A WARM WELCOME FROM TVH3

Welcome to the Teign Valley Hash House Harriers of glorious South Devon. You are guaranteed a warm welcome and a great hash experience. We are the 'Party Hash' and we run from pubs all over Torbay, Dartmoor and the Teign Valley every Monday evening at 7.15pm. Our trails are marked with flour, chalk or sawdust and take in woodland, streams, byways, bridle paths and rolling countryside. We cater for all abilities, you needn't worry about keeping up, a leisurely walk with others or a good paced run if you're fit - you choose. The run duration is anything from 30 minutes to an hour and the distance is normally between 3-6 miles depending on whether you decide to take a short or long trail. Your first run is free, so come along and give it a go! After the run hashers enjoy a drink and food in the pub. On many occasions, the pub will lay on a 'Hash Menu', food specially for hashers.

WHAT TO EXPECT AT YOUR FIRST HASH

Starts soon after 7:15 pm each Monday.
The Grandmaster will gather the hash together in a circle and welcome Virgins & Visitors to TVH3 and inform the group of pertinent news or upcoming events.
Hares will announce details or the trail, number of long and short splits and regroups.

Down-Downs - sometimes at the circle but usually in the pub after the run. Hashers and harriets (lady hashers) have a half pint and under age hashers have a soft drink or water. If you are driving, just ask the RA for water.

A Down-Down is a means of punishing, rewarding, or merely recognizing an individual for any action or behavior. Once awarded, the downdown must be drunk without pause, otherwise the RA may take action!

Individuals may be recognized for outstanding service, or for their status as a visitor or newcomer.

Down-Downs also serve as punishment for misdemeanours real, imagined, or blatantly made up.

Such transgressions may include: wearing new shoes, pointing with a finger, or the use of real names rather than hash names.

Hash Names

The use of real names (nerd name) during an event is discouraged, and members are typically given a new "hash name," usually in deference to a particularly notorious escapade, a personality trait, or their physical appearance.

Members are named after attending the hash on several occasions or if something noteworthy occurs to prompt a naming.

Other hashers may share stories or observations about the individual, with the final name being chosen by general consensus from all suggestions put forward by the hash.

NEWCOMERS TO THE HASH
Completely new to hashing? Don't know what to expect? Worried, shy or nervous? You needn't be as all newcomers or virgins as they are known, will receive a warm welcome. When the hashers are called to make a circle - about 7:15 pm each Monday, the Grand Master will welcome all hashers and after various notices about forthcoming events etc are dealt with, he will ask if there are any visitors from other hashes or virgins present. You will be asked to come forward and be introduced to the hash. A tip to remember, don't wear new trainers as these are frowned upon by the RA (Religious Advisor) and will incur a sprinkling of flour over them. That's all there is to it and you can then step back and enjoy the run and the social get together after in the On Down (the pub). Whatever your pace, there are certain to be others who will keep you company along the trail. Walk, jog or run - it's up to you.
Hashing is all about making friends and having fun, so just turn up any Monday and have a go.

Saturday 27 July 2024

Ausewell that ends well!

The Words for 22nd July 2023

from Ausewell Cross, near Buckland-in-the-moor.

Hare: Pisswell
 
Who wuz there: Piltdown man, Georgie Porgie, Wigwam, Mrs Sheen, Satnav, Soapy, Melon Picker, Zoot, Hotlips, Beeflicker, Cheerio Beerio, Forrest, Manpig, Squeaky bum, Rodger the dodger, Big End, Well hopped, Miss Inn, Shitfaced, Justin, Strap on, Strap dancer, Bobbieball, Fukarwe, Coldtits and Beefy (better late than never!) Ernie and his grandson Corie, Plonker, Runner bean, Eliza and her son Devon, Speedo (self invited and dropped off by Dad- Speedo pop!).
 
The circle:
Shitfaced welcomed returnees and newcomers. There was a short disagreement about who had invited a guest and could claim points for the Groomers award. The virgins were then anointed in flour as per protocol.
 
No Smellie and trails all pretty booked up.
 
Manpig said that Hat rack, a former hasher has recently lost his wife. Our condolences to the family.
The hare then discussed the scoff and sold off most of the remaining meals she had booked. She explained the trail as per usual woffle.
 
There were four trails. The dog trail needed humans to be kept on a lead, as the hare had seen two deer and there were nesting peregrine falcons in the valley below. A permit had been obtained from fountain forestry and a gate unlocked, to help prevent jumping dogs. Another gate would provide an alternative to a stile.
 
The walkers had a choice of two simple trails. ( in retrospect, ha ha!!)
 
The longs were about 6.5miles, but two avoidable loops at the splits would each cut off a mile, making the shorter result a better short trail.
 
There was a mobile sweetie stop by van as Pisswell had already run 10 miles.
 
The trail:
Tricky song, play it as you sing along if you can!
Boney M . - Rivers Of Babylon (Lyrics)
youtu.be
 
From the rivers near Buckland
By the rivers above the Dart
We circled up
Which way we went
To see commandments at Beacon.
By Buckland-in-the-moor
Are Ausewell rocks
You went up there
If you wanted more running.
Through the trees, hare
Hurried us away to Buckland bridge
Through trees, kept off the road
Guess what was in the pisspot
As we stopped for hash cake.
Then the split came
Into the woods and behind the church
If you were on the long.
No stopping to take a chocolate
There’s no quaint cottage box.
Twiddly bit
From the directions from the hare
And the dedication to get there
Virgin ground, permit came right
Here tonight.
Then we climbed up to the rocks
and the Buckland Beacon commandments
Not acceptable was the height,
Climbed tonight
When the GM stamped his staff
rocks split in two
The words revealed
More complicated than Manpig’s!
By this stage all went there
We all bowed down
Yeah, we wept
Whilst we read and recovered.
Twiddly bit
By the rivers of blood and tears
Scratches from gorse
Ye ah, been steep
But grassy track to Ausewell
So we headed to Welstor rock
Jumped wall with stile
We ran “on down”
To the Silent Whistle.
 
The outtakes:
The walkers were lost in about 5 minutes! Piltdown and Georgie Porgie were retrieved in a field, and then admitted to calling out a check back, when in fact a simple cross had been laid to avoid the walkers going left (into someone’s private field). Turn right and there was the trail!
 
She directed them up past the recently fallen tree, she’d pulled aside, so they then went up and missed the 10 commandments for a second time!
 
Pisswell returned to the start to find a little team of walkers having a picnic. She joined them for a while, giving up rounding up the injured, and instead giving them more sustenance and a chance to make up a plausible story!
 
Miss Inn was just down the road at the entrance to Beacon cottages. Others joined her including Shitfaced, who seemed exhausted and said he had been doing a lot of swearing with Pisswells name in the middle! In response, Pisswell sent him up the track, shouting go left, when in fact she meant right!
 
Heading down the road, Pisswell found more people at her main original sweetie stop plan. Hash cakes were on offer, Ausewell or Welstor rock cakes. Pisswell had made her own brew in the tea pisspot! Apologies to all the hashers who had been through the empty SS at Buckland bridge. (walkers fault delaying her!) The chocolate box cottages were minus the chocolates, which were also offered from the van.
 
By the return journey, most people were loaded with rocks (cakes), chocolate and Piss-cider to renter the woodland at Beacon cottages and begin the steep ascent to Buckland beacon.
 
Lots of moans later, some people did actually see the 10 commandments stones at the beacon! Though a few didn’t, no one was lost in the mist up there and the descent down from Welstor rocks was a lovely grassy track to the road.
 
The down downs
These took place at the Silent Whistle in Ashburton. Despite injury, Dodgy Forrest and his knee were persuaded to stay and RA.
 
He thanked the pub for the beer and asked if there were any awards.
 
Beefy awarded the hashit shirt to Piltdown man for confusing all the walkers and leading them astray. He drank to “ Hold it your hand, Mrs Murphy”.
 
The hare was moaned at for…too much shiggy, too many river crossings and mainly “too flat”. She drank her down down to “ Why was she born so beautiful…”
 
Wigwam and Mrs Sheen had a romantic double down down. Having happily been led astray as walkers, they then introduced the new “pretend to get lost and have a picnic instead route!” They drank to “Here’s to nitpickers, they’re so blue…” or something. (I can’t remember and so made that up!)
The water down down was left untouched.
 
Next week: Ernie and Strap-on at the Court Inn, Abbotskerswell. On on from Pisswell. X
Boney M . - Rivers Of Babylon (Lyrics)

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