MH3 Run 259. Furnace Inn, Derby

MH3 Run 259
Date: Monday 12th January 2015
Location: Furnace Inn, Derby(DE1 3BX)
Hares: Malteaser and Durex
Weather: Holding out until the last hound was back!
Pack size: 20




The Furnace Inn is everything a good hash On Inn should be. Fantastic range of real ales, good traditional bar snacks, dog and people friendly, and well placed for public transport links on the edge of Derby city. The weather forecast for the day was not so - good high winds and heavy rain all day.

In view of the rain, the two hares laid separate halves of the trail so flour was as fresh as possible. Almost, but not quite, a live hare as Durex arrived back at the pub at 19:16. Fortunately, the two halves met but it was generally agreed, and demonstrated by the length of time spent on checks, Malteaser set the more challenging part of the trail. The check at the Toll bridge above the Abbey was very effective in turning around Beefeater and most of the FRBs (Trianal excepted) who really wanted to go the quickest way back to the pub. It was also our good fortune that the rain front spent most of the day just north of Lichfield and didn't arrive until the last hounds - Spike and Barritone - had completed this five-mile trail (OK about six with checks).

A big circle was held held inside the pub. First DD went to Lightening Rod for competitive checking. Most of our local hashes have relatively small pack sizes and we can't afford to have everyone checking the same false trail! Diarrhoea was seen abusing a dog (he jumped over it - there's a nursery rhyme there somewhere) and hare Malteaser stepped in to apologise to the owner. We had some returners, namely, Woggle and Spike - I noticed Dobber didn't use the term 'welcome backs'. Butcher's Dog got a samosa DD as she was dry for January. And finally the hares got thanked for a good run in the traditional manner. 

Once the circle was finished, Diarrhoea pointed out that the RA had missed an opportunity to punish Beefeater for misusing his torch in the Gents. This prompted a spate of typical Diarrhoea toilet humour.

That's the way MH3 run 259 happened.......On On ...Durex

Trail as swept by CoHare Durex (ie. no false trails)