Run 765: Brush Off The Harvest Moon, North Newton

Hare   Brush OffHounds: Phantom, Bigbird, WAM, TomTom, Pink2Lips, Why Bother, Martini 

A small select group of hashers met at the Harvest Moon... a strange place... but more of that later!
The hare told us to beware of the killer shetland ponies that nearly had his dog for dinner but other than that the usual two and on.
The first bit of excitement was when P2L spotted a distant christmas tree adorned with lights, but when we got closer it was an old high viz jacket hanging from a nail and reflecting our head torches....JB reminded us that it is nearly christmas after all.  Wam was excited about the prospect of snow but Why Bother put the dampeners on that in his usual cheery way!
On we went across wet and muddy fields and along some equally wet and muddy lanes eventually stopping at the first re group.  It was decided that we would wait for the next regroup for our sweeties as it was rather a cold drafty spot so we set off again across a particularly soggy field.   We arrived in lane opposite Maunsel house which reminded Wam! of the recent national newspaper story of the owner who had spotted a Big Black Cat prowling around his estate.  We were now on the lookout for dangerous cats and ponies.  Luckily the cat didn’t show up and the ponies ignored us.
We had a lovely regroup by  Maunsel Lock before trotting down the towpath (with several fishhooks that were ignored by  all except P2L and JB), over a few fields and back in the way we went out.
Into the pub which was filled with men.... not a woman in sight except the barmaid. It felt a bit like we’d been dropped into the Deep South and  I also think we may have alarmed them a bit by doing our usual strip and change in the car park, the smokers certainly got a eye full....that will teach them smoke.