HARES: Punch & Kokup
VENUE: Howard Dawson Reserve, Glen Iris.
VISITORS: Bulukau.
RETURNEES: Bollywood.
WALK REPORT: By Cyclone Tracy Scored 93/200
A lovely warm day for a walk towards a nice cool loop along leafy streets with lots of weaving in and out of little paths and lanes. We didn’t go through any parks and trail was nicely marked with clear arrows. There was a good Drink Stop of Hash splash, orange juice & water with corn chips, chocolate eggs and snakes. Where we had a road crossing it was at the traffic lights, except for one when Peanuts jaywalked across moving traffic. (She probably had not heard the Hare’s warning during his customary pre-Run BOS). However, the map should have been given to somebody other than Codpiece because she couldn’t read it. The meal was really nice and the corned beef was to die for.
RUN REPORT: By Astro Scored originally 0, changed to 200/200
Kokup has to be a sadist, asking me to do the run report. We started around the oval and I thought, trail is going to go right round, so I cut across the oval, but it went out the back lane. Then it went around tracks and lanes and down to Burke Road, on to Central Park. There was no way trail would go around, so I went straight across Central Park, but trail did go around it. While the other Runners followed trail, I thought Point Post was calling ON ON, but he was saying “I’m NOT ON”! (This was vigorously denied by Pointy). We went down Burke Road and I got to Hedgely Dean, but everyone had disappeared so I thought “I’d better call the police.” I asked a lady in the Park if she had seen a group of runners, but she had not seen any runners. Then it got dark and I could not see where I was going. I was starting to panic and walked through the Park, finding trail along a dark track near the railway line and it was so dark that I was on my hands and knees trying to spot the arrows. I finally got to Gardiner’s Creek trail through the tunnel and came out on a main road and I thought it was Burke Road again. I asked a lady and she told me it was High Street. I walked up High Street and got to a train station and someone told me it was Gardenvale, which is where I thought I got off coming to Hash. By this stage I was starting to panic, so I walked up High Street to Malvern Road where I found the Walkers trail going off to the right. I crossed the overpass and found the drinkstop, but there was a car just leaving and it was Kokup. I found the Gardiner’s Creek trail again and followed it back towards the city. Then I caught the train back to Gardenvale ……!
GM Kokup’s CHARGES:
VISITORS and RETURNEES – Bulukau, Bollywood.
HARES – Punch & Kokup.
- Prickly Bush – 200 magnificent runs and presented with an embroidered LH3 singlet.
SERGEANT Prickly Bush’s CHARGES:
- Libido, Codpiece (for Peanuts), Cyclone Tracy, Cut Loose & Gargoyle – All the walkers (snake snavellers) who ate all the snakes before the Runners arrived at the Drink Stop.
- 2 Bottoms on 171 & Botak Chin on 22 Runs – palindromes.
- Kokup 355, Cyclone Tracy 144, Astro 533 & Codpiece on 223 Runs – Prickly Bush likes double numbers.
- Drag On (taken by Klingon) – Trying to gate crash puppy school in the park.
CHARGES FROM THE FLOOR:
- Pseudo – Only 77 days to go before we have a new GM. Udder reckons Pseudo will be the next GM.
- Astro – The most long-winded Run Report that Punch has ever had to write.
- Cyclone Tracy – Happy Birthday. We all wish you Many Happy Returns of The Day.
- Bulukau – In his previous Hash in Fiji, used to drive everyone to each Run site in his B Double truck.
- Jarrod – Doesn’t know the difference between an On Back and a Check. (but it’s only his 3rd Run).
- Prince – Astro had a big dilemma deciding how to get to Hash and came by train, but forgot which station he was supposed to get off at. Was it Gardenvale or Gardiner?
- No Balls – Undue display of athleticism, leading the Pack, calling ON ON & having everyone follow her.
- Bulukau – Visiting us from Fiji, but not trying to encourage anyone to attend Interhash.
- Gargoyle – Luring new people into becoming LH3 members.
- Botak Chin – Utterly confused Bollywood by telling her the Run was across the road from the wrong station. (Botak Chin’s defence was that he was misled by the GM).
- Cheesecake – Sitting in her car drinking.
- Kokup – Grand Master in the Year of The Happy Feet.
- Pseudo – Could not find the run either and bipped at Klingon who was parked in the middle of the road, looking all around while trying to work out where he was supposed to be going.