A good turnout at our Circle where Piltdown posed his latest question, concerning the late Ken Dodd “ name three of the Diddy Men?” several names were called but rejected!
With no-one won a free pint this week! but Doris did find a Hare for the 16th April thanks to “Only-here for the- Beer".
Archangel described his trail with L/S splits, but the rest was nothing like we were going to experience.
On-On along Wolborough Street we headed the up a steadily steeper footpath to arrive at the Wolborough Church and another Check, there had already been much hopeful searching by arrivals here, leaving only one possible way open...On-On through Wolborough Barton Farm yard then out across the fields towards Abbotskerswell ...problem was the first gate hid a massive mud and slurry patch which certainly deterred some of the pack!
Into the deep shiggy we strode, where every step seemed to take you deeper down into it, almost loosing our balance at times. but stopping only risked you having your shoes sucked off!
Stumbling on to dryer equally uneven ground, there was a chance to look back to see and hear the calls from some who decided to find their own trail!
Out onto Stonemans Hill a dry lane, which lead us upwards again, before another L/S split lead us Shorts out across the high fields towards Decoy Woods, with the Longs heading to Abbotskerswell before turning towards Decoy.
Another muddy field had to be negotiated before us Shorts finally reached a less muddy track where we eventually met coming towards us.... Bluebird! leading the breakaway Hash, he showed us his muddy shoes claiming to have entered that shiggy field... but we were not convinced!
After a final run up to Wolborough Church it was soon all downhill and On-Home.
The atmosphere was very welcoming inside the Wolborough, where the landlord had provided some tasty food and good beers to help us recover from the “ordeal in the mud”.
The offenders were called forward by Mouldy starting with ….
Manopause: Who lost a shoe in the mud and then himself!
Manpig: For leading the pack astray or was it B...B...?
Neil: now officially ROXANNE for always having his fuel light on red.
Fukawe : Who came in to buy a drink! awarded his Pillock of the Year shirt
Mouldy Dick: For poor parking in the spacious car park!
Number 2: Her 250th Runs badge at last.
Forrest: The most mud covered Hasher of the evening.
Archangel: For putting us through all of that MUD.
Well done the Hare Archangel for a great evening!
On to next week our AGPU with excellent FREE FOOD at The Wellington Inn Ipplepen. Hare's Wet Johnny & Manopause
On-On
Winfield
