Chicken run

Le W*nk's chooks are very much free range animals - as we found out on a quick loop past the old homestead. The walkers behaved rather like free range animals as well, refusing to follow the trail around the State Forest Park on the way home.

Mind you, there were a couple of "minimal flour" points where the runners would also have been like headless chooks if the hare hadn't been with us to point out minute traces of white.

It was chook again at the on, on where we feasted on some toothsome chicken burgers.

Here are a few answers to that age-old question of why the chicken crossed the road:

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.

KARL MARX: It was a historical inevitability.

RONALD REAGAN: I forget.

JERRY SEINFELD: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place, anyway?

EINSTEIN: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

ANDERSEN CONSULTING: Deregulation of the chicken's side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. Andersen Consulting, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM), Andersen helped the chicken use its skills, methodologies, knowledge, capital and experiences to align the chicken's people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework. Andersen Consulting convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens along with Anderson consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was held in a park-like setting enabling and creating an impactful environment which was strategically based, industry-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified market message and aligned with the chicken's mission, vision, and core values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total business integration solution. Andersen Consulting helped the chicken change to become more successful.

COLONEL SANDERS: I missed one?

Next run details
When: Sunday 29 April, 4 pm
Where: Burton Lane Park, Burton Lane, Samford. A map!
Hares: Two no-names

On, on!

Tossing and turning

Toss O'Coin was responsible for turning the walkers left, then left, and then left, and then left again...until they decided to break out of the circle and do something different. Payback, the tosser for the runners, produced a more random result that looped us out in the direction of Highvale and then Camp Mountain. Potluck laid on the usual huge spread.

It seems our Christmas in "July" event this year will be on the first weekend of August - and that the venue will be near the Conondale Ranges. We're looking forward to lots of walking and running, one of Payback's wine tasting sessions, and as much of the traditional Christmas dinner we can produce in camp ovens....

Next week Le W*nk was going to invite us to help the Council demolish his old house. He has had to change the venue, but perhaps we can visit the old place en route . So bring your spray cans and sledge hammers - just in case.

Next run details
When: Sunday 22nd April, 4 pm
Where: Bunyaville State Forest Park (enter from Old Northern Road, turn right, meet in the picnic area down in the valley.) A marks the spot on this map.
Hare: Le W*nk

Please bring a

On, on!

Easter eggxercise

Because of aging grey matter, this old blogger can only remember one of Leave Pass's Easter jokes:

Q: What do you get if you pour boiling water down a rabbit hole?
A: A hot, cross bunny....

But he had lots of other good ones!

There were not that many of us to enjoy them. Lots of Samford Hashers were away for Easter, so the number of participants on this year's Easter run/walk were about the same as the number in the current Queensland opposition.

Those who missed missed out on a very pleasant stroll through bushland and burbs, and a scrumptious roast dinner - brilliant pork and crackling, spuds with garlic, carrots and sesame, and roast beetroot - what a feast! Many thanks to our hares - who also laid on a traditional Easter egg hunt before the full moon rose over the water (as arranged)...well done! (Topless made another attempt at dognapping...this must stop!)

Back to basics next week.

Next run details
When: Sunday 15th April, 4 pm (golly, the year is getting away from us)
Where: John Scott Park, Samford Village
Hares: Live Hare (TBA); Pot Luck will supply the dinner - i.e. please bring something to share....

On, on!

There was some disagreement

about how cold the water in Cedar Creek was this Sunday. Payback asked: if it was so warm, then what were the penguins doing?


The hares had set a shortish run/walk to allow time for a dip, and those who braved the water were considerably refreshed. Among the bravest were a couple of our visitors, who made one helluva splash leaping in. Good to see you again, Jammies, and your 3 Thirsty companions!

Early arrivals at the on, on made straight for the beer...


and wine...


And Haughty demonstrated how not to cook snags:


Banger, the sausage expert, missed a run a couple of weeks ago - and here's the reason. He'd been in a fight with a wasp, and the wasp won. Better luck with your other fights, mate....


Here are a few of Charcoal's extracts of letters from British council house tenants - as heard at the on, on:

Their 18 year old son is continually banging his balls against my fence.

I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof. I think it was bad wind the other day that blew them off.

My lavatory seat is cracked, where do I stand?

The next door neighbour has got this huge tool that vibrates the whole house and I just can't take it anymore.

The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is cleared.

I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would you please do something about the noise made by the man on top of me every night.

It's the dog's mess that I find hard to swallow.

Next week it's our traditional Easter Egg run, once more brought to you by Charcoal and Strine.

Next run details
When: Sunday 8th April, 4 pm
Where: Corner Buranda Road and Clear Mountain Road, Clear Mountain
Hares: Charcoal and Strine

On, on!