We took off south along the Gardiner’s Creek bike path towards the old rail trail to Alamein Station. Thereafter the run took us through the glamorous streets of Ashburton to Glen Iris, past Pointy’s old house in Muswell Hill Road, when we plunged down to the bike path along Gardiner’s Creek. A very pleasant run through the bush alongside a babbling brook eventually took us to the drink stop where MothBall was waiting with some delicious warm mulled wine.
Back at the ranch TigerMoth had cooked up her usual sensational Christmas dinner with spicy Brazilian overtones. Certain hashers had only turned up on the night because they wanted to fill up on TigerMoth’s cooking. Main course was followed by her scrumptious crème caramel.
TigerMoth very cruelly had a TV slide show running showing what we all looked like at Christmas in July 9 years ago. We were all a bit skinnier and fitter and despite Cheesecake’s best efforts to cavort as a natural blonde, there was the brunette evidence.
Mummie’s Boy shared his desperate story of trekking across town to Deer Park to buy some Perspex or polymethyl methacrylate being the name on its passport. Why was Mummie’s buying Perspex I hear you ask? Perspex can be used for:
• baby incubators (is there another baby hasher on the way??);
• motor cycle windshields (is Mummies planning to join MothBall and Pointy at the local OMG? Unlikely as real hard core bikies don’t need windshields);
• and glazing of helicopters (Mummies has discovered Bronwyn Bishop’s preferred method of transport and wants to show his love.)
I’ve shared this anecdote before, but since Bronwyn Bishop is so much in the news, it’s worth repeating. Once upon a time in the late 1990s when Bronwyn was Minister for Defence Industry, she visited a naval dockyard and got taken out for the day on a submarine. Upon completion of her official visit she gave a press conference and announced to assembled journalists that she was the first woman in Australia to ever go down on a submarine. Lucky submarine. Thereafter she was the Minister for Caged Hair Aged Care.
Visitor
Daniel the virgin
Returnees
Gargoyle, Udder, Swingers
Connetikitty described the run – there were long distances between marks, the runners had to do 2-3 kms extra because of the marks, the total was 9.4km, there were no lights during the ‘race’. Much guffawing at this stage – most hashers couldn’t ‘race’ fast enough to get out of their own way. Maybe she meant the race to the beer esky? Awarded 60.9/77.
Jaywalker described the walk – pleasant scenery along the creek, longish stretches without marks, momentarily got lost because they followed Lethal who thought he knew what he was doing, they almost missed the drink stop, but luckily they did make it to the mulled wine and hence, Lethal’s life was saved. Awarded 76.5/77
Special Runs
Kokup x 220, 2 Bottoms x 130, Klingon x 810, Deeper x 510, GG x some stratospheric number containing a zero.
Charges
• The Moths charged for being the hares
• Mothball for going to Rio for the World Cup, setting himself up in a beautiful apartment and then missing all the matches.
• Gargoyle for arriving at Hash Udderless.
• E&B for wearing a very loud Christmas themed jumper which was more than 9 years old.
• Lethal for losing the walkers and the drink stop.
• Prickly Bush because her ear flopped (her reindeer ear)
• Humper for farting in the circle.
• Kokup for looking like a dickhead while wearing his bib.
• Daniel the virgin for getting lost.
• Connectikitty for worrying about Daniel getting lost.
• Mother Trucker and Sweaty Box for sending a compromising email?