1139: The Rocky road to Dublin

The numbers were up from the previous week due to the beautiful weather and our Hares for this week were the Morgan & Canton clans. So off we drove past the Sailing club along past the Sheiks palace and along the coast track to the QP picnic site. There were easier ways to get there but the Hares wanted to test all the four by fours and shake us all down to our socks. 3 Trails marked in orange and frugally marked as well. In these days of credit crunches and teaching your kids not to be wasteful there was not a drop of paint left from the one can our hares used. Micro dots of paint to show us the way and they were an eyesight test for our elder hashers.
For the time of year the trails were a good length and once your eyes became accustomed to the markings it was enjoyable watching Jaws leading all the kids down trail 3. (A modern day Pied piper) First in was Postman Pat & comments were made by Dave Baker and secondary ones by Danny Clarke. The spies for the day were one of Dels clan and one of Danny's ( The girls names escape me for the moment ( Ella and Christina ? ) and will no doubt be a bucket in the near future for yours truly ) and the girls buckleted their dads for being dad, Miss Disgrace for pinching juice from the Kids quench,Mr Comet and Gump for just being there, Hangabout coz they think he's cute and Penelope Pisst up because she's a teacher !
The Hashmaster informed the Hash that there is a Ball coming up on the 14th May and that this is a Formal Dance and not a raffle of someones unmentionable. There will be further circulars about it in the forthcoming weeks ahead. On On

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