Hares – Tablewhine and Ryde
This week’s run will be from The castle Inn, South Ealing, W5 5EU Map Link. The nearest station is South Ealing tube and there will be a trail of P arrows from there to help you find this pub, the run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours.
Hares: Pope and Reach
Our first run of 2026 will be on New Years Day from The Bear pub, Paddington 29 Spring St, Tyburnia, London W2 1JA Map Link. The nearest station is Paddington and there will be a P trail from there to help you find this pub, leave the station by the Elizabeth Line exit to pick up the P -trail to the pub. This will be will be joint with London Hash and EELS and it will start from the pub at the irregular time of 1500 hours and they are expected to store our bags for its duration. Not sure if there will be a drink stop, but bring a collapsible re-usable cup if you have one, just in case.
Hare: Kenny
This week’s run will be from The Drayton Court Hotel, 2 The Avenue, London W13 8PH Map Link. The nearest station is West Ealing mainline station and there will be a P trail from there to help you find this pub, the pub is also accessible from Ealing Broadway Tube and Mainline, but will not be P-trailed from there. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and they will store our bags in the hotel luggage store for its duration. There will be a drinks stop! So bring a collapsible cup if you have one.
Hare – Wacker
This week’s run will be from The Windermere, Windermere Ave South Kenton HA9 8QT Map Link . The nearest station is South Kenton on the Bakerloo and Lioness Lines, this is an easy transfer at Willesden Junction for anyone coming from Richmond or Clapham Junction areas. There will P trail from the station to mark the short distance to the pub. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 Hours. This will NOT be a Red Dress run, so no red dresses please. There will be FRB and SCB options on the run. There will be no drink stop as there will be food back at the pub. This run will act as an overflow run for the official, Nash Hash Red Dress (see below) and there could be a significant number of visitors attending due to the proximity to the UK Nash Hash event over the Bank Holiday weekend, so we are requesting that anyone planning to come to this run pre-registers, so that the pub landlord can plan the catering and ensure that is enough beer on tap to satisfy a horde of thirsty hashers. If you are coming on this run pre- register by using This Link, by Wednesday night at the latest please.
Hare Airhead.
This week’s run will be from The Woodlands Tavern, 29 St John’s Road, Isleworth. TW7 6NY Map Link
The nearest station is Isleworth and there will be a P trail from there to the pub, The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and they usually provide somewhere for us to store our bags for its duration.
Hares: Cocaine Charlie and Cock Doctor.
Pub: The Roebuck
Station: Fulwell.
This week’s run will be from The Roebuck, 72 Hampton Rd, Teddington, Hampton TW12 1JN Map Link . The nearest station is Fulwell, on the mainline from Waterloo, and there will be a trail of chalk P arrows from there to help you find this pub. the run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and there will be somewhere to store bags for its duration..
Hare: Kenny
This week’s run will be from The Foresters, 2 Leighton Rd., London W13 9EP Map Link. the nearest station is West Ealing, on the Elizabeth Line, and there will be a trail of chalk P arrows from there to help you find this pub, which is also accessible from Northfields Tube station. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of of 19.15 hours and they will store our bags behind the bar for its duration.
Hare – Bhopal
This weeks run will be from The Chancellors, 25 Crisp Road, Hammersmith, London, W6 9RL Map Link. There will be a P-trail from the Hammersmith & City, Piccadily and District Line Stations. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours . World-famous pizzas may be ordered before the run. Hashers are advised to bring torches and cups. There will be a drink stop so bring your collapsible cups, if you have one.
Hare – Sir Humpsalot
This week’s trail will be from The Royal Oak, 13 Richmond Rd, Twickenham TW1 3AB (Map Link). The nearest station is Twickenham and there will be a trail of P arrows from there to help you find this pub. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and there will be bag storage for its duration, but as always, please leave valuables at home. Torches will be required, and bring your collapsible cups as well, for a drink stop!
Hare – On Your Back
This week’s run will be from The Duchess, 320 Goldhawk Rd, London W6 0XF (Map Link). The run will start at the usual time of 7:15, and the pub will store our bags (Possibly secure, but unconfirmed: as usual, please do not bring valuables) for the duration. It is unlikely that the hare will take the trail through any parks without lighting, as most will be shut due to the time of year, however torches likely still be useful. There will be a P trail from nearby Stamford Brook District Line station.
Hare – On Your Back
This week’s run will be from The Pilot, 56 Wellesley Road, Chiswick W4 4BZ Map Link . There will be a trail of chalk p-arrows from the nearest station, Gunnersbury (District Line, and Overground between Richmond and Stratford). The run will start rom the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and the pub will store our bags for its durations.
This run number celebrates the year of the Hare’s birth. Unless we recruit some very young hashers in the very near future, this will be the last time this ever happens.
There will be a drink stop, so please bring your collapsible cups.
Loads of live music throughout the day all over Brentford, with plenty of street food stalls and a plethora of good pubs. Join the Urbane Foxes at the Six Bells from 8:30pm to round off your evening with a selection of rock and pop favourites from 60’s to the present day.
Hares – Cock Doctor and Cocaine Charlie
The run this week will be from The Pilot, 56 Wellesley Road, Map Link. The nearest station is Gunnersbury, on the Richmond branch of the District Line. Leave by the back entrance of the station (turning right after the barriers) and turn right at the exit from the station to follow the footpath to where it meets Wellesley Road, then turn right; the pub is less than 150 metres on the left. There will be a trail of chalk P arrows from the station to help you find this pub. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and the pub will provide bags storage for it duration.
There will be seasonal drink stop, so you should bring your collapsible cups.
Hare – Pope
This week’s run will be from Ryan’s, 282 Northfields Avenue, W5 4UB Map Link . The nearest station is Northfields tube, on the Piccadilly Line and there will be a trail of chalk P arrows from there to help you find this pub. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and the pub will store our bags for its duration.
Hare – Love Deuce
This week’s run will be from The Gregorian, 96 Jamaica Road, SE16 4SQ Map Link. There nearest station is Bermondsey tube station on the Jubilee Line and there will be a trail of P arrows from that station to help you find the pub, which is just two minutes walk away. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and the Hare has booked a room for us where we can safely store bags for its duration.
Hare -KMA
This week’s run will be from the The Dukes Head, 42 The Vineyard, Richmond TW10 6AN Map Link. The nearest station is Richmond and there will be a trail of chalk P arrows from the back exit of this station, onto Lower Church Road, to help you find the pub. the run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and the pub will store our bags for its duration. Bring a torch, and a collapsible plastic cup if you have one, because there will be a drink stop.
Hare – Kenny
This week’s run will be from the Rack and Tenter, 45 Moorfields, Moorgate, London EC2Y 9AE. Map Link. The nearest station is Moorgate, on the Circle, Hammersmith and City, Metropolitan, and Northern lines. There wil be a trail of chalk P’s from the station to the pub. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours. There will be a drink stop so please bring a collapsible cup. Please contact the hare if you would be prepared to act as a bag sitter in the pub.
Hare – Mop
This week’s run will be from the Dukes Head, The Vineyard, Richmond, TW10 6AZ Map Link. The nearest station is Richmond, tube and mainline, and there will be a trail of chalk P arrows from the back exit from this station ,onto Lower Church Road, to help you find the pub. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and the pub will provide an area for us to leave our bags for its duration. Bring a torch, it will be essential, and a collapsible cup, if you have one, because there will be a drink stop.
Hare – No Fore Play
Our last run before Christmas will be from The Candlemaker pub,136 Battersea High Street, SW11 3JR Map Link. The nearest station is Clapham Junction. When leaving the station do so via the Grant road exit, this can only be accessed using the underpass and is on the North side of the station. There will be a trail of chalk P arrows from there to help you find this pub. The run will start from the pub at our usual 19.15 hours. The pub will provide bag storage. There will be a drink stop on trail.
On On and a Merry Christmas to you all.
P.F.
Hare – Rambo
This run will be from Ryan’s 282 Northfield Avenue W5 4UB Map Link. The nearest station is Northfields Tube on the Piccadilly line and there will be a trail of chalk P arrows from there to help you find this pub. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and the pub will store our bags for its duration. The run will end back at the pub, the Hare having decided that it is too cold for an A to B. Rambo’s trails tend to be “adventurous” so bring a torch, also a cup as there will be a drink stop.
Hares – Smart Arse & Charlatan
The run will be from The Eagle, 250 Ladbroke Grove, London W10 5LP map link. The nearest station is Ladbroke Grove Tube on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines and there will be trail of chalk P arrows from there to help you find this pub. Buses 23, 52, 70, 228 and 295 stop at St. Charles Square very close to the pub. The run will start from the pub at our usual 19.15 Hours. The Hares have arranged bag storage at the pub and a reserved area for the Hash to enjoy the selection of three real ales that the manager has promised will be available, and there will be a drink stop towards the end of the trail. Bring a torch as some of the trail will be off road.
With the lifting of many Covid restrictions registration for West London runs is no longer mandatory but is still encouraged as it gives the Hare an indicative pack size in advance to advise the pub and registration has been useful to the Hash Cash as an aid to keeping stats and collecting subs so if you plan to come on this run please register by clicking on This Link.
Hare – Ryde
Registration is required for all participants in West London runs during the current pandemic. If you plan to come on this run please register ASAP by using This link
This week’s run will start from The Forester, 2 Leighton Road, Ealing, London W13 9EP map link. The nearest station is Northfields Tube on the Piccadilly Line and there will be a trail of chalk P arrows from that station to help you find the pub. It will be a staggered start, runners should start between 18.45 and 19.00 hours, walkers can start any time after 18.30. Runners starting after 18.50 should mark through checks when they are called. The Pub will provide bag storage, speak to the staff about this if the Hare is not available. Please do not start any earlier than the above times as the Hare will be setting the trail alone and it would put her under undue pressure.
There will be drink stop on trail which will not be open before 19.30 hours and the Hare has booked tables for at least 24 Hashers in the public bar of the Foresters for after run drinks. Hashers who would prefer to drink in the open air are free to make their own arrangements with the pub to book a table in their Garden.
Hare – Dunny Penny
Registration is required for all participants in West London runs during the current pandemic. If you plan to come on this run please register ASAP by using This Link.
The trail will start from Teddington Lock, near The Anglers pub, Map Link and there will be a trail of chalk P arrows from Teddington station to guide you to the start point. Start on trail any time after 18.30 hours, the faster you run the later you should start. The trail will be 9 km long with shortcuts. Duration: 50 – 60 mins for runners and about the same for SCBs. There will be a drink stop on trail which will be open from 19:20 hours. The Hare has booked a large number of tables for us in the garden of the Anglers from 20:00 hours, this will be about 5 mins walk from the drink drink stop. Entry to the pub will be via top secret password to be revealed in confidence at the drink stop.
Tips from the Hare: The trail uses a small area, and is will be very tightly marked to take us through some great terrain. There will be few checks to keep you on the best bits of the area. FOLLOW THE TRAIL MARKINGS – especially important in the first 5km / 30 minutes, if you try to be clever and/or use local knowledge to jump across to runners you see in the distance you will not only miss out on some lovely territory but could end up getting very confused and running round in ever decreasing circle until you disappear up your own bum.
The drink stop is not the main event, please support our local hospitality industry by attending the pub after the run. The Hare may need to adjust our booking according to how many register, so please register ASAP using the above link, we have re-introduced the field on the registration form to indicate whether or not you plan to come to the pub after the run, please use this.
The Hare will be available on the WLH3 runners on trail Whatsapp group from 18:30 to 20:30 to help out the challenged.
Our hare for the evening will be KMA.
Those of you who have not already installed the Zoom app on your device may wish to Install Zoom in advance, not strictly necessary but might save time on the night. Please observe the following points of etiquette for our Zoom circles.Run nr 1713 – Coach & Horses, 27 Barnes High Street, London, SW13 9LW
A bagsitter may be needed
Hare: Roll Back
P-trail from Barnes Bridge Station (National Rail)
Here is a map showing locations of some of the WLH runs during 2016. Clicking on a run location will allow you to view the trail for that run.
Hopefully this will be helpful if you are a hare trying to decide where to set your next trail.
Run Nr 1536 – Ship, 10 Thames Bank, London SW14 7QR.
Map
Hare: Hobo
P-trail from Mortlake national rail station
Halloween is traditionally the night when the gates of hell are thrown asunder and Satan and his every fiend and fury are free to roam the face of God’s Earth and to taunt and terrify mortal men until the breaking dawn on the feast of All Saints’ Day banishes them back to the foul pit from whence they came.
In these more secular times it is however just an excuse to get dressed up in scary costumes and get sloshed.
The first horror that confronted us at the end of the short P trail form Balham station was the Pub, an over poncified gastro job, but they did look after our bags and gave us a few free pints so perhaps we can overlook the dreadful décor and excruciating karaoke that was taking place at one end of the pub.
The second horror was Blunder’s trail. Many of the pack had dressed for the occasion and one unkindly remarked to me that the trail also seemed to be in disguise, a City trail passing itself off as a West London one! If one can imagine cannot imagine anything more diabolical than that then I do not think we should know about it. Indeed the trail did seem to consist of a lot of pavement, much beloved of our City friends, and some did question why it was quite so long when one South London Street looks much the same as another, and what exactly a run through well-lit streets had to do with the spooky traditions of Halloween. These individuals had obviously not fathomed Blunder’s subtle cunning {note that this is the first time in the history of the English language that those last three words have ever appeared together in the same sentence}. The reason the trail was this length was because Blunder had carefully planned it to be exactly 6.66 miles long! His clever Halloween joke was possibly lost on those without an accurate GPS and a detailed knowledge of the Book of Revelations and so I am happy to reveal it now. Please be careful not to injure yourselves as you fall about laughing.
Anyway Blunder was kind enough to stop as getting bored on trail by entertaining us, once again, with his mobile sound system as we ran. This is such an amusing feature that I hope we are entertained with it again sometime, perhaps in two or three years’time. There was of course a drink stop with cheese and sweets all washed down with lashings of Bloody Mary (what else).
Back at the pub we had down downs but I am afraid I missed most of these as I became engrossed in an intelligent conversation with Rent Boy as they were taking place and this was such a rare, if not unique, experience that I was loathe to curtail it by joining the circle on the Pub’s overcrowded balcony but I am sure it was all very funny and you will no doubt see all the photographs of everyone’s spooky costumes when our new Hash Flash puts them on the web site.
On On
PF
Run 1465, from Raynes Park. We met at a lovely pub.
It was called the Rock, had but two real ales, but also did wonderful grub.
With our GM absent, we had a fine stand-in – Stay Over, well practiced and drilled.
He took over precedings with consummate style: concise and expertly skilled,
The Hare was Butt Plug, of whom great things, had been said and proffered before,
There was talk of luxurious drink stops, with Shiraz, olives and more.
But the greedy-eyed pack were left wanting, ‘No drink stop?!’ they cried, ‘It’s a con!’
So with hopes dashed and some grumbling, we all set off with an ‘On On!’.
We welcomed our virgins and visitors who, had travelled here from afar;
We had some from London H3 for the night although they’d not travelled so far.
We had late arrivals – Rambo, again – who left early before all the drinking,
And Tango caught up with the pack finally, but by then beers were already sinking.
The moon was full, the sky was clear, the hashers gathered together.
Suitably dressed in neon and black and prepared for inclement weather.
Torches were held, or strapped to our heads, as we ventured off into the night.
With eyes peeled and ears cocked, we made a formidable sight.
Initial confusion was the call of the day, as our FRB lost the chalk,
Summoned back shortly to follow the rest, they set off once again at a walk.
Some loops through suburbia rapidly followed, with hashers sent hither and yon,
Utterly failing to find the true path we enthusiastically blundered on on.
Our Hare was too clever, and in the pitch black, we followed a false trail or two;
But having already lost the original trail, this created a hullaballoo.
Some hashers went this way, some hashers went that, it was something of a farce;
It was only when Butt Plug showed us the way, that we with both our hands found our arse.
Under the beautiful hunter’s moon, our torches stretched over the moors,
Up hill and down dale and back on ourselves the pack and the stragglers toured.
‘Much further?’ was heard, and ‘How far to the pub?!’ as stamina’s waned like the moon.
‘On in!’ was heard, to the delight of all and the FRB took off like a loon.
Social drinking ensued and all were enthused, by the run in the open air.
The circle was called – inside the pub! – and the RA was heard to declare.
‘Hash hush! Hash hush! Before we begin, there’s some committee business to address!
Our Hash Song Meister has deemed to attend – Reach Around himself, no less!’
After water was downed, for not turning up, more was downed once again,
This time for inaccurate scribing as last weeks write-up was a pain!
Shakesbeer was welcomed back from the East, Moscow to be precise.
She’s not lost her knack for drinking and put it away in a thrice.
Our visitors – Dagwood and Saffron – both from the land down under,
Along with a virgin called Dave – who stared around in wonder,
Were all given the traditional hash welcome, we save for our Ozzie sports,
You’re worthless, colonial bastards without fathers or proper passports!
Our Hash Cash, Man Magnet was also called in, to answer for sartorial crimes,
To explain the holes, in the knees of her tights – which sounded like interesting times.
F*cking Shakespeare and Charlatan, Stay Over and Fickle, were also called in for a drink
Stay Over for super-keen running and Fart for moaning, I think?
Some announcements were made, but I will not attempt, to relay them here in pen,
After last weeks debacle I don’t wish again, to be given Hash Scribe duties again!
A pleasant nights hashing on an autumnal eve, had left us all with a warm glow,
I look forward to long, dark wintry nights – and hashing in the snow!
On On!
KMA
With a pub chosen near Central London, a reliable hare – Naughty Nympho – and a bevy of eager hashers, run no.1464 had all the ingredients for a great nights hashing. What could possibly go wrong? The usual suspects met up in the Carpenter’s Arms in the depths of Edgeware Rd, a short, if somewhat elusive, P trail from Marble Arch tube. The venue appeared ideal, 3 plus real ales to choose from, a secure room for our bags and boots and attractive décor in the form of olde worlde carpenter’s tools from pre-war (the Crimean I think). The GM announced the hash in usual style, welcoming visitors – LipsDick from Oregon, Randall and Scott (both pilots, not a 1970’s crime-fighting duo)and one more who’s name eludes me.. The night was dark, the winds a blowin’ and the threat of rain lay heavy in the skies. But the hashers enthusiasm is not easily dampened and an eager pack strode boldly into the night.
As close as we were to the illustrious delights of Hyde Park, the more experienced hashers of the group (of whom there were many) made several attempts to pre-guess the hare by heading where they thought the run would go, but to no avail, we were looped hither and yon, taken down some dark alleys – not for the first time for some – and positively teased with the expectation of fresh air and countryside, only to have it replaced by some rather poky areas around Paddington/Bayswater Rd. But, finally, our patience was rewarded. After some rather crafty, and completely out of character, short-cutting by Wacca, with KMA being led astray, we were bordering greenery!
With Knickers leading the way now, we ran head-long into the utter blackness of the park, incapable of seeing any flour or chalk of any kind until Bhopal came to our rescue with his head-torch. As everyone was checking, the split-up began in earnest. The trail was eventually located and we On-On’ ed for all of a minute before, disaster, the trail ran into a rail. Indeed, the hare had neglected to check the closing times of certain, somewhat residential, areas and our trail was locked off! But again, showing that never-say-die spirit so prevalent at WLH, Stay Over immediately announced ‘Live trail!’ and sprinted off into the darkness. And what a fortuitous route he took. Within 5 minutes of blindly running the moors of west London, we found ourselves on trail again, what luck!
So, with a dash past the Serpentine followed by a long on-in down Park Lane, we finally circled in on our point of origin – the Carpenter’s Arms. No drink stop, one false trail, not too many check points and some fine, albeit dark, scenery, all in all a good trail was the general consensus. Now, to the beer.
It is here our light-hearted tale of jolly hashers, running, drinking and making merry takes a woeful turn down some dark alleys (again). Beer One – never found the name, had one pint, which took 3 mins to settle and was then promptly told it had run out. Oh dear. Beer Two – served to Stay Over and distinctly tasting of soap, was also pulled. Oh deary dear. Beer Three – Shipyard was it’s name, looked lovely, pulled two pints and was told by the increasingly grumpy bar staff -”’s’all gone mate”. Which left us with a stout – something Knight – was dark, bittery and not at all a quaffable ale, but we soldiered on. Our patience was eventually rewarded when the Shipyard was put back on a little later. But the on-down beer was the stout. Oh well.
Wacca nobly accepted the duties of RA and presided over a boisterous crowd. The Hare received no less than three down-downs, of a fruit-based beverage no less (is coconut a fruit? turns out, it is); our visitors were applauded and abused –with one attempt made to name Randall, our US pilot, as Cockpit, no Joystick I believe, though I’m unsure if any result was arrived at. Fickle Fart was rewarded for the longest journey from Birmingham to London by public transport – nearly 4hrs apparently; Next Week for excessively keen exercising and All Fours was roundly applauded for achieving her 50th WL hash and received the priceless tankard in recognition of time served.
Social drinking ensued for many afterwards. Eric, it was said, had slunk off to the nearby Wetherspoons, only to return to us later in the evening. Drinking continued, much hilarity was had by all and eventually, when time and alcohol had taken their toll, we called it a night and headed home.
On On! KMA
