1138: Thunderbolts and Lightning Very,very frightening

It was a rainy day in Greendale and only a few mad Hashers gathered for a soaking. Thunder and lightning all around us and we mad souls were set for a live Hash.What some folk will endure for a drink from the Quench's box of amber nectar. Mr Comet explained all about live Hashes to those of us who hadn't done one before ( Mainly the kids) and proceeded to produce the required pieces of paper with things like Hare 1 , Hare 2 etc written on them. The Hashers were then asked to pick one piece of paper each and keep it secret. Some of the kids were brilliant at keeping it a secret except Ben. We all knew he was Hare 3. So we began following one of the youngsters Cara for trail 1 and being a good girl kept the run down to about 1km. The rain started pelting down but did it dampen our enthusiasm? Not a chance. Dave set off on trail 2 after Coach and Penelope Pisst up led the Hashers on a couple of falsies. The On In was Ceeweed and he called it after Coach had summoned the runners with a Ni No shout and a waving of the arms a distance away in the desert.Postman Pat and Fran and a few of the hard of understanding ran towards the man who had to explain the folly of their ways. What the girls uttered was unprintable ! First in was Clouseau who wore sailing shoes and splashed in every puddle on the way back to the cars. Comments were made by Del, and Lo and behold the Spy was the coach. He bucketed Ben and Oscar for unruly behaviour during the comments, Postman Pat for the Non purchasing of Strawberry Cheesecake ice cream from Baskin Robbins and Clouseau for getting the number of the runs wrong again. The rain kept off long enough for Fran to take a few more snaps from Simon's camera and the Hardy lot a few more amber nectars. On On