The Words for TVH3 Hash No 2117 on Mon, 23 Feb 2026
Circle at Trendlebere Down, Middle Car Park, TQ13 9LT.
Hare: Beefy
Weather - Not raining & actually dry! Positively balmy at 12.5 C!!
For starters - everyone found the car park! Always a good start for the Circle.
Present
were: Beefy, Pisswell, Psycho, Missing, Woodlend, Tongue & Groove
& dog, Piltdown, G'Orgy & Choca, Ernie, Strap-on, Manopause, Wet
Johnny, Pocket Rocket, Coldtits, SMEllie, Beeflicker, Melon Picker
(Soapy is not well tonight), Well-Hopped, Big End & dog. Total 19.
Apologies if I have missed anyone.
I
missed part of the Circle (fumbling for something in my car) but
SMEllie was still looking for Hares for March - please speak to her in
the pub after or let her know if you can lay a trail. No Hares, no
trail!
Bossy Pisswell volunteered Coldtits to do the words by asking her to show her hand if she was there. Cheeky mare!
Over
to the Hare, Beefy, who announced Walkers 2.5 miles, Shorts 3.2-3.5
miles, Longs 5.5 miles? Marked in flour. Beware X's on left (not
good), X's on right (good). Got that, everyone? Lots of checks, a fish
hook, X's and some splits? Beware some "technical bits" later. Plus a
Sweety Stop - hurrah! Beefy had also seen 5 or so Deer earlier.
From
the car park, ON ON across the road into the off-road hinterland. A
wide level path brought us to the Fish Hook, first 5 to turn back on
themselves and re-join - probably 10 did! Onwards uphill to a section
through woodland track, complete with hooting Owls to add to the spooky
evening.
Next
a split, Walkers straight on, Longs and Shorts to right. Found myself
at the back of the Shorts after the hilly bits (I had not run since
early Dec due to suffering repeated virus infections), with Pocket
Rocket, who was also suffering. His torch had failed, so loaned him my
spare, then he decided at the next split to take the Walkers trail and
back to car park. I realised then that my Strava had not been
recording, so I wasn't sure where I had come from and where I was going.
I thought better of pursuing the Shorts as a Walker on my own in the
big dark wood, so I eventually set off after Pocket Rocket but never saw
him again until the On Down.
Somehow
found my way to Beefy at the Sweety Stop, next to the Charcoal Seat
(see photo) - great selection of sweets, thank you. We were joined by a
few other Hashers including Ernie, Strap-On, Missing, SMEllie,
Woodlend, Tongue and Groove and dog but where were the Longs? There was
an interpretation board for the Charcoal production history but Beefy
didn't seem to know what it was all about.
After
the SS, it was downhill through the woods to a complicated junction of
paths and I lost the trail here. Tried left and right and only found
X's. Eventually, Ernie and Strap-On arrived and we found the way back
up the hill again, where there was a (new?) back-check we hadn't seen
earlier? We broadly stuck together (Ernie is such a gent with the
ladies, isn't he?) and were joined by Woodlend, Tongue and Groove and
dog, who helped check the many checks.
The
woodland paths levelled out a bit and we crossed a lovely bridge over
the stream (avoiding the flour that had been placed to tempt us into the
stream).
I
think some never found the SS, like SMEllie, who was probably led
astray by Pisswell, who shamefully short cut back to the pub. Beefy was
not impressed later!
Eventually,
coming up to 9pm, we all found the welcome On Home and the car park.
I'd recorded 1.69 miles from the SS, so it was probably 3 miles or so in
total for my Short and Walkers combined trail. SMEllie had got back
from the Short 10 minutes earlier than me and was busy in the car
catching up on her messages. Probably still trying to find Hares for
March!
We
exited right out of the car park and 2 miles or so down the road, we
arrived at the On Down, the welcoming Kestor Inn, car park full, so
parked on the roadside. Its always so dark here as no street lighting
but the small moon crescent and some stars were shining at last tonight,
adding to the misty / mizzlely evening glow. You had to be there to
appreciate this on a mild February evening after the wet winter we've
had!
In
the pub, only Beeflicker was tucking into the Chilli, which looked
good. Once everyone arrived, Pisswell officiated with the Awards and
Beefy generously provided the six Down Down beers and a water, thank
you!
First
award was a 600 runs badge to G'Orgy P'orgy, after an amazing 17 years
hashing with TVH3. Next up was a 400 runs badge for SMEllie and a 200
runs badge for Strap-On. All well deserved supporters of TVH3 and Down
Downs taken together to a rendition of "Get A Life, Get A Life, Life,
Life ...".
Then
it was time to ambush Pisswell with a birthday award for yesterday with
all the right notes in the wrong order. Amazing how she found a
birthday hat in her bag of tricks! Always prepared, I'd say.
She
had the Jester hat to award and after some "domestic discussion" with
Beefy, this went to the Hare, for pulling out all the Hash trail laying
tricks of Fish Hook, Ha Ha, X's, checks, back checks, etc., used to make
our unique trail tonight plus a SS. Thank you and you did it all on
your own, laying some 8 plus miles for our pleasure.
For
anyone interested, this area is a rare UK temperate rainforest - see
Bovey Valley Woods managed by Woodland Trust Wood Group: https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/.../bovey-valley-woods/
ON On to next week at The Ten Tors Inn, Exeter Road, Kingsteignton, TQ12 3NP, with Hare, Beeflicker.
(Words by Coldtits, press-ganged by cheeky Pisswell, with a perspective from a tailender Hasher, for a change.)
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