This was a joint hash run from the Bull's Head, Belper Lane End, with the Ashbourne House House Harriettes and Harriers and the Quorn H3, supplemented by some notable visitors from the Birmingham Hash. Not wishing to give a biased view of a trail set by myself, Bugger was commissioned as scribe and RA for the day. It was certainly the best ON IN circle of the year!
Scribe by Bugger.
Quorn H3 Run 756 / Ashbourne H4 Run 31
The Bulls Head, Belper Lane End, Saturday 7th
April 2012.
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| Hares - Durex and Malteaser |
As far as my records
go, apart from weekend events, this is the first time QH3 have hashed on a
Saturday, but that didn’t stop a good dozen making their way to Belper Lane End
to join another dozen from Ashbourne (plus a couple from Birmingham & a
stray from Eastbourne – more later) for the 2nd Joint trail. An availability of public transport allowed Too Tuf, Chicki, Freya & Barritone, all
to be at the pub before 11am,
although it had meant a very early start for some.
Horse’s Arse got the circle underway being the AH4 RA, as
the AH4 GM (Durex) was the busy being
the hare (along with Malteaser), he
then requested if QH3 could supply their own RA & yours truly was
nominated, as I have a Minor Position.
As the circle was
being formed, Wriggle felt a bit
moist (she said it was rain) & duly got a coat out of the car & put it
on – that’s confidence in the RA! The pack turned left out of the car park to
an immediate check, IWB showed his
hand early – in his ability to not only go the wrong way, but to go a long way
the wrong way, the antenna (bunny ears) that he was wearing was obviously not
tuned into the Hare’s (& dad’s) frequency.
The trail went up,
along an ancient footpath, then a bit of road before turning off into the
fields, lots of tricky stiles to negotiate, especially if you have a normal
sized Labrador, luckily I had managed to offload mine onto Totem Pole & Enema, who ‘persuaded’ her through the tightest
ones. Down the hill, through the gorse
bushes to the first of 3 river crossings – this one had easy stones to use,
back up the hill, through the herd of noisy cows, more nasty stiles before a
descent back down to the river and this time a bridge. Assistant hare Too Tuf tried to set a bar (the hare had somehow forgot to set
one?) to catch out the hashers behind him, but he was caught in the act and so
the bar was ignored.
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Too Tuf offering his pole to
Wriggle then Chicki |
Another hill to
climb (I can see why Malteaser
elected to do the beer stop, as there def. more up than down), the FRB’s
completely losing the trail at this point due to the lack of use that these
cracking paths get. Once back on trail
& the check sorted, we went down into the valley for the third & final
river crossing, this time the bridge was well barred, I took the true hashers
approach – jumping in upstream of the bridge & wading down steam under the
bridge, whilst the rest of the pack fannied about trying to find away to jump
across, Sir Walter Riley (Too Tuf), luckily found a good stick to hold, to
assist not only Lady Chicki but Lady Wriggle as well, across the 2ft
wide chasm.
Up the Bluebell
covered bank & out onto the tops, with the banks of snow still evident in
the distance, the hare insisting that yesterday it was waist deep???? Only a
few more evil stiles, and then half mile of road (where we found Tweeny with
horn & hound) & we were at the beer stop and Easter Egg Hunt – Yes,
Malteaser had not eaten it all, but taken the time to hide chocolate eggs
around the disused quarry – one of first to arrive was truffle hound Bess (the
aforementioned Lab) who showed a talent for finding & eating the eggs, foil
& all. Also here, climbing the
quarry walls were Stretcny (BH3) & Mrs Ox (Eastbourne), having not found
any eggs, Stretchy then built a fireless fire for us all to stand round – no I
don’t know why either.
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| Wallington finds the golden egg |
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| Beer and Easter egg stop |
Having been
replenished with ‘French lager from Tesco’ we set off on the 1.5 miles to the
pub, and after Wriggle was caught front running (“what does ‘on three’ mean?”)
there was the mother of all hills before a descent (in the rain) to the
pub. A cracking trail was followed by a
cracking circle – Horse’s Arse then decided that as I had ‘volunteered’ I could
do all the circle, which the AH4 GM requested be held in the bar.
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| Scrooge christening his new shoes |
DD’s were awarded
to: Durex, Malteaser & Too Tuf for laying the flour; Chicki & Horse’s
Arse, for him showing her how use her rim, the SCB’s; Wriggle, Wallington & Wheelchair; Stretchy & Mrs Ox for playing knickers’
top trumps, Barritone for only being able to count to 1; IWB for going astray;
Totem Pole for calling my dog the wrong name; Too Tuf & Chicki for help on
river crossing and to both Scrooge & Die Rear for wearing new shoes.
Well that’s how I
remember it, Bugger, Minor Position, Quorn H3.
Run as done by Horse's Arse.
Compare with the trail as set by Durex Run 31.
