Run Details

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#2438 BN6 Bar Hassocks – Despite the website being down for half the day, restricting our usual late signers from adding their names, and possibly preventing others from finding out the location, a good crowd mustered for Nasty Nips chalk talk. Usual stuff, about 7.4km, was the gist of it, and off we set up Wilmington Close to the Banjo for several quick checks across Adastra Park to Ockley Lane, then almost back on ourselves to cross Grand Avenue and head into the new housing estate. Picking up the top of Woodsland Road north, where the walkers were spotted heading the opposite direction, we actually made it through the new tunnel after a failed attempt by Prince Crashpian last year, however the ‘Oops’ on the ground led to a fenced off path so back we went for a slippy slidy route through the trees. Foiled earlier, hare was clearly heading for the other tunnel and through to Friars Oak where we crossed the London Road and into another new estate on the former golf course. True trail joined Belmont Lane and the diagonal path for more messing around Hassocks Gate eventually crossing back on to Stanford Avenue and on inn past the station; while yours truly lost marks, cut across the rec and up to Stone Pound lights, then along Keymer Road to find and follow trail backwards reuniting with pack for the on inn (just in case there was an unannounced sip!).

Despite it being almost a year since our last visit, when we said farewell to One Erection, the pub were very generous with a great selection of down down thirds (including stouts, pales and bests) for the circle up, where the first bit of business was to relay the sad news that Tony Coe aka Silver Fox lost a long battle with cancer last Thursday. Tony completed 179 hashes walking with his wife Blonde Vixen, and they frequently hosted the Christmas sip stop. Our deepest condolences to Jane, the family, and also to his very good cycling friend Psychlepath, as well as everyone else who remembers him. Rik noted that the majority of the pack had actually run past their house on tonight’s trail.

Moving on, the pack were asked if they thought the trail was nice, only to offer a collective groan when RA reminded them that it was actually Nasty, so the villain was called up to down to ‘He’s the meanest..’*, mainly because YT found himself hitting a FH twice from an advanced position ahead of the pack before getting lost! NN confessed to having attempted to recreate an old Dangleberry route, unsuccessfully for two main reasons: firstly he had no real idea where they’d gone previously, and secondly, due to the footpath closure which saved us from a potential immersion in a fast flowing and deep stream! Factoids are NN’s modus operandi in the circle so it seemed apt to include the snippet, apropos nothing, that this is week 45, being the square root of 2025, although it failed to garner the enthusiasm of the pack. Next up was a first time hasher, Julie G, who jokingly announced at the beginning that she wasn’t going to wa*k as she’d been removed from the sheet (Julie G also being Come Again’s muggle name, which confused your scribe!). It transpired that she’d kept her word, staying at the bar necking G&T’s, so declined the beer, and it took Local Knowledge’s generosity in buying her another G&T to get her up for the ‘Virgins’ song. Honestly, as our most widely travelled hashers, you’d have thought her sister Wildbush & KIU would’ve explained hash protocol! Next up were a couple of proxy down downs as Yogi celebrated his 500th parkrun at just shy of 87 years of age, beating Whose Shout in the process. Well, never let the truth etc. as he’d actually been set off at the front of the field so that everyone could wish him the best as they passed, but in his absence tonight up came WS. The website outage was suspected to be Lily the Pink’s doing, but another no show meant KIU as webfart taking his beer, both being in the wrong place at the wrong time drank to ‘Alright’, along with Mudlark who was thanked for sending along the rum for the Trafalgar toast a fortnight back (Trafalgar hash is his baby, but he was in the wrong place too!). And finally, NN was called again after pondering where a number of hashers were heading, having forgotten he’d set a fishhook there! As a driver he nominated WS, but there was one beer left for which nominations were sought from the floor. A loud ‘not Bouncer’ from Hash Gomi had Hash Gomi being called for reporting the RA’s absence on trail but he was also driver, so nominated Mudlark, who nominated Bouncer (anyway!) to down to the stupid song. 

Lots of admin then occurred before the toast, with Ride-It, Baby announcing possibly Hangleton Manor next week, Mudlark taking a video to send to Knightrider, and an invitation to all to join Angel’s 400th parkrun in Shoreham on Saturday, also her 200th different event! Another great hash! Bouncer

* it occurred that not too many are familiar with this widely sung hash number so here are the lyrics:
He’s the meanest, he sucks the horses penis, he’s the meanest, he’s the horses arse.
Ever since he found it, all he does is pound it, he’s the meanest, he’s the horses arse. Down down…