Hash #9

Tuesday 20th March
Location: Riverford farm (eventually!)

I picked Karen up and we set off to Riverford Farm, (not the shop) and found the shop straight away, then drove down a road, stopped near a car, the chap inside wound down his window and said are you looking for the hash. We then followed each other around for the next 15 minutes or so. Karen asked someone for directions and we discovered we were at the field kitchen, but we couldn't find any hashers cars, we lost the chap who we later found out was called Vertigo. Very nice chap too! We drove back to the shop, drove down into a farm yard with private no entry on it, then decided to follow our gut instincts and drove back to the main road, found the sign with Riverford Organic lorries on it and followed our noses.
At 7.30 approximately we drove into the car park full of cars but no hashers in sight. We deliberated and decided that we did not want to be left out so we walked around trying to find the start of the hash, eventually found a blob of flour and we were off. We managed to get quite far until we ran out of flour, then we struggled, crossed a couple of fields, relocated the flour, listening out for fellow hashers.
We finally heard them in the distance in the opposite direction to where we were going and then we hit the road, we made an executive decision to go back via the road as time was ticking on and we didn't want to miss out on the lovely food. But which way to go, do we follow the road to the left and take the lorry trail home or do we go right and go down the narrow lanes back to the back entrance of the field kitchen. We chose right and down the hill we went, Karen dropped her torch and then her mobile phone, round a corner, over a bridge which I didn't remember driving over but on we kept. Then we came into the hamlet which we recognised. Then we saw the signs for Riverford farm and the tractors and lorries and we were back.
We got back in time for some lovely pasta and were a little disappointed to find out that noone had thought of a name for us so no down downs tonight.
It's our tenth hash next week so hopefully someone will have some inspiration somewhere along the way!
A bit of a strange night tonight, but good fun just the same, we did a mini hashlet and some orienteering and Karen is going to bring her map and compass for the next time...so till then...keep safe and On On !