QH3 Run 891. Bluebell, Attenborough

RUN #891

Date : Sunday 3rd January 2016
Location: Bluebell, Attenborough, Nottingham 
Hare: Barritone
Weather: Wet and windy
Pack size: 17






A Winter's Trail (in remembrance that this is the 400th year since Shakespeare's death) or a CSI Investigation (given the forensic skills needed to find some of the flour)? These were some of the suggestions for naming today's run. There was also much speculation regarding the wet weather, our first wet trail since the end of March, the week before Chicki became RA. Had Chicki failed to renew the annual subscription to her weather app or was she just sharing the rain a bit more fairly? On arrival she gave her excuse feeling too tired to look after the weather! Don't complain about having to negotiate those slippery muddy paths if you don't take care of the weather.

Barritone always sets a very well marked trail so, even fore-warned, the extent of the obliterated flour trail on the public paths of the Attenborough Nature Reserve was a surprise, Someone had done a really good job removing every blob, rather pointlessly as the heavy rain was doing this anyway. Strangely enough the blobs were removed but not the bars. With a few hints from the hare, the pack did manage to find the correct trail. I was expecting a fairly simple trail around the Attenborough  but Barritone managed to find paths not used before.

Back at the On Inn the pub matched the miserable weather. A review of the pub I found from September 2013 still seemed very relevant today:
"A Flaming Grill pub with their hellish colour scheme approached through a large, empty car park .....There is a horrible suburban feel to it, and the staff appear dull and generally characterless. This is a bland establishment which was probably more interesting as a building site."

The circle was held inside commencing with (1) Shagulater getting a wee one -

Too Tuf - QH3's first 600 timer

how was he warming up his hands? (2) Butcher's Dog - leading the pack down 'an authorised person only track'. (3) Butt Plug and and Durex for RA abuse. (4) IP took a DD for Sweet Pea for zooming past Chicki who was going at a snail's pace through the muddy bits. (5) B*gger whose physio means he can now run. (6) Too Tuf and Sausage for run name suggestions. (7) Too Tuf again for the momentous event of becoming the first Quorn hasher to reach 600 runs. (8) During the run discussion the inevitable 'best trail of the year' was mentioned. The whereabouts of the promised Llamas and sheep was questioned. A secret ballot was so secret I missed the results but I think it was an excellent trail set under difficult conditions. Well laid Barritone. (9) Sweet Pea received a hashy birthday....and we finished with the hash hymn.
So starteth another hash year  .....Durex

Trail as run by Durex