1157 Auf Wiedersehen Pets

Jessy Roberts took us out to our Jacques Klusseaus underwater launch spot and dragged us through (well marked I thought) soft sand up to our armpits - charming in 40 degrees heats and no Bummer in sight. Numbers were good, was it the food or the end of term that got us all out? Jaws hated it, and that was about the Baker's best compliment on the run. Not a hill in sight but I thought it was excellent! On On the hares!
Morangie was a surprising spy (I'd've banned him for a year for relinquishing the earlier opportunity), but he did well. First the 3 leavers were soaked to their underwear, and then given the chance to bucket the rest of the hash (3 buckets worth). The Doughnut Van man thought he had subtly escaped and so a 5th bucket, with the icy dregs of the cool box, were administered.
There were presentations, representations and tears as we fondly bade farewell to 2 of our most regular stalwarts - Piste Up and Gump, and the Baker who had once been "the most popular and nicest".
There were pizza, samosas. The sunset was gorgeous. It and the Dukhan Tigers made their way down and the people talked gently and everyone lived happily,,,, summertime and the living is easy.

1156

More as it gets remembered.
Coach avoided the Penelope P'Up's bucket and snuck off on leave.
On On!

It was only a temporary memory loss

This week Danny alias Jaws redeemed himself by remembering to set the trail. He even remembered where he had set it which was a bonus. Moderate length was mentioned and the girls blushed. Off we went over half of Khatiyah or so it seemed. The summer heat was getting to a lot of the hashers and there's more walkers than runners now,for a few more weeks until the mass exodus.Then we'll be down to minimum numbers. Trail 1 was a lengthy one and Trail 2 was bang on the correct length for this time of year as was Trail 3. The On-in was found by GPS and off he ran miraculously in the right direction back towards the cars. Gump tried his hardest to get close but again had to settle for second in. The "First in" toast was given by GPS and comments supplied by Gregory who was far too kind to the Hare. Spy for this week was Gump and he uncerimoniously dumped litres of water on Jaws for last weeks run, Mark Roberts for smirking, Clouseau for letting Jaws off last week when he was spy,Ceweed, Son of Rock, Sideshow,Bubbles for going on leave,Penelope Pisst up coz it's her 3rd last run, Fran for doing a cinderella and leaving her shoes at everybody's house, Byron for asking for another amber nectar at 3am and some of the kids for just being there. Next weeks trail will be set by Coach so be prepared. On on.

1154 Mr Al Zymer forgets to set trail

Sundays Hash was a live one. Jaws forgot that he was supposed to set the trail. Something to do with the falling down stuff affecting the grey matter on Saturday morning. Mind you half the camp must have felt the same way as panadol sales went through the roof according to the sales staff at Marmars.
So to the tale of the trails. Being a Live Hash you took your chance picking up a slip of neatly folded paper from the Hash masters hat. Trails 1.2 & 3 were there alongside 2 falsies, 2 comments,the On In and the dreaded spy. There were also a lot of blanks and the kids faces told the truth about getting blanks.
GPS led the first trail and carried it for a reasonable length up a gentle slope to give us all a scenic view overlooking Khatiyah. Rocky threw in a falsie at this point and had a few of the youngsters following him like a modern day Pied piper. Fran took up the real trail 2 and ran the Hash along a Bund wall and onwards and upwards up another jebel. There were a few of the regulars breathing through the lower ends of their anatomy at this point. Sideshow the wee rascal ran the longest false trail 3 ever, with all the Hashers in tow, except Firecracker and Coach who were the hares for real trail 3.They stayed around the check-in for trail 2 smiling as Sideshow called false trail. The Hares called On on and the short trail 3 was on. Miss Disgrace was the On In and was extremely lenient to the runners and called it as she headed back to the cars. The hash has been lucky and has had few accidents while running over the rocky terrain, I think it's 2 in the last ten years Mark Roberts and Roy Hedges spring to mind but yesterday we had number 3. Rocky went head over heels on the run in being tripped up by Sideshow his daughter ! Minor scratches thankfully and no transfusion required.Bubbly had her first aid kit out and the nurses uniform on in a flash while she administered a bit of T.L.C. to Rocky's skint knee.
The first in toast was given by Clouseau, comments were given by Methesulah and Chip stealer and then the dreaded spy stepped up. Clouseau ! Well as soon as he stepped into the circle Coach and Morangie could take the Tee shirts off as they knew they were in for a soaking. No reason needed, Meths was soaked for critiscism and Gump got the bucket because he was in the Kids pool at the Kids Hash party. All the kids were soaked for spilling gallons of water from the pool over Clouseau's shoes at the party and the Hash master had his share of the bucket for slagging the spy off. On On until next weeks trail which is due to be set by Jaws. We will see if Al-Zymer shows up again!

The Long and Winding trail that leads to your.....

Glenmorangie is world famous for it's smoothness,being the colour of gold and havind a pleasing after taste. This does not describe this hash or our Morangie. Our Morangie told porkie pies in telling us his 3 trails were shorter than last weeks Canton clans effort. Trail 1 was a long and winding trek through soft sand along pipelines and ending up miles away on the beach. It had the runners puffing and panting and the walkers muttering. Trails 2 & 3 were even longer and the walkers who attempted trail 1 only were at least 30 minutes back at the cars before the first of the runners could be seen as a wee dot away in the distance. Jaws and Gump were in the race to be first in and it was Jaws who overcame the desert sand and heat to have the honour of giving the "First In" toast. He was that knackered that he gave the speech while leaning on a 4 by 4 which was a bucketable offence. This was not missed by Rocky the " Spy ". He also bucketed Gump for racing, Morangie for telling fibs and for the long trails, GPS and Hash ash for non compliance of "World Non Smoking day", Mr Comet for handing the bugle over to a" non compusmentos" Hasher on the camp, Hot to trot for being the "Non compus" Hasher and Rob the Rigger for having the audacity to go on leave. With no football to go home to the hashers stayed long into the evening until the quench was no more and the sun had set. On on until next week.