Hounds:- Bangkok, Ferret, Chris, Pink2Lips, Why Bother, Tenzing, Liz, Martini, Big Bird, Grasshopper, Dave, Gymslip, WAM, JB, DiTW’s, Justin, Marco.
On arrival, we found Why Bother and Pink2Lips wondering if they were in the right place, a very full car park but not a hasher in sight.
Two and on its wet and muddy!!! Well what did we expect?
After a few laps of North Petherton, Pink 2 Lips announced we had lost Why Bother, no one seemed bothered except her apparently he had the car keys.
We then got off road where we found the mud and some nicely chilled water, slipped and slid on the downhill bit with excited screeches (that was just the blokes) then merrily squelched around the fields, still slipping and sliding onto yet more very wet fields.
The regroup was after a check with an arrow to make the front runners go a bit further, but only Ferret tried to follow it with Why Bother remarking on how grumpy he was that night.
We had homemade minced pies at the regroup, Martini found someone to talk too over a Laurel hedge, before the pack charged off as the rain started to fall; well we wouldn’t want to get wet would we?
We set off along the road only to turn off onto a farm track where the choice was either to balance along the middle calf deep in mud or in the tyre tracks, knee deep in cold water, what a choice.
Bangkok remarked that this was the first time when running from North Petherton the run hadn’t gone into Kings Cliff woods, Brush Off not wanting to disappoint had actually gone in a little way, only to run out of flour and marking what he believed was a check back causing some of the pack to scuttle around trying to find an alternative route convinced it should go up and out onto the top road WRONG!!! It went back, then through more very wet fields and out opposite the car park.
Good hash Brush off.
