The Rugglestone, Widecombe-in-the Moor
Run No. 2017 St. George's Day Run
HARE: Beefy
Who
wuz there: Beefy, Shitfaced, Man-Pig, Forrest-Stump, Piltdown Man,
Georgy Porgy, Shay, Warmfront, Psycho, Beeflicker, Squeaky Bum,
Strap-On, Strap Dancer, Fukarewe, Ernie, Melonpicker, Slip-on-Me,
Coldtits, Only Here for the Beer, Wet Johnny, Manopause Magnifico,
Erection and returnee Amy.
Circle
Fortunately,
Beefy's FB warnings of a 30% chance of rain didn't come to fruition.
But with numbers down to 2, perhaps some Hashers did, indeed, take due
cogniscence of the declining weather conditions.
The
Hare was clearly not one for heeding his own advice as he ran into the
car park with shorts and a singlet on. It might not have been raining
but it was cool and breezy; as evidenced by a number of Hashers running
on the spot in order to keep warm.
Being
a St George's Day hash, some had made quite an effort to dress for the
occasion. Beeflicker came as a knight crusader and Slip-on-Me and her
mutt both came as dragons. Others wore red and/or white. There were
quite a few England football tops, Psycho and the Penners. Others,
including Coldtits, saved their St George's Day outfits for the pub.
In
the absence of Smellie ,(poorly) notices were brief. Man-Pig advised
that he had spoken to Broken Man at last week's Hash and Broken Man had
mentioned that the Queens in Brixham would be arranging a celebration
of Fallen Woman's life at some stage in the near future.
Additionally,
all funds raised would go to Fallen Woman and Broken Man's preferred
mental health charity. Man-Pig also put in a plug for the Devon A2B on
Saturday 1st June. South Hams Hash have planned to do a trail in Fallen
Woman's memory.
SH4
have arranged to combine their memorial run with June's Devon A2B
trail. They are expecting quite a large turnout so there will be a
Walkers' trail that will take in a number of pubs in Brixham. The
Shorts and the Longs will have to travel a little further afield to
earn their beers. As is always the case with the A2B, we do not know
where Point B will be. However, there is always the possibility that
the run may coincide with the Queen's Hotel (Station Road, Brixham)
memorial event.
Slip-on-Me
had an announcement regarding Teapot. She had been speaking with
Ablesemen who has visited Teapot at home. Teapot is making slow progress
but he is going in the right direction. Let's hope that progress
continues.
Over
to the Hare. I think the distances were Walkers' 1.5 (possible shorter
for Shitfaced and Only here for the Beer), Shorts' 3.5 and Longs' 4.5.
"It's On over there", shouts Beefy pointing due South towards Wind Tor.
Trail
The
trail did not commence from the Rugglestone car park. Instead we
started from a small car park on the Two Moors Way on Dunstone Down.
This is on the high moor about a mile from the pub. The views were
outstanding and enjoyed by all, in spite of the refreshing breeze.
The
trail commenced with all three trails heading towards Wind Tor (the
clue's in the name) and the first Long/Short split that I don't think
was a split at all. Just a small loop around the Tor for the Longs and
the Shorts and then a continuation south and across Bittleford Down. A
single narrow open road crosses Bittleford Down and this was the point
at which the Walkers' trail parted company with the Longs and the
Shorts.
The
Walkers now headed west on road to the sweetie stop. Meanwhile, the
Longs and the Shorts dropped down onto the road between Widecombe and
Ponsworthy and then headed towards Bittleford.
At
this point, it was the usual story. FRB's comprised Beeflicker, the
Topiary Twins, Shay and the recovered Wet Johnny. Midfield was Man-Pig
followed by Amy, Fukarewe and Ernie.
At
Bittleford, a check had Beeflicker climbing over a wall marked with a
promising Public Footpath sign. He wasn't gone long before he came
across a cross...so to speak.
The
trail now took us onto the crossroads at Lizwell before turning right
and down to the tiny and incredibly picturesque conurbation of Jordan,
passing Waterleat Farm and Old Walls on our left.
From
here, we climbed up towards Dockwell. At the crossroads, we caught up
with Coldtits on the Walker's trail. The trail dropped through Dockwell
before an arrow directed us along another public footpath into a
copse. Here the Long's caught up with Erection and Manopause. They were
looking perplexed, and with good reason. They had found an arrow that
had pointed them directly towards a Ha Ha.
We
eventually concluded that we needed to backtrack against two arrows
and back onto the road. Sure enough, the sweetie stop was just over the
brow of the hill.
Beefy
has many talents, steam train driver, welder and, on this occasion,
baker. Beefy had baked some excellent flapjacks; each resplendent with
St George's cross icing. Apparently made with both butter and clotted
cream. They were yummy.
A few yards further on was the final Long & Short/Walkers' split.
The
Walkers continued directly back to the car park along Two Moors Way.
The Longs and Shorts veered left and across the moor roughly towards
Rowden Cross before looping back to the car park from the opposite
direction from whence we departed some 60 minutes earlier.
Not quite 8.30 and 4.74 scenic miles and all in daylight. Another lovely Beefy trail matched by some awesome flapjacks.
Down-Downs
Forrest-Stump
assumed RA'ing duties and asked who had (or, more accurately, who had
forgotten) their awards from last week. The current custodian of the
Hashshit shirt is Fukarewe. He has a story but no shirt as he has
forgotten to bring it. There are no rules in the Hash so he has a story
from last week.
Towards
the end of last week's trail, Fukarewe and Ernie passed a farm from
which there emanated the sounds of a lot of rather excited animals.
What had prompted their arousal. Just at that point Coldtits emerges
from the direction of the farm adjusting her drawers. A note for "The
sex pest 4".
Now
it is Coldtits' turn to dish out the dirt as she has the Union Jack
stove pipe hat from last week. This she simply awards to the hare for
another lovely trail....and justly deserved. A note for the scantily
dressed one!
"Does anyone else have an award?"
Yes
and no. Beeflicker has an award from 2 weeks ago, the titty apron, but
he has forgotten it. But he does have a story but I can't remember it.
I think that we then moved onto the award of a run badge.
"Who
has attained the milestone of 600 runs? It is Piltdown Man. He
despatches his half at his usual leisurely pace accompanied, inevitably,
by "Get a life, life, life.....".
Then
it is the award for the best St George's Day fancy dress. The vote
went to the floor and Beeflicker received the loudest cheer for coming
as a knight crusader. He was awarded a half pint of beer but was
driving. Hence he nominated Slip-on-Me. Unfortunately for Ernie, he was
overheard to say, "She won't have any trouble downing that!". How
unchivalrous. As a result, as soon as Slip-on-Me had finished her half,
Ernie gets the last half. A note for the unchivalrous one.
Finally, a quick thank you to Beefy for paying for the Down-Downs.
Next week
Next
week's Hash is from The Union Inn, Plainmoor, Torquay. We have not run
from there before so this will be a novelty. I also have some doubts
as to whether it has a car park (it doesn't) so park where you can.
There may be food available, update later.
Our Hares are the Demon duo of Dastardly and Muttley (the Bird and the Pig).
On-On to next week. MP
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