Monday 10th June, Trail #2578. The hash trail this week starts and ends from:
The Pear Tree Inn, Scotland End, Hook Norton, Banbury, OX15 5NU.
Meet for a 7.00pm off with Preacher and Grunt as your hares.
A real picture of a real pub for real people – we will have no trouble here…!
Until that is, I asked my new (and not improved) friend DAL-E-3, brought together by my match making friend Co-Pilot.
Here’s how our conversation went – and what I have to share with you… don’t be alarmed! No beer, dogs, flour or trail r*nners were harmed (or spoiled) during the following spurious creativity. Feel free to hit delete or read on for amusement and a sleep induced coma.
I asked DAL-E-3
“Create an image of a group of friends out in the country, following a flour trail and all having fun”
A pretty good reflection of our usual hash, but I was sure we could do better…flour and not flower for a start!
“Negotiating nettles, mud and puddles, and a could of dogs in the pack, but all having fun”
But still we could do better I thought… DAL-E-3 wasn’t really getting it.
“With lots of beer!”
And so – we move to this…
A backward step? We we’re getting somewhere I thought!
“It’s Hook Norton Beer” I added.
We arrived at this…
What happened to my happy r*nners? – led me back to here….
Not strictly realistic, I thought, and DAL-E-3 was thinking the same, I could tell…
When I asked for ‘more realistic pictures’ – it took a bad turn… It almost started to look like a proper / official r*n. It was going in the wrong direction…? A FALSE TRAIL – DAL-E-3 was not on-on.
and 
Far too serious…
I went back to ‘More beer and less serious’. It looked promising… but I think DAL-E-3 was humouring me!
and 
Now we are getting there – definitely a ‘maybe’ although I never thought I would say it – too much flour! Is that even possible?!?
“We need Preacher and Grunt as our Hares!”
I thought I had lost DAL-E-3, that he/she/they wouldn’t be able to keep up, that they might have missed the ‘essence’ of the hash… the strange camaraderie, the jovial nature of the trail, the false trails, the f*ck ups, the down downs… and I was right.
and 
I called it a day, said my goodbyes to DAL-E-3 and quietly concluded it was maybe not a good idea to try and describe a BH3 hash in AI generated form.
If you know me though, I am not one to give up easy. I might be Easily LED, but I am never easily beaten! I gave it one last go…
Nailed it!
WHAT’S NOT TO LIKE?
OnOn
Easily LED
(O-O-X)
