Run 788 - Wam! The Chapel, Cotford st Luke

Hare: WAM!

Hounds: Gent Caller, Tenzing, Baby Spice, Chubby Checker, Dog Plucker, Phantom, Bigbird, Martini, Why Bother, Pink2Lips, DitW, Just Bull.

The 3 witches arrived on their wheely broomsticks just as the rain did, but that didn’t faze the dirty dozen, or so they became later on!

Two and on we were told and beware the horses.Off we ran through the park area, a group of onlookers giving us a clap as we passed them, coming out onto the access road and onto a stile where some misguided individual had pinned a note telling walkers that poison had been laid  on the path, they had also attempted to obliterate it, but as their walk was only a short one we were soon back on flour. At this point in the hash Why Bother was leading us all, a great transformation from the previous week when on the last downhill stretch back to the cars his knees hurt so much I thought we were going to have to take it in turns to carry him!!The trail was flat and fast, taking us along field edges to Wick Farm then across to the steam railway line with a sneaky hard right turn to go over the Milverton road and towards Pontispool farm.  This was where our hare had battled with the young horses, but they had been moved into another field by the time we got there.      I’d had a feeling that we were going towards WAM’s house but she wasn’t letting on, though after some more running that’s where we all ended up. WAM had made a birthday cake for DitW, whose ????? birthday was the following day, so we all had a piece of cake and a drink and sang Happy Birthday to DitW.Grudgingly, we continued on the trail, still fast and flat, but the rain had stopped and a few fields later and almost before we knew it we had reached our starting point at the Chapel.It was a very enjoyable run, though I didn’t much enjoy the nettles, and with cake as well!Thank you WAM.