HARES: Botak Chin and Bollywood
VENUE: Victoria Gardens, High Street, Prahran
The pack gathered in the pergola at the High Street end and there was an elderly citizens meeting being conducted in a foreign language at the other end. Despite our invitation to join the run, they dispersed and shuffled off home.
A park user then started talking to Kokup from across a garden bed near the pergola. Kokup could not hear him and asked him to speak up. Kokup still could not hear, so he walked across the garden bed to get a little closer and the guy said, “I just wanted to ask you to ask the person in the pink socks not to walk on the garden beds, but now it really doesn’t matter”.
The hare gave the BOS with a hint about the run referring to a huge estate in Toorak and told us the trail was marked in Penang markings (similar to LH3) and the walk was marked in yellow chalk after the split. Then it was on on out the bottom end of the gardens. The pack was soon split and towards the end, several runners lost trail, not picking up a strange ‘around the corner’ arrow.
Nosh was chicken drumsticks and saffron noodles with coriander and a beautiful homemade chile sauce.
Before circle, a Dragon lookalike terrorised our young visitor Diplomatic Cucumber, but he survived. Diplomatic Cucumber was named when, as a toddler, the Saudi Hash were attending a movie night out in the desert near Riyadh, which was also attended by the Ambassador for New Zealand and his wife. During dinner the child smiled at the ambassador’s wife, she smiled back and he grabbed a cucumber off her table and ran away with it. She went ballistic and all hell broke loose and she raved about the cucumber having diplomatic immunity. She chased him, chastised him, retrieved her cucumber and angrily went back to her seat, which, since she was an honoured guest was a large rug, which had been laid out on the bare desert sands. We still don’t know why she wanted the cucumber so badly.
WALK REPORT: By Udder Idjit Score: 489/583
Great Walk if you like that sort of thing. We walked the runners trail to Como Park, but by then the dogs were getting thirsty (being from the Mornington Peninsula, they don’t drink from the Yarra). There was no drink stop and a paucity of yellow chalk arrows for the Walkers to follow, so we followed the white arrows home. It was a great run and scored accordingly.
RUN REPORT: By POG Score: 400/583
This was like an old school Run with marks at every 400 metres or so. But to be fair, the arrows generally pointed in the same direction as the trail. However, some arrows which were slightly curved unfortunately did not always mean to turn the corner, they had merely been drawn just a bit bent. Confusing? We ran through the streets leading to Toorak Library, crossed over Toorak Road, up the road and then down the lane which had a long narrow steep descent of steps all the way down to the Yarra River. Trail followed the river then around Toorak and the big house and back into some familiar territory at Brookville Gardens, over the railway pedestrian bridge and back home.
The Run was about 9.3km, some of the arrows were marked a long way apart and some of the Checks were predictable, but overall it was a good run.
CHARGES:
HARES: Botak Chin & Bollywood
VISITORS: Right Way Rubber, Pantilever, Diplomatic Cucumber & And And from Saudi hash.
RETURNEES: Colours, Cheesecake (lookalike Old Boar), Sunny, Botak Chin, Bollywood, Rigby & Punch.
- Cheesecake – Taken by Old Boar for making it back to the Park, but somehow missing dinner and the circle.
- Udder Idjit – His correct Run number is 583. It’s not a prime number, but is it the cubed root of 6,960?
MUG OF THE WEEK AWARD: Udder Idjit who can now sign ‘The Book’ with his correct Run number.
Charges from the Floor:
- Prince: Spent the whole weekend searching through the old Hash Books to count Udder Idjit’s runs.
- POG – Campaigning for next GM by writing his name over every check on the trail.
- Shu Shu and Sunny – Happy Birthday to both of you young ladies during this past week.
- POG, Quick Lay, Shu Shu & Sunny, Botak Chin & Bollywood – Trail went right past all 3 of their homes, but there was no Drink Stop for all of us very thirsty Runners and Walkers.
- Cheesecake (Old Boar again) – Runners lost trail and Cheesecake appeared in the distance, coming from the opposite direction, but refused to join the runners to run home because she wanted to go shoe shopping.
- Quick Lay – Upset one of the locals, “The bloke in the pink socks walked all over the garden beds!”
- Kokup – For walking on the garden beds to hear what the guy was saying.
- Pog & GG – Gave Bollywood a cold frozen neck and she could not look down to cook the noodles.
- Botak Chin, Point Post, Prince & Old Boar – All the Kiwi’s charged for alleged undiplomatic behaviour by a former NZ Ambassador’s wife.