QH3 Run 863. Robin Hood and Little John, Arnold

RUN #863
Date : Monday 30th March 2015 (19:40)
Location: Robin Hood and Little John, Arnold (NG5 8FD)
Hare: Too Tuf
Weather: Raining and wet
Pack size: 9


This was the first hash of the year running to British Summer Time - were we going to get an evening run in daylight? The short answer was no. Apart from it being very wet and dull, the first miserable weather of Butt Plug's RAship, we didn't get going until 19:40 waiting for the GM to find the pub. As a result the bits off-road the hare had expected to run in the light were done in darkness, and nobody had a torch.
It was an excellent hash pub, indeed Nottingham Camra pub of the year for 2015. Though with no car park, and little information provided as to where to park, the walk from car parking to the pub turned out to be a high percentage of the distance covered by today's trail, a mere 3.2 miles. An early entry for the wettest and shortest trail of the year.
A memorable moment of the trail was when Captain Oates, with only the light from his water bottle to guide him, tripped over the curb and went flying. The end of the trail came too soon, I went off on a diversion and Malteaser refused to believe the last 300 m of the trail went where it did straight back to the On Inn.
Butt Plug led an indoor circle with the first DD going to B*gger for arriving late and not turning up in his new car. Captain Oates with his 'water bottle' torch was criticised for not leading the hash around in the dark and his 'mischeck' was noted. Smutley off-loaded his large bunch of keys ('fobber') to Chicki who was gullible enough to accept this responsibility ('bunch cradler'). Both got a DD. Malteaser was punished for not listening to advice at the end of the trail.
Noted features of this trail, apart from being a CAMRA pub of the year, were a Baker Crescent and what was believed to be predominantly virgin hash trail. I don't remember the hare being awarded hash shit so I guess it must have been about 42%, Too Tuf got a DD consumed in his customary slow manner.

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

Trail as done by Durex
(actual hash trail only 3.2 miles!)