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A CHURCHILLIAN HASH: MUD, SWEAT, TOIL AND TEARS
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Now, Raucous is a girl of great personal charm, and even greater athletic ability. So why, you may ask, did she do this to us today after not appearing on the hash for so many months? By her own account she put 8 hours of recce into the trail, which took 3and1/2 hours to lay; she must have had some idea of what would happen to the pack...
The front runners came in at 1.15, the longest trail for some years. The circle was held as soon as Arfur Pint was back at the bucket, which is a good rule of thumb for timing, but there must have been many still out there when the circle was over; for once Arfur and Invisible M not only did it all, but were still in touch with the front runners at the end.
There seems little point in establishing where we went; far to the other, eastern, side of the M23, taking in the Dog and Duck and the windmill at Outwood - which fortunately was our Ultima Thule - and then back again. We got very muddy indeed, and nobody won the prize offered for a hasher with dry feet. Certainly several hashers were imaginative enough to do their own thing at times; not just GG this time, but also Spingo, who seduced her husband into following her astray with their pooch still straining at the bit in canine enthusiasm for the trail. (The only one by that time).Count Dracula, also with dog, drew rather shakily on local knowledge, (he was ready to give up flour at the windmill, but then found the solution to the check by chance) and so did it all, his longer more youthful legs outstripping FRB at the end.
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Icepyck was awarded a down-down for the acumen accuracy and insight he brought to the checks, though Tequil'over objected that no one could hear Icepyck's calls. TO himself rather rashly accepted a challenge to wade through an inviting puddle; it was so deep we nearly despaired of seeing him again. His down-down was for the out-of heel state of his shoes. Taco Bell got one in honour of the Japanese share in today's pack; indeed Country Bumpkin solved a check at which the whole pack had become mutinous.
For once GG's perpetual complaint at the lack of back checks (usually only the very front runners know when there has been a back check) was largely justified, but they would have made this trail even longer. And we might have missed the "Toads in Road" sign.
You will find as you read on that this account has been truncated to make room for a lament. (T-Total: Vidal? I don't even know who he is)
Be warned that all is not as it seems; the GM was indeed in Dorking, at the 80th birthday party of an aunt, to which Popeye was not invited....
But since the Onsex do solicit contributions, we felt obliged to print this one; and shall welcome others, preferably by e-mail.
The good news is that Low Profile has recovered well from his op and will soon resume his rightful place, not just at the circle.
ON ON FRB
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