Run 739: Curry Mallet Village Hall

Venue: Curry Mallet Village Hall Car Park,
O/D The Bell, Curry Malletl
Hare: Brush Off
Hounds: Big Bird, Why Bother, DitW,
Dormouse, JB, Phantom, Liz,Tenzing, S’App,
Grasshopper, M’bongo, Dripped On,
Walkers: Bangkok, Ferret & P2L

Well it was a lovely evening and the going was good (dry but soft underfoot)
after some rain the day before. DitW, JB & Wam arrived in lovely new
matching running tops in soft cupcake shades of Orange, Pink and Turquoise .....
or so they thought until DitW thought perhaps they looked like a fruity, three
pack of condoms in orange, strawberry and mint flavours ......! Well, I never!
Off we set a merry band of hashers over the hills and far away and into a wood.
Here we were once again treated to some historic information about the old
canal. A one mile long tunnel used to exist there but has now been filled in. Liz
suggested that we should be renamed the Bridgwater Towpath Historic Hash
Harriers (not because of the sum of our ages but because of our interest in
historic sites..... I hasten to add).
Once in the middle of the wood, Brush Off admitted to us that he had got lost
while setting the run....... would we ever find our way out again or be lost in the
woods forever? He then produced the sweeties which made us fear even more
that this would be our final destination but fortunately after a few wrong turns:
On, on ..... we eventually found our way out!
Through long grass we went, over styles and across farmland (avoiding the
farmer with a shot gun ....... do they really detest hashers so much?). Wam
learnt from JB, a farmer’s daughter, all about the padlock thingies around the
necks of some cows in a field ...... they are programmed to accommodate each
cow’s feeding needs ..... very clever!!
After 5 fairly swift miles, we arrived back at the pub to find Bankok (still
recovering from pneumonia), P2L (suffering from cruel dentist treatment earlier
in the day) and Ferret (no excuse) enjoying a drink in the pub.
Thank you Brush Off for a very lovely run and sorry to hear you were in so much
trouble at home last week ..... but being male it was definitely your fault, you do
know that don’t you!