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| Hosts for the evening - Too Tuf and Chicki |
Saturday 4th February was the annual QH3 awards held at the Test Match, West Bridgford. The adventure started before that. Heavy snow falling since mid afternoon meant some never made it to the venue. We picked up Skids from Kegworth, roads still drivable into Nottingham. Plan A was to leave the car at the Test Match, taxi back to Kegworth and then pick it up after the next day’s hash. Plan A started well. First to arrive, we helped to rearrange furniture in the Monroe Suite for the 20 award night guests before we all tucked into our pre-ordered menu.
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| Enthralled guests? |
Too Tuf and Chicki led the awards ceremony (results not publicly available yet!), ending at 11:20. By now the snow was deeper, public transport had ceased to run, and our pre-ordered taxi decided it couldn’t make it. Wallington and Plan B to the rescue. No problem for Wallington, ex-racing driver, to get us back to Kegworth in his Kia. Roads were fine, Britain goes into panic with 10 cm snow, no reason for a pre-booked taxi to let us down.
On Sunday it was from the Test Match that the second innings of the Quorn hashy weekend commenced. Run 750 set by Chicki celebrating 25 years of hashing. Except it hadn’t been set due to the heavy snow. This was going to be a live hare laid with flour with lumpy bits. Was Chicki and her little helper going to be able to get going before 11:00? In my 27 years of hashing, snowy runs like this can be counted on one hand, though with much of my hashing done in the tropics I suppose that’s not much surprise. Skids brought along the sledge, a first Quorn Hash done by sledge? Cars left overnight were cleared of snow during a big snowball fight. A few no balls there.  |
| QH3 Hash pack for run 750 (minus Barritone in shorts and T-shirt parking his bike!) Photo by Durex |
It was a reasonably sized pack considering the conditions, about ten, though that may include the snowman. Barritone was in regulation hash gear – T-shirt and shorts having arrived by bicycle. Everyone else looked as though they were going mountaineering. In the absence of any hash committee, the run was started by the most decorated hasher of the awards night, Smutley. No half measures from the hare, a regular length run of 5.4 miles which took an hour-and-a-half on account of the numerous stops for snow ball fights and sledging. Snow made the running hard but it wasn’t icy, and a bright sunny start had warmed things up to just above freezing. I tried to get into the hares head to work out the flour laying strategy, unfortunately I found nothing there. Neat checking circles were laid by a stationary size nine hasher, false trails were laid by a larger size shoe.
The three Beverley sisters – glamorous grannies Miss Takemenow, Skids and Malteaser – ably abetted by Shagulater, turned a few heads sledging. Usually you have to have a child in tow in order to play in the snow like this. Butt Plug was active in sorting out some of the more tricky checks but it was Barritone and those FRBs IP and Sweet Pea who joined me chasing the hare to the ON INN.
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| A sledging hash - photos by Shagulater |
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| Skids and Malteaser |
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| Miss Takemenow |
A memorable hash was made even better with hash chip butties. Chicki making an early attempt for Hash of the Year. Multiple award win Smutley led the circle ending by justifiably thanking the hare for a wonderful awards night and memorable hash in the snow.
Just to prove we did a proper hash trails, this is it, as run by Durex - Run 750.
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