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First U.K. Full Moon Horrors You
don't know how much having children changes your life. At first it's not
much of a problem going hashing - they're too small to realize what's
going on. But as time goes by you have to make up excuses for leaving
them behind. Essex were very useful in this respect. Apart from the usual
'rules' (of which there are none) the two big no-no's were no dogs and
no children. After agreeing to 'take you when you are older' the day finally
arrives in the guise of the Nonsuch Horrors set up by Saddlesniffer and
Gyrobonk. We went to their Christmas party and damn cold it was too. That
should finish off all desire to come hashing, I thought. No such chance!
'When are we going to get our own hash?' they demanded. July 16th 1995
was the day of the inaugural run from the Blacksmiths Arms, Thornwood
Common, Epping. A good turn out was there at 2pm on that Saturday
afternoon to see Panther and Kebab lay their first trail and set the scene
for the months to come. We ran about six or seven times a year to begin
with and then settled into ten times a year. As is usual with the hash
a lot of visitors came to see what was going on, but the hard core of
a dozen or so soldiered on oblivious. The Easter Bunny, Christmas parties,
Halloween lanterns and several T-shirts later, we were doing very well
until Essex relaxed their opinion on horrors. Where does that leave us now? Well, the Horrors made it to their 50th run and called it a day. Several years later, they now run with Full Moon (venue permitting) and Essex. We had a great time while it lasted but we all move on. (Of course that is not true - they move on, we still tread the same path, don't we?.)
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