Run Details

BH7 XMAS HASH - please fill out the correct spreadsheet if attending - refer to the 2025 Xmas Run webpage (under Hashing)

BH7 #2444 - John Harvey Tavern, Lewes

So, having planned out our Xmas Hash for some time, BH7 nonetheless found itself in Lewes twice in two weeks after Spreadsheet's 80th celebrations the week before. With the top floor of the John Harvey Tavern reserved for the hash, a wonderful turn-out of costumed hashers proceeded down the stairs and outside to an announcement that the hash route would be a mere 2.7 miles, not the 7 miles Bouncer misheard! 😀

The pack set off out of the pub, crossing the Ouse and turning immediately S onto Railway Lane before proceeding on Court Rd, through the alley to Pinwell Rd, Southover Rd and N on St Martin's Ln. A left (W) turn onto the High St would see a turn N at Pipe Passage looping back S on Westgate St, back over the High St and S down Keere St. A W run along Grange Rd would then turn S down to The Course / Potter's Ln and Southover High St. Here the FRB's would be offered an opportunity to add a little distance on, performing a counter-clockwise loop of the estate, looping back at Morley Close and back E on Cluny St before rejoining the main route S on Cockshut Rd and then E into Lewes Priory and a sip stop amongst the ruins. On Inn would be E / N back out to Station Rd then E along Lansdown Pl, Friar's Walk and the High St.

Before the rest of the re-hash though, a note of the missing prizes... This year there would be no Laurel & Hardy (Best Hash Couple) as Chaos was absent, no Bugle (Best Hash) after LTP forgot, and no jar of mud (Shiggiest Hash) as Gomi didn't even realise he had it and thinks it has been thrown away! There would also be no Burqa as (after some comments last year) it was deemed that it might now be too un-PC even for the hash! :S

And so, with everyone back in the pub and changed, and with all the starters served, the first of the evening's prizes would be awarded by Bouncer, with the obligatory DDs for hares Rebel and Jenny Greenteeth; DDs to a hash participation amended version of the Bonzo's "Jollity Farm" from an original idea by Rebel:-

We’re the Brighton Hash House Harriers, a different kind of running club
Every Monday you will find us meeting at a pub
Then heading out to follow a trail for just over an hour,
Shouting on on this way, whenever we see some flour.
In summer time by daylight or in winter in the dark
We go racing through the woods, up hills and in the park,

All the merry hashers they run around
Calling trail they’ve found
Some fall to ground
Then we all sing down down down
With the hash house harriers

All the merry hashers they run around (run around, run around)
Calling trail they’ve found (found found)
Some fall to ground (get up you clown)
Then we all sing down down down…

Next up a quick spot of Lost Property after one of Shirker Ninezing's dangly bells had been recovered on trail with a swift DD to "Jingle Bells". And lastly before the mains would be served a quick award of the Ship's Wheel from NN to International Hashers KIU and WB after their recognition for being only the 5th and 6th hashers to hash in 100 different countries, and DDs to "Get A Life".

A short respite from the awards would find the mains guided out by Little Swinger and NN (saving the pub's staff from shouting out hash names); however, with Cock Burns headed straight off after the mains, a quick award of the Pink Slippers for Best Newcomer would be presented by NN, commenting that she was a 'Walking Sip Stop'! DD to "10/9/8" before we had to bid her and the family a Merry Christmas. Next up, the Dangleberry Memorials - firstly the Alien Helmet awarded to Prince Crashpian for the Most Dangleberry Hash with the Trevor Arms, Glynde hash and return from Lewes by train; joining him, Angel (as Hash Cash) would be awarded the Hash Sash, making her the 'Hash Cash With The Sash'. DDs for both to "20 Toes".

Next up, Bouncer would award the Lost Hasher (lanyard and tracker) to Knightrider for somehow ending up in Lancashire 😀 Rebel would join him after being nominated for the Most Lost Hare after losing almost all of the pack during the Hollingbury hash with Jaws (#2416), being awarded the broken compass. And Peter Pansy would join the pair for the Most Hare-Brained Hasher (receiving a phallic bottle opener) for adding a Monday evening to his run group; DDs for all three to "Why were they born so beautiful".

Relieving Bouncer, Ride It Baby then called him straight back up to receive the Most Broken Hasher award (exhaust pipe) after he broken his leg during the first week of his and Angel's Oz trip; DD to "What A Knob!".

Onto statistically-driven awards, NN would then award the Longest Hash (Footpath Award) to LTP for his 13km hash (#2403) after checks, the Shortest Hash (Double-headed footpath sign) to On On Don for his mere 5.76km (with checks!) hash only a few weeks prior (#2441), Hilliest Hash (Straight Arm) amazingly to Rebel for his Hollingbury Hash (#2416) coming in at 425m on Strava, the Wettest Hash (Rubber Duck) to Oral Hooker (& Private Dancer, absent) for their swim-in-the-sea hash at Seaford, and the Golden Boots for the Most Hashes to Pompette (44 hashes) and PsyclePath (46 hashes); DDs for all to "This is your Down Down song".

After that gathering, a rest for NN as Bouncer would again take the reins, awarding Best Sip (Cheese Board) to Balinor & Dyke Diver, although it turns out we had missed them leaving and so the award will be handed over next time NN remembers to bring it along... Moving swiftly on, OH would be called back up, this time for the Bogeyman Memorial for the Best Outfit, having dressed up as a giant Ferrero Rocher; DD (nominated to LTP as OH driving) to "Miss Murphy".

Prince Crashpian would then take the stage to award Molly's Christmas Pudding to LS (nominated to NN as LS driving). DD to the tune of "The Happy Wanderer"

I love to go a' Hashing
Along the Downland tracks
And as I go a' Hashing
With my beer mug on my back
Hasheri, Hashera
Hasheri
Hashera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Drink it down, down, down, down, down.

Ride It Baby would then call back up NN and 'Little Singer' (see what she did there?), awarding them a pair of inflatable microphones in recognition of being another hash couple, with LS this time nominating Whose Shout; DD to a Whose Shout song:

T'was on the good ship Venus
You really should have seen us
The figurehead was a hasher in red
And the mast was the RA's... Down, down, down, down...
(apologies to Eskimo Nell)

And Shirker Ninezing would also be called back up, award 2 Nash Hash Mini Rugby Balls; DD to "Do Your Balls Hang Low?"

More then from NN, awarding Mudlark a musical carousel full of fudge for 'leading us all round in circles', be it as a hare or the hare-raiser. ML would then award a gift wrapped book to KIU, in recognition of his 200 marathons; the book? A Beginner's Guide to Running! 😀 And the Get A Life shoe would be awarded to Wilds Thing in recognition of his 300 marathons; DDs for all three to (of course) "Get A Life".

Nearly there, Rebel would then present another special award, this time to Knightrider; Rebel, it transpires, didn't realise that KR's nickname came from the (famous) 80s show of the same title, instead wondering if it came from the brand of condoms! No-one else had heard of these and didn't believe him, until he had managed to source a packet. He seemed a little disappointed that strawberry had been delivered instead of the requested banana flavour!

Closing out the evening's awards, NN would present a 2026 Harveys Calendar to 'Harveys Addict' LTP with DD to "He's a Hasher" and the Best Charge shoe to Half Moon in recognition of all her energy, with DD to "She's alright". And with that, resident DJ Psyclepath would take the stage, and the hash, into the early hours of the morning. Another great Xmas Hash! - Nasty Nips & Bouncer