Run	Date	Hare(s)	Description	MapRef	1:50000	1:25000	1:10000	More
928	2019-08-18 11:00	Prancer & Kinky	Westbourne Monks Hill Rec	SU755083

A morning of two halves, monsoon and chilly for the hares alone, then costa del scorchio as the Hashers arrive at the recreation ground where you can't play with your hard balls.

No visitors or newbies so nothing to note before the off except Spiderman now needs two Nordics to keep erect and avoid knee tremblers.

With doubts about washed out flour we were ushered North on the very overgrown FP over the common to the head of Woodberry Lane. Old Faithful and Pancsi for some reason chose to risk life and limb by checking a long way West on the busy Emsworth Common Road while the rest favoured the relative calm of the lane.

Here, the obvious tarmac proved false and then Dogwhistle sniffed out a trail, parallel but over, under and around countless fallen trunks in Shuffles Plantation until we broke out at the Sussex Border Path.

The Hares, being terrified of venturing into the bad lands of Hampshire were forced to take us North East on the long slog to Stansted Saw Mill. The predictable Fish Hook here caught Old Faithful, Pancsi, Bambi and a reluctant Dogwhistle.

With the mill at our backs we headed East through South Coopers Wood to the Garden Centre car park, along the way the well known lothario who is Old Faithful tried his best chat-up lines with a buxom lass whom he encountered, to little effect.

Heading South into The Groves, the front runners enjoyed the moist woodland path followed by a dusty flat thrash through the stubble that they arrived at a regroup at The Flintstones well ahead of the rest. To kill time Bambi engaged Spiderman in a debate on the B word, after only a short while it was obvious that they were Nordic poles apart.

That's about it, through the zinc plated Kissing Gate, over Aldsworth Common, then North past The Cricketers to reach the On-In after one hour and thirty five minutes on a long hot Hash.

At the circle we thanked the hares, and nearly censured Dogwhistle for poor fish hook observance, and Vixen for hanging on to the Hash-It for so long. The aforementioned was, in the end, presented to Prancer (a Hare) for misdirecting Pancsi (a JM) so as to lure him into running through a stream. It remains a mystery as to why a hasher of experience would believe a word of Hare-speech ?.

The pack returned to The Cricketers for the usual.

On – On ! Bambi

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