Welcome to Episkopi Hash House Harriers
The Episkopi Hash is one of the last gentlemen only hashes left in the world. Why gentlemen only? Well, initially when founded in 1967 by three military types from Episkopi base that was the norm for hashes. Now most of our members are of retirement age and are driven out of the house each Tuesday to give our Harriets time to themselves. How many marriages we have saved is incalculable !!
We are these days very much an informal group of mates who meet every Tuesday afternoon for a little exercise and socialising afterwards. We are, of course, always eager to meet new mates who fancy a bit of exercise. We run, jog or walk in the beautiful Cyprus countryside for around 5 km. Following a pre-laid route, known as a trail, and this is designed for most levels of fitness – shortcutting is allowed and indeed encouraged by the hares who control the run.
The run or walk takes about 45 mins. In the summer and an hour in the winter but is rarely on flat terrain as we avoid like the plague, any tarmac or built up areas.
Hashing as it is known began in the 1930’s amongst ex-pats in the Far East who decided that they needed to take some exercise and so began the phenomenon which grew into 3000 clubs worldwide. Essentially it is a paper chase and you might have done one at school or seen it like me in "The Railway Children". However to make it non-competitive and ensure that it caters for most levels of fitness hares go out the day before the hash and lay 2 trails one for the runners, joggers and plodders and one for the walkers. Then the participants (hounds) follow one of these trails, with guidance (shortcuts) being given as required by the hares.
The whole emphasis of a Hash is to exercise in an informal way without any competitive pressures and then to relax afterwards with mates over a nice cool beer or soft drink. After a suitable time of taking refreshments at the end of the run/walk we always go to a taverna for a local meal to round off the day. Being such a social club, we throughout the year, have a range of events that include our Better Halves be they on the beach (we know many deserted ones) or up in the hills. These events are either catered or we bring picnics
Fly Army!
..... and the RUN STATS OF 2017 - HASHERS ON THE ACTIVE LIST!
| EH3 RUN STATS - 1 JAN TO 31 DEC 2017 | |||||||
| Hasher | Runs | % of Total(58) | HARES | RUN/HARE AVERAGE | CAREER RUNS | CAREER HARES | CAREER AVERAGE |
| Burke Jim | 51 | 88% | 10 | 5.10 | 1060 | 159 | 6.66 |
| Hogg Peter | 51 | 88% | 8 | 6.38 | 662 | 90 | 7.36 |
| Hillyar Mike | 47 | 81% | 5 | 9.40 | 892 | 87 | 10.25 |
| Norris Dave | 47 | 81% | 7 | 6.71 | 1115 | 178 | 6.26 |
| Foley Mark | 46 | 79% | 6 | 7.67 | 492 | 41 | 12 |
| Bruce Barney | 44 | 76% | 5 | 8.80 | 595 | 71 | 8.38 |
| Jones Mike | 44 | 76% | 13 | 3.38 | 114 | 21 | 5.42 |
| Mitchell Laurie | 43 | 74% | 8 | 5.38 | 749 | 90 | 8.32 |
| Trotter George | 43 | 74% | 5 | 8.60 | 139 | 14 | 9.93 |
| Kemp Trevor | 42 | 72% | 5 | 8.40 | 440 | 54 | 8.15 |
| Turford Ray | 40 | 69% | 3 | 13.30 | 1180 | 135 | 8.74 |
| Adair Jim | 39 | 67% | 6 | 6.50 | 388 | 36 | 10.78 |
| McSherry Tom | 39 | 67% | 6 | 6.50 | 1386 | 200 | 6.93 |
| Smith Roger | 39 | 67% | 6 | 6.50 | 422 | 38 | 11.11 |
| O'Callaghan Aubrey | 38 | 66% | 6 | 6.34 | 119 | 15 | 7.93 |
| Day Giles | 36 | 62% | 3 | 12.00 | 514 | 54 | 9.51 |
| Flower Tony | 33 | 57% | 6 | 5.50 | 594 | 73 | 8.14 |
| Carroll Simon | 31 | 53% | 2 | 15.50 | 341 | 31 | 11 |
| Liddell Brian | 29 | 50% | 6 | 4.80 | 1341 | 110 | 12.2 |
| Smith Nick | 28 | 48% | 3 | 9.33 | 542 | 57 | 9.51 |
| Ball Mike | 28 | 48% | 1 | 28.00 | 846 | 83 | 10.19 |
| Carroll Jimmy | 28 | 48% | 3 | 9.33 | 1117 | 127 | 8.8 |
| Rushton Nev | 28 | 48% | 7 | 4.00 | 621 | 91 | 6.82 |
| Johnson,Keith | 27 | 47% | 3 | 9.00 | 27 | 3 | 9 |
| Marks David | 24 | 41% | 4 | 6.00 | 197 | 13 | 15.15 |
| Moore Peter | 24 | 41% | 7 | 3.42 | 535 | 67 | 7.99 |
| Butt Hal | 22 | 38% | 3 | 7.33 | 245 | 26 | 9.42 |
| Blocki Mike | 19 | 33% | 4 | 4.75 | 175 | 27 | 6.48 |
| Cooper, Ben | 19 | 33% | 1 | 19.00 | 88 | 8 | 11 |
| Duckworth Peter | 18 | 31% | 2 | 9.00 | 219 | 19 | 11.53 |
| McGhee David | 18 | 31% | 0 | 0.00 | 266 | 6 | 44.33 |
| Muir Drew | 18 | 31% | 1 | 18.00 | 596 | 46 | 12.96 |
| Woods Mike | 17 | 29% | 4 | 4.25 | 183 | 22 | 8.32 |
| Findlater, Rob | 16 | 28% | 1 | 16.00 | 42 | 3 | 14 |
| Oldfield Joe | 14 | 24% | 2 | 7.00 | 291 | 25 | 11.64 |
| Blackburn Dennis | 11 | 19% | 0 | 0.00 | 224 | 22 | 10.18 |
| Hughes Marshal | 11 | 19% | 0 | 0.00 | 178 | 22 | 8.09 |
| Kay Brian | 10 | 17% | 0 | 0.00 | 63 | 3 | 21 |
| Law Stewart | 10 | 17% | 1 | 10.00 | 547 | 52 | 10.52 |
| Montgomery Gary | 9 | 16% | 0 | 0.00 | 211 | 21 | 10.05 |
| Smith Dave | 9 | 16% | 2 | 4.50 | 541 | 57 | 9.49 |
| Snaith Chris | 7 | 12% | 1 | 7.00 | 167 | 20 | 8.35 |
| Garland Colin | 7 | 12% | 1 | 7.00 | 535 | 43 | 12.44 |
| Archer, Dan | 6 | 10% | 0 | 0.00 | 255 | 23 | 11.09 |
| Rix, Gary | 6 | 10% | 1 | 6.00 | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| Clayton Clive | 5 | 9% | 0 | 0.00 | 401 | 18 | 22.28 |
| Cook John | 4 | 7% | 0 | 0.00 | 373 | 18 | 20.72 |
| Watson Brian | 4 | 7% | 0 | 0.00 | 66 | 2 | 33 |
| Mccrory, Colin | 4 | 7% | 0 | 0.00 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| McCrory Simon | 2 | 3% | 0 | 0.00 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| Tandy Vic | 2 | 3% | 0 | 0.00 | 311 | 52 | 5.98 |
| Bolger Ray | 1 | 2% | 0 | 0.00 | 76 | 2 | 38 |
ANOGYRA WEATHER (WET)
Mike Jones - On Pres' Number 52 - Missive 5...and LAST!
And so the end is near and so I face ………. no I can’t go on as surely that song is the most obnoxious, ubiquitous ode to self-satisfaction and so richly deserves its cult of haters like me and Frank Sinatra himself. It was actually a French song with lyrics about a failed marriage written in 1968 by Claude François. Claude François was the big French heartthrob at the time, was very fond of sparkly outfits and died in 1978 age 39 when he tried to fix a faulty light-bulb while in his bath. Never a good idea. Paul Anka wrote the trite English version managing to rhyme “my way” with “highway”, “byway” and “shy way” before the song mercifully ends as does my stint as On. Pres.
One of the best farewell speeches I heard started with “this is not the first time today I have risen from a warm seat with a piece of paper in my hand !! “ and I’ll leave it there.
I unlike Dylan Thomas’s poem will happily “go gently into that good night”. I’ve had a ball and now it’s over to Barney.
On On The Hash