doctor but clearly still unsure of how to cross a road.

6. Wee Willie - for being very late for the run because he had gone to the wrong bus stop and then took Lily's suggestion of running to the hash seriously.

7. Butt Plug - for an excellent trail, although 58% was deducted for a couple of difficult foot paths making the trail 42%.

On On.. Durex

Trail as done by Durex