The Chequers Inn

Hummery: A warm light on a dark road,  The Chequers is temptation personified…and that’s before you get to sample ‘The Devil’s Own’ at 8.5% behind the bar. Excellent beer and a peculiarly English take on tapas - mixing bowls full of chips with cheese and bacon garnishings to taste - elevate this pub to Godlike status. Rejoice!

Overheard on the hash (27th January 2016)

“Crowd round, gather in, cuddle up, embrace your sexuality” [the ‘how-many-hashers-can-you-cram-into-a-smoking-shed-with-a- heat-lamp-on-a-freezing-cold-February-evening’ game is enthusiastically embraced by all & sundry]

“Is that what they call a ‘Runsie’? I wouldn’t stand too close to the heat lamp in that - you might just spontaneously combust...” [Matt professes some concern at Helen’s all-in-one running get-up]

 “All the usual markings….apart from those which Gerry made.” “ What’s a BC.....Before Christ?” “Is that really how long Gerry’s been around for?” [Assorted rude comments about Gerry from the pack]

“Argh - almost slipped there!”  “What you Paul…almost moosing?!”  “Yeah, it might have helped if I had a light and could see where I was going” [Andy escorts Paul at the back of the pack - rather like ‘Care in the Community’]

“I don’t have to do on-backs - I’m the co-hare”  “Well, in that case, I’m going to let you go first so that I can miss that ‘on back’ up ahead....by a hare’s breath!” 

“Uh oh, close to an un-shoeing there!”  [Phil checks his hooves on a particularly steep muddy bit]

“Jess - give those chocolates out please” [Roger calls across the room] “Since when did I become your slave then?” “Since when you were born…next question?!”

“It was Rocky Road”  “No, Barney, it was Crowing Cock” “Are you sure? It was definitely Rocky-something…” “Nah, you’re thinking of Maggie’s Brownies…” “Could it have been Rocky Cock then?”  “NO BARNEY - it was Crowing Cock” “Hmphh….well I’m not convinced….” [Stadler & Waldorf - aka Mick & Barney - have an Alzheimer’s ding dong up in the balcony]

“My plus one has just become a minus one”  [Nikki finds out at the menu choice stage that Zac suddenly had a better offer for the coming Saturday’s hash Xmas Bash] 

“Come to Daddy….look, all the cheese has melted on the chip……vroom, vroom....thar' she goes…..down the tunnel….” [Barney regresses to childhood whilst feeding himself industrial quantities of cheesy chips]

Rogette’s Of The Week

“I’d better be careful, otherwise my Tosca speech will be written up in the Hashalator”  “Only if it’s short Roger…only if it’s short….”