How relevant are Eric Bogle's words? Dumbbell came home in a wheelchair, Le W*nk with a swollen knee, and the vast majority of those who'd traveled to Queenstown came back with Covid-19! Obviously some of what happened on tour couldn't really stay on tour...but, gee, we had a good time nevertheless!
Here are just a few shots illustrating the Queenstown hashing experience - I'm sure more will follow in coming weeks.
The Virgin crew on its way - the Quantas crowd had already gone:
What a way to celebrate a 35th wedding anniversary!
Red Dress runners:
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Walkers:
The Winning Walker:
Some of Banger's pics and a couple of videos from the Ballbreaker run:
Part of the old pipeline run:
Two down, downs for Le W*nk:
And a down, down for Payback:
Wagging the flag:
On the Bee bus:
The famous Wanaka tree:
This last Sunday the stayathomes met in Samford once more and went on to the pub. Here are some words from Upstanding - thanks to him!:
"A small but high quality group of hashers gathered at John Scott Park. Comforting, that at least one member returned healthy and relatively unscathed from the land of the long white cloud. The group departed at 1701 hundred hours, completing a plethora of different routes to arrive back at the Samford hotel where the beer was back to 2024 prices. This was a big disappointment to the beermeister, as was his inability to secure a garlic bread to accompany his magnificent vegetarian pizza.
Overheard at the food counter: 'Would you like your pizza cut into 6 or 8 pieces?'. Idle Vice replied, '6 please. We couldn't possibly eat 8.'"
By next Sunday we should all be back from NZ - and all fit and well. We'll have one more village meet before resuming normal service.
Next run/walk details
When: Sunday 24th March, 5 pm
Where: John Scott Park, Samford Village. After at the Samford pub.
Hares: M. Promptu will set the trail. The Samford pub will cater.
On, on!
