Many years ago there was a Lakeside hasher called Bent. He set a park run near the Yarra along the Yarra Boulevard. His catering amounted to two fried chooks served from a paper bag on the seat of his motor…

GG took us back to a character-ful and traditional old hash pub in North Melbourne which hasn’t been too gentrified. The run took us through lots of those beautiful, wide tree lined streets full of old houses which, so far,…

It rained and blew all night, but I doubt if anyone really noticed. Mid-morning there was a break in the drizzle and Prickly Bush jumped into action to set the recovery run. She returned and asked everyone to assemble outside…

The Mountain looked just great with the surroundings green and sparkling. The pack of twenty split evenly into runners and walkers, the latter being led by Deeper. Runners and part running walkers passed by the toboggan run, up through the…

Sweaty was acting GM either because: (a) she usurped the throne by exploiting Melbourne’s windy weather to hurl Cooch off his bike into the Yarra; (b) she usurped the throne by testing the tyres on her nifty new road bike…

Finally! Someone has shown your scribe the respect she deserves. Marvellous Melba was a fabbo singer and had Melba Toast named in her honour. Pretty pirouetting Pavlova had the fruity meringue thingy named after her. And I, Cheesecake being an…

The great half marathon slaughter of 2016 As dog years are to human years, so Codpiece kilometres are to normal kilometres. Using the 7:1 ratio, the trail was only 2 kms. Cooch recently listed LSH on the Meetup website, so…

When our hare, young Sweaty Box first arrived at Hash, she thought we were a cult since we exhibited many of the rituals and characteristics of some weird sect. And yet she’s still with us!! Why Hash House Harriers is…