City Hash 2005-2009.  Notes from the archives

I recently had the opportunity to trawl through CH3 hash cash archives for 2005 – 2009, thanks to Offie for keeping them in his loft and Parsons Nose who gave them to me, since neither of them were bothered with a dusty pile of…well rubbish, or so they thought.  Here is a quick summary of what I found.

There were accounts, rudimentary lists in Excel, which frankly are probably good enough for you lot.  There is also a CD but as I don’t have a slot to stick it in its not much use to me.  And anyway, who is interested?

Third party liability insurance was carried in those days (still?  If so, CH3 is the only London hash to do so I believe).

Hash Cash worked from a printed list of names, based on an .xls spreadsheet updated each week.  We used to be interested in run counts, until another hash cash in 2014 or so (oops that was when I was GM) lost all the records. 

Names are getting fouler but there were plenty of nasty ones then too.  Who remembers Pablo the Goat Fu**er? But also plenty who are still around today (take your pick).

Oh, and £160 in actual dirty £10 and £20 notes!  Thanks, I’m off to the pub now.  (These will be returned to H3 funds but may have to be laundered via the bank as I don’t think they are legal tender any more!)

The main events

CH3 1000^th weekend took place in September 2007, a beautiful autumn weekend in Streetly and Goring where I remember sitting in the garden at the youth hostel while the pack were on trail because I was injured, though not enough to miss dancing the night away in the local village hall.  Lofty’s dog Mickey was GM that year, but he got Blunder to do the barking for him.

In 2008 CH3 joined Hooray Henley 21^st Birthday celebrations, camping by the Henley course.  Cost £70 covered camping, breakfasts, luxury picnic, debutantes ball and the usual drinks and circles.  But don’t try to sneak in at the last minute or it would cost £200!

Venturing further afield in 2008, CH3 invaded invaded France for our 1066 run and went to Lille in November.  Eurostar tickets included!  With our regular trail on Saturday, Catch the Hare took over on Sunday.  I believe the French thought we were mad.  Plus ca change…

Offie must have stood in as RA from time to time. You can see one of his hand-written lists of charges here.  RAs handwriting has not improved over the years – but at least in those days they could write and did not have to interpret their random notes typed into a phone.

I could have written this about Offie’s hashing year because there are also souvenirs of numerous other events.  In addition to those above there were:

• W&NK hash flyers
• UK Nash Hash (August 2007, Towcaster races, the 007 themed one)
• Eurohash (July 2007, London)
• Ebley Full Moon Nash Hash (June 2007, New Forest)
• Blunder, Gusset and Three Times birthday pub crawl (May 2007)
• Various SnORTED trail flyers

And not listed, but sure he was there, the Hash touch Rugby (another Blunder promotions event) at the Old Alleynians, which sadly has since faded away.

So many events that if Offie was attending them all, and hashing with those hashes and CH3, I doubt he ever had time to be sober.

I also tried to put together a receding hare line but there are a lot of gaps(link here).  If anyone has information to fill those gaps I would be happy to aggregate.  The hash should always look forward, but we can look back as well.

On ON

Mouthwash
15.8.24

PS: most of the papers have now been disposed of but those of some interest have been scanned for posterity.