This weeks run was hared by Ryde and Table Whine, and took us on a very pleasant trail though the wilds of Elthorne Park and the Grand Union Canal.

As with previous week’s hashes, WLH members exhibited exemplary social distancing awareness in the circle, rigorously enforced by joint RAs, Wacker and KMA.

Our second post-lock-down socially distanced hash was hared by Martian Matron, and took around the streets of North Acton, Hanger Lane and Ealing.

First post-lockdown hash, hared by Pope with drink stop assistance provided by Butt Plug.

This week, something completely different, with Generator taking us all the way to Thomas Hardy country with a trail round Abbotsbury and Portesham in West Dorset.

This weeks run was hared by No Foreplay and took us around Battersea.

This week’s virtual hash is hared by Butt Plug, and takes around the delights of Windsor Great Park.

A delightful jaunt from Teddington along the Thames to Richmond, hared by Contour and Last Tango.

This week’s virtual hash is hared by Pickled Fart, and takes us around Hampton Court and Thames Ditton.

This week’s virtual run is “hared” by Pope, and is a celebration of the WLH away weekend in Brussels that never happened.

This week’s run is hared by Sir Humpalot.

As is becoming customary on our virtual hashes, the hare became quiz-master in the circle, and offered up this Richmond Park based quiz:

This week’s trail around Hampstead hared by Mouthwash and Scrumpy.

This weeks trail takes us to the countryside around far flung Shepperton, and is hared by our GM, Butt Plug.

This week’s virtual hash will be hared by Man Magnet, and will feature her traditional Azalea Run trail.

Here is Man Magnet’s quiz to accompany the video.

WLH3 20TH AZALEA RUN 7 MAY 2020

1. Which British monarch first enclosed the area known as Richmond Park by having a wall built around it?
   Charles 1 in 1637 escaping from an outbreak of the plague in London
   Henry VII changed name to Richmond Park…used to be
   known as the Manor of Sheen during Edward I 1272 – 1307
2. What is the area of Richmond Park?
   Nearly 10 sq km 2500 acres (3 times the size of New York’s Central park)
3. The white house in the video is known as the Thatched House Lodge (presumably it used to have a thatched roof). Which member of the Royal family resides here now and what is her relationship to the Monarch?
   Princess Alexandra- Cousin to the Queen (also accept Lady Ogilvy)
4. a) How many deer in Richmond Park? 630 deer
   b)What indigenous British deer species is NOT found in Richmond Park? Roe deer (they are red and fallow deer)
5. How many river crossings were there on your trail tonight?
   3 (bridge at the start, by the wooden hut & approaching the beech plantation with other humanoids coming in opposite direction)
6. In the video, I asked what building is it in the distance?
   Parish Church of St Lukes on the corner of Burton and Gibbon Roads. Will accept a block of flats on Richmond Road in Kingston
7. What is the oldest largest and most noticeable inhabitant of Richmond Park?
   Trees….there are around 1300 ancient trees, some are more than 750m years old
8. According to British folklore, this creature which inhabitants Richmond Park, summoned thunder and lightning storms, which scared the wits out of medieval peasants who also believed that they flew around with hot coals in their jaws setting fire to buildings. What are they?
   Most people would stink of stags…..they don’t realise there is another type of stag….a Stag Beetle. They have a 7 year life cycle
9. If you had done 20 push ups at each bench seat you saw in the video, how many push ups would you have done?
   100 push ups (on trail to Isabella, beeches, in Isabella, back again, view from escarpment)
10. When was Isabellla Plantation created?
    40 acres, Originally planted within a Victorian woodland by Lord Sidmouth (park deputy ranger) in 1830s for a game reserve and opened to the public as a woodland garden in 1953.The name is unclear a) wife or daughter of a member of staff b) derived not from a Queen, but more prosaically from the word Isabel meaning dingy grey/yellow colour. This would have related to the colour of the sandy clay topsoil in this area.

Photo clues/answers for quiz:

Some of the ignoramuses taking part in this quiz are depicted here: