Topless for 10 years!

Topless celebrated a 10-year anniversary as a member of Samford Hash this Sunday. Who knows how many runs she has attended over that period, or how many times she has acted as Hash photographer? It would be a staggering number!

In honour of the occasion she treated us to a seaside stroll, some authentic German cuisine (including a most notable cake) and champagne! Many, many thanks for a very pleasant afternoon! (The cake caption reads "10 yrs Topless")

Here are a few selected hashers lazing on a Sunday afternoon near the beach:

Young Zachary took part in his first Hash excursion this Sunday as well. Hardcore had plenty of voluntary help on her first Hash run since his birth.

And this time of year is always busy - so make sure that you have entered the following in your diary:
- Hash Christmas on Saturday 16th December
- Red Dress Run on Monday 11th December

Next run details
When: Sunday 3rd December, 5 pm
Where: Undambi Rotary Reserve, Mt. O'Reilly Road, Samford Valley. A map!
Hares: M. Promptu will set the run. Potluck will cater (please bring something to share)

On, on!

A business opportunity

Leave Pass has every qualification to set up in business as a rainmaker, should he want to. If you look back over the annals of Samford Hash, you'll see that an extraordinarily high proportion of the trails he sets have been washed out. The same was true this week, when only traces of the chalk and flour he had put down on Sunday morning remained. In fact it was still raining as we set out at 5 o'clock....

So - how much would drought-stricken farmers be prepared to pay for these talents? Give it a go, Leave Pass! Offer to set some runs out beyond the black stump!

We retired to chez Leave Pass for a really tasty dose of Thai cuisine, while the dogs gamboled and passed flatus (look it up) around us. Many thanks and congratulations, rain-man!

And good luck to the hashers taking part in (and helping with) the latest SPADEwerx production this weekend (Budgie, Miss Behavin', Shaggy, Cadbury, Superhacker, Hopalong, Haughty and Culture.) Break a leg, guys!

Next run details
When: Sunday 26th November, 5 pm
Where: Topless's seaside villa on the Redcliffe peninsula
Hare: Topless

(If you need directions to this run, please email us)

On, on!

Hashy birthday quartet

We celebrated no fewer than 4 birthdays this Sunday with a cake and - of course - a traditional down, down for the awesome foursome:

One of the quartet had just turned 18, so she joined her mum in a glass or two of something pink and alcoholic:

It seems a long time since her early years in Samford Hash!

Our hare Footsie (ably assisted by Payback) took us on a circuit along the Pine River and through the surrounding burbs - and dished up a tasty curry to follow. Many thanks!

Here are some members of the anarchic group as we came home in dribs and drabs:

Mile High presented Superhacker and Miss Demeanour with a Camino Arrow award for their skill in finding and following arrows:

We should also record for posterity that Redbreast and Jamesbondage made a name for themselves this week by forgetting that they had a grandchild in their care when they headed off home from church....

Next run details
When: Sunday 19th November, 5 pm
Where: Leave Pass's Upper Kedron hacienda
Hare: Leave Pass

On, on!

Idiot-drought broken!

Every village needs its idiots, and those who care about such things must have been getting a bit worried over the last few weeks. What had happened to a number of the idiots who yell "On, on!" on Sunday afternoons? Well, some had gone interstate, some overseas, and some had simply gone AWOL. But the first of our 2017-18 summertime runs saw the idiot-drought broken and a goodly crowd assemble at John Scott Park. And - surprise, surprise - we all got the start time right!

Our hare Floater took us along some byways and through some backwoods we haven't seen for quite a while. It was good to head off in these various unfamiliar directions - and some of the walkers headed off in some even more varied and unfamiliar directions on the way back....Tuna bake, salad and cup cakes followed. Thanks, Madam Hare!

Mile High and Hugandkiss have been keeping up what has become a bit of a Hash tradition - walking the Camino. They both described it as "unforgettable", and Mile High also summed it up as "a very long hash, with Mass as well as beer to follow." They went on to celebrate Hugandkiss's birthday in Morocco - wow! Here are a few of their pics:

Another bunch of hashers had headed off to Northern NSW and some are still there. Here are some of Eweshggr's pics from this excursion:

And Haughty and Culture returned from Greece with tales of having tramped the hills of Ios and Paros and the clifftops of Santorini. But they found the best walking in the hills of Arcadia where they followed the Menalon Trail down into the Lousios River gorge and back up again. Very scenic, but quite a climb.

Next run details
When: Sunday 12th November, 5 pm
Where: H.T. Ireland Reserve, Eaton's Hill. A map!
Hare: Footsie and friends.

On, on!

Mind The Gap Halloween Horror

Escargot set a trail along Breakfast creek in very muggy, fuggy, sticky, steamy, clammy weather.. (she set it out and back – using magic witchipoo disappearing green chalk .. and something especially wicked for the runners…)

Did Superhacker use some of the leftover chalk as lippy?  

Many of the hash notables were away Haughty and Culture, were in Greece ...

 ‘Όταν λείπει η γάτα, χορεύουν τα ποντίκια.’

EweShaggr, Charcoal and Strine, Payback and Cashconverta were making trouble at the Clarence Valley Country Muster.

So, even though Tinkerbell paid us a long overdue visit, it was an under powered pack of beasties and ghoulies that set forth this year. The group was made up of a mini-coven of three sexy witches, three barely-human hybrid creatures, and the mutant love-child of Casper and Pierrot.

The witches had been brewing up cauldrons of chili - enough to feed and army, and the Western suburbs were brewing a storm.. There was a green sky, and hail was  predicted, quite haunting...

The rain didn't arrive until we were safely sheltering in the bandstand.

Superhacker went back to find her washing quite dry in Indooroopilly,  Meanwhile in Dayboro... (courtesy of the Courier Mail)

Next Run Details

When: Sunday 5th November 5pm Note ***5pm***

Where: John Scott Park 

Hares:  Scratchit and Floater