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, 24 August 2024

Run #2034 Monday 19th August

Circle up from Heatree Activity Centre, Manaton
 
With Pisswell
 
FLINTSTONES HASH
 
Who Wuz there?
 
Pisswell, Beefy, Piltdown man, Georgie Porgy, Checkmate, Leyton, Oscar, Beth, ManPig, Forrest, Smellie, Beeflicker, Satnav, Wet Johnny, Johnny (the Wet Jonny Imposter wearing matching coats), Runner bean, Peter, Ernie and Cory (grandson), Strap on, Gaffa, Goldfish, Cheesy Nipples, Chessy Helmet, Coldtits, Elisa, Jonathon, Miss Inn, Soapy, Melon Picker, Palmolive, Andy, Sarah, Wetfart, Artful Dogger.
 
(Hope that’s correct as I couldn’t see very well by the firelight, nor could anyone)
 
Circle:
In the absence of a GM, Piltdown Man welcomed hashers to circle around the fire pit in the middle of the round house at Heatree. Manpig bravely ran through hot smouldering coals to make room for others and we all smelt smoky pig from there on.
 
A young virgin was announced and dealt with in the usual way! Returnees Gaffa and Goldfish ( I think) were welcomed back, although there were others just too frightened of joining the inner circle.
Lurking in the dimsy light were also Cheesy Nipples and Cheesy Helmet, not seen since their award winning Sandridge Barton wine tour hash last year.
 
Hare raiser Smellie only has one date left for “the last day of the year”, Dec 30th, if anybody wants to lay a trail.
 
On to The hare:
 
Pisswell thanked those who had worn Flintstone outfits and invited them to the inner circle. As Smellie was as yet undressed, the winner would be decided later. A free grout ( Rugglestone currency) would be awarded to the best fancy dress, which could be exchanged for a pint for the winner.
 
Pisswell explained the normal 3 trails. She had forgotten her tablet of stone to read from, so made up some distances, each one longer than the other. She had got very cold and wet so although there were some checks this week, they were only one and on. After Cheerio Beerio’s great swim at the beach success, there would again be time for a quick dip, no swim wear required!
 
The hare had left her square wheeled bike available for hire but had decided to take her hastily made cardboard car with enamel plated steering wheel. (Petrol not yet invented!)
 
The hash left to an on-on chorus of yabbadabbadoo!
The trail:
 
 
📷
Yabba-dabba-doo!
Flintstones, at the round house
It’s the hash tonight for Teign valley
From the town of Heatree
Virgin ground wrote down in history
Circle in the Stone Age house we meet
Dressed up, now whose outfit can you beat?
When you’re with Teign valley
Have a yabba-dabba-doo time,
Best fancy dress time,
we’ll have a Flintstones time
…………
Lit up by the lights there
Pisswell (hare) will tell you all the way
All go to Heath-er-Combe
And then “make your choice”, what’s she will say
Walkers take a quick way if they like
Or bor-row the hare’s old square wheeled bike
Shorts go to Nats-worthy
Whilst the longs go up a steep hill
A bitter sweet pill
A Heathercombe steep hill
……………..
Pointless! You’ve the same place
Some more late as it is plain to see
Crossing the same road there
(Locals call it gate at Nats-wor-thy.)
Let’s run down the lane towards Jays grave
All will join to see her resting place
When you’re choosing splits there
Have a yabba-dabba chew time
A quick dip in time
A crunchy crisps old time!
…….
Walkers to the left there
Whilst the others look up Bowerman’s nose!
Shorts straight on to Blissmoor,
Whilst the longs go right up to his toes
Sneeze blows, Bowerman is full of snot
Blissmoor is now bog, with tors on top
On home to Heatree now
Have an on downs Rugglestone time
At Widecombe time
We’ll have a great old time!
We’ll have a gay old time!!!!
Yabaa-dabba-doo!
 
Out takes from the trail:
Coldtits arrived late and then got lost on the Heatree grounds before the start!
Wetfart had a lift up the first hill and then asked if the rest was all downhill!
The first hill for the longs was endless, causing Pisswell to wheel spin when she stopped to offer oxygen from her car!
 
The resulting downhill through a bog (in an eerie Dartmoor mist) was I imagine pretty hard core as the hare was pretty scared laying it. Even brave fire fighter Cheesy Helmet said he left deep skid marks!
Natsworthy gate seemed to go without incident but the quick dip did cause a little confusion! Kitty Jay turned in her grave as she hosted crisps, bread sticks, Doritos and a selection of dips, so why were hashers taking their clothes off? Beefy and Beeflicker had barely anything on!
 
The split at Jays grave was getting late. Most walkers could get off road to Cripdon Down South Tor and then home. shorts and longs went to varying views of Bowermans nose. Lovely to see some photos of the heather and gorse there. And sorry, I must apologise, but the maniac cloud burst earlier at that point, had caused the hare to climb down over steep rocks from Hayne Down North Tor and just shelter in Bowerman’s nasal passages (nasal hare) and not give a shit! ( meant to say that at the circle). So bit rubbish there.
 
Jonathan tried out Manaton road a few times (nice pub, the Kestor) and then decided to go through Blissmoor with everyone else. The hare had snipped away the brambles, flattened the bracken, hoovered the ticks, sponged the bog so it was quite easy in the oncoming dark!
 
Eventually, all returned by phone light but with firefighter Cheesy Helmet leading the rescue mission of Cheesy Nipples, Pisswell, Manpig and Elisa (super hashos), and rescuing Ernie and Cory, Coldtits, Jonathon and Forerst. (who was already at the pub I think!) Please let me know if this was correct. Hope I didn’t forget anybody! Is anyone still out there?
 
The down downs at the Rugglestone:
The latecomers came in to an empty pub! Had they all gone home? In fact, there was no room at the Inn and they had been offered a lowly outdoor shed for the miracle of all getting home in one piece!
 
Unfortunately, some hashers had chosen not to stay as their welcome had not been fitting of the importance of their mighty conquest! All jokes aside, I am really sorry about that.
 
The pub had provided free down downs though, although they took some time for the hare to obtain. Maybe that’s why the RAs Forrest and Manpig forgot to thank the pub for the beers and they wouldn’t have heard us anyway!
 
Manpig was an amazing songmeister but I can’t remember what we sang so I will make it up or miss it out.
 
First up was Beeflicker who had gone off piste into an angry farmer's field.
“Here’s to the piste taker, he’s so blue….”
 
Strap on had noted Beefy and Pisswell had swapped matching hash t-shirts. Beefy had said that he was “unable to pull it off without help!”
“Here’s to the pulled off….”
 
The hare, whose hash was “too dry”, “too much sun”, “too flat”, “too much swimming”, “too many graves”, or some thing like that, was given a down down. She asked if the longs were exhausted from the hills. Had they preferred it up? Or preferred it down? As there was a quick recovery from all involved, everyone appeared satisfied!
 
And then to the free pint for the best dressed. As Smellie was not in the running anymore, votes were given for Wilmur Coldtits, Caveman Beefy, Cavewoman Pisswell and then Forrest. Winning by the most decibels was Forrest, who looked great swinging a huge mallet and club and wearing a black wig and dead rabbit skin waistcoat! He not only won the grout for a free pint at the pub but awarded himself the remaining down down!
 
Before leaving, he amused us by the tale of Archangels missed down down from the week before. Apparently, whilst paddling his kayak (and offering his David Hasselhoffs lifesaving ability) at Cheerio Beerios hash and dip in the sea, he was so swept away by the skimpy bikinis and thongs that he mislaid his paddle. So he is now dobbed in and definitely up the creek without a paddle!
 
Next week: Beefys hash at middle car park at Trendlebeer down, with the on down at The Dolphin at Bovey Tracey (That’s Bovey, Shitfaced)
 
On on to next week or ….
Yabbadabbadoo!
Yabbadabbadoo!

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