107 BIRTHDAY REVELS
Saturday 15th August 2009
Slightly to the North of Chompol Road the enthusiastic echelons of Cha Am Hash House Harriers assembled for their Run Number 107 on Saturday 8th August which was was also CAH3's birthday. Numbers were a little lower than in recent weeks but maintained a very gratifying high 20's which is still very decent for this interregnum period when the regulars make short trips overseas and before the Snow Birds fly East for the winter. The day's Hares were Dave the Rave, Pink Lady, and G String and two of these stalwarts had the temerity to turn up and face the hostility of the Hash. Only Pink Lady reneged on the engagement, pleading ill health on the grounds of being afflicted with maritaal thrombosis in that her husband is a clot! The weather behaved admirably and Dave the Rave delivered a marathon monologue extolling the virtues of this trail and cataloguing all the things we would not encounter en route - dogs, cows, hills, barbed wire, thick bush, prickly
thorns - in short all the things that combine to make Hashing what it can be - a pure pain in the ass!
Released at last this merry band of pilgrims catapulted themselves along the path indicated and soon picked up the paper trail across the lovely level lea and into the wooded glades, always on well defined paths. At one point the dauntless Dave the Rave tried to form an almost Human Shield across the path to deny access to all comers and direct them off to the right. Most Hashers found this perfectly acceptable and acquiesced accordingly but there is always one, isn't there? In this case it was Scotch Tape, who was a Hare himself once and has some knowledge of the deviousness of the breed, who wanted to circumvent DTR and continue along the forbidden path until he was forcibly restrained and pointed in the right direction. As the trail progressed a certain amount of bobbing and eaving and zigzagging became necessary and this presented a Shortcutters' Charter to all but the very Front Runners. These Shortcutting opportunities were seized upon by all
thinking Hashers and not surprisingly went unreported in the Circle afterwards as the transgressors were so numerous as to justify a class action.
The Runners/Walkers split was reached and the field divided as indicated with Long Ron leading the Walkers in patriarchal fashion as they strode along the trail past the magnificent minarets of the mosque. The remainder of the trail passed off pleasantly and without untoward incident as the times and distances proved to be well-judged when the Runners re-emerged through the ranks of the Walkers at the last knockings so that both contingents were available to release the Leo almost simultaneously.
After a suitable period of unbridled jollification Dave the Rave in his capacity of G M called the Circle and DownDowned himself, Pink Lady, and G String as the outstandingly successful Hares, and in the physical absence of Pink Lady, Dave the Rave graciously consented to accept her DownDown for her. It was pointed out that G String was a Virgin Hare who had been led astray by his elders but had managed to lay trail with a minimum of disorientation. Returners were DownDowned - most notably the delectable Mary Can Can, our beautiful bouncing Belgian blonde bombshell who has returned to bolster the morale of the Hash. After a few more DownDowns, including Lolloping Lamppost and Scotch Tape for perceived misdemeanours, and some interminable anecdotes, Long Ron was invited to preview next week's H2H3 Run at the Springfield Dam. The G M now closed the Circle and issued directions to the VIP Condominium compound where the OnOnOn was arranged at the Big Easy
Restaurant. Hungry Hashers hied themselves to this venue to be greeted by a bounteous buffet and to wassail, carouse and make merry well into the latter part of the evening.
Why not join us after the Hash for our
On On On at a local restaurant
On On On you Hashers!!
