While it’s true that your hare/scribe has the face of an angel and the body of a super model (three or four super models probably) who’d have thought my most charismatic quality was my hash arrows. The siren song of Greek mythology lured sailors to the rocky coasts of the Greek Islands. My arrows lured Sudsy, Cockadile Done Me and Mustang Joey to the rocky coast of the Patterson River for the three Cs run. Cockadile Done Me, recently returned from running with the El Paso hash, walked along Westley St Carrum, saw my arrows and was immediately smitten. His little legs returned him home, his fingers did an online search for LSH. The arrows told him he must turn up to hash with young Mustang Joey in tow, to the three Cs 1714 run.
On the other side of the river, Sudsy, son of an old hasher called Foamy, sauntered along Mascot Avenue. He too spotted my arrows and was similarly gripped by an uncontrollable urge to come along to the three Cs run. (Mind you the Mascot Avenue arrows can’t have been that bloody charismatic because, apart from Sudsy, only Astro saw the arrows when he did that part of the run, all the other bastards having short-cutted to Colours’ drink stop). Sudsy was almost put off when he encountered Big Ears, but the lure of the arrows was too strong.
Given the Carrum location was slightly out of the LSH catchment area, a pleasing 26 turned up, although only Cooch, Prickly Bush, Astro and maybe one other did pretty much all of the 11km run.
Wet Patch and Shoe Shopper, clearly going through some sort of teenage rebellious stage, decided to do their own run. God knows where Big Ears went. Klingon pulled his fetlock and short-cutted while Pointy and Mother Brown just short-cutted. But the marvellous thing is – no one complained.
Being St Patrick’s Day, the theme was green. At the drink stop, Colours served up thirst quenching green beer and then it was on-home to Cut Loose’s delicious green sushi followed by two different desserts which may have been green but it was too dark to see.
Walk Report
Udder – claimed Gargoyle can’t read a map because she’s a woman which pretty much obliterated anything else he had to say about the walk. Award 1669/1700.
Run Report
Astro – being the only schmuck who did the entire run, including the last diversion along Mascot Avenue on the other side of the river which everyone else ignored, thus causing him to miss the drink stop, nonetheless awarded the run 1698/1700. Food 10/10.
Returnees
Sudsy, Jay Walker, Cut Loose, Astro, Shoe Shopper, Wet Patch, Game On, Spread On, Gargoyle, Udder.
Visitors
Cockadile Done Me, & Mustang Joey from El Paso.
Special Runs
Cockadile Done Me x 1, Mustang Joey x 1, LuBangOz x 313, Shoe Shopper x 47 (prime number).
Very Special Runs
Awards were made to Lotsa Fun x 600, NickelBy x 600 and LuBangOz x 300.
Charges
Sergeant – Wet Patch
- Hares – Colours, Cut Loose, Cheesecake
- Astro, who was a bank manager in a previous life, charged because he thinks 7×7=47.
- Udder for neglecting Gargoyle.
- NickelBy for shortcutting through a fence.
- Colours for being secretive about drink stop location.
- Udder, Pointy and Sudsy for being half Welsh.
- Udder for not knowing date of St George’s Day.
- Sweaty Box, Sudsy and Punch for not doing the run or the walk.
Song by Prickly Bush and Klingon.