The Young Visitors

On the weekend when Queensland became a one-party state Hopalong celebrated her 9th birthday with a party of her own. A number of her guests stayed for the run/walk, and some of these partied on at the on, on as well!

Other visitors turned up from as far away as Arizona (G'day, Jammies!), Singapore and South Africa. Here's a shot of some of the fine folk who dropped by:



Good to meet youse all!

Superhacker and Hopalong obviously had a really busy day. When did they find the time to set the run? They served up some cool and scenic running/walking through the St Lucia golf course and along the river, and threw in some bonus hills as well. Thanks, hares! (Good stew, too....)

There's a bit of a theme developing here: golf courses...one-party states...Ewesh*gger treated us to a description of the amazing golfing prowess of the late Kim Jong Il. I didn't know that he hit 11 holes-in-one on the one and only occasion on which he played golf! But 17 security guards couldn't have got it wrong, could they?

Here are some more fascinating facts about the Dear Leader. What these fail to reveal is that this secret hasher completed over 1000 hash runs every year, and drank 2 cartons of beer after every run. Or am I perhaps getting him confused with Le W*nk?

The days are drawing in rapidly - so from next Sunday we'll be meeting at our 4 pm winter start time. Please take note! We are not fooling, despite the date!

And next week's run/walk will be timed to allow us a bit of a Cedar Creek waterhole swim before the on, on. So bring your togs/swimmers/jammies...the water is beautiful at the moment....

Next run details
When: Sunday 1st April, 4 pm - note, 4 pm!
Where: Andy Williams Park, Cedar Creek Road, Cedar Creek
Hares: Haughty and Culture

On, on!

The green green grass of home

The grass around our hares' home was a vibrant, lush green - and, following weeks of rain, so was the grass all around Dayboro. We managed to track a good deal of it (and quantities of mud as well) all over the hares' verandah, family room, and kitchen. Why do people put up with us?

Banger and Make an Offer had laid on a wonderfully scenic excursion around some of the back routes and byeways of the village. The builders' crayon they used lasted pretty well in the rain - NB for future hares! Nevertheless the runners missed a left turn and added a few hundred metres to their route....

We had a dognapper in our midst (isn't there a Disney movie about someone like that?) Fortunately a few phone calls around the neighbourhood did locate an owner for the furry friend that Topless had acquired en route.

Here are a few shots from the occasion...

Toga: Goody! Dinner on legs!
Kumo: Bring it on! Bring it on!


Relaxing at the on, on (and dropping grass and mud everywhere):




Wedding photos:


The mandatory group portrait (photography by Topless):


Thanks to our first-time hares! A great run, great meal, and very well-organised weather!

Next week we're heading once more for the inner suburbs and the great grey-green greasy Brisbane river....

Next run details
When: Sunday 25th March, 5 pm
Where Robertson Park, Indooroopilly (Taringa? St. Lucia?). Here's a map anyway.
Hares: Superhacker and Hopalong

Please bring a...

On, on!

Kangaroo Point Park

was the venue, and it clearly was the place to be on a Sunday afternoon. Congrats to our hares for introducing us to this new happening place and for shoving other people out of the way in order to get us a table. Next time we'll have to remember to bring some weights to carry up and down the stairs, as the bootcampers were doing....

It was a lovely day - nice weather, beaut views, and lots of interesting people and activities to observe: it's good to get out of our ruts now and then!

Here are some of the walkers going down on the notorious Kangaroo Point stairs (no comments of that sort, thank you!)



And here are some of Hardcore's wedding pics. Great shots! She and Nathan obviously had a triffic time on honeymoon, after being upgraded to business class on the way over to Hawaii. Then karma struck: they had to fork out an extra $2500 to get home - traveling cattle class on a carrier that hadn't gone bust....

For next week's run we're heading back to somewhere we haven't been for a while - the bustling metropolis of Dayboro. It's Make an Offer and Banger's maiden run, and it'll be good to have a crowd there to support them.

Next run details
When: Sunday 18th March, 5 pm
Where: Banger and Make an Offer's Dayboro dacha
Hares: Make an Offer and Banger

If you need directions to this run please call or email us.

On, on!

Mud wrestling

When Evacuate and his assistant set the run the sun was shining and the track - though a little muddy - was quite trafficable. By the time of the run it was raining reasonably steadily, and the muddy slopes became (shall we say) a trifle challenging.

Still, it's runs like this that are memorable. As the old song says - "These are the times we will dream about, and we'll call them the good old days...."

Cash Converta's comment: "Like Kuching, without the bamboo...."

The final creek crossing was a good chance to sluice off muddy shoes - and the water was beautiful. Great curry followed, courtesy of Evacuate! Thanks, hares!

Here are a few shots of some muddy drowned rats at the on, on:











And here's another in our current series of Samford Hash blonde jokes - this one from Culture, a natural blonde:

A blonde walks into a dry cleaner's. The man behind the counter is a little deaf.

"Can you have this dress cleaned by tomorrow?" she asks.

The dry cleaner (being hard of hearing), puts his hand up to his ear. "Come again?" he asks.

"No, no," says the blonde. "This time it's mayonnaise."

A Big Smoke run this week....

Next run details
When: Sunday 11th March, 5 pm
Where: Corner Main Street and River Terrace, Kangaroo Point. A map!
Hares: Bigtop and Urass

On, on!