Another OBE

We celebrated Strine's Big Birthday this week - with cake!

This year also marks Strine's 34th year of hashing with Samford Hash, so she is one of the very few who were around in 1991 and who are still around....And she doesn't look all that different from the way she did in this early pic:

It was good to revisit the Clear Mountain trails that we haven't been on for a while, and to find out that they are just as flat as they always were, which is not very. Everything was looking wonderfully green following recent rain, and there were plenty of puddles for the dogs to sport in. Any possible markings would have been washed out, so the walkers followed a map while B&W acted as a live hare for the runners. Here are some of Snappy's shots of the gathering crowd and of the walk:

Back home beside the lake we feasted on chicken, pork, salad - and cake. Many thanks to our birthday girl hare, along with her assistants B&W and Trudi Fruti! (pics courtesy Snappy, Make an Offer, Idle Vice, Lax)

 

 

Photographer photographed:

 

 

 

And a down, down for the photographer's shoes:

 

 

Cash Converta's sunset view:

 

 

Elsewhere in the world, Superhacker writes that all is well in the UK, with Malpractice recently "celebrating the big 'two fat ladies' (bingo ref)". Hopalong is working in a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities school in London, living in the posh Highgate area, walking across Highgate Wood to Muswell Hill...and meeting TV stars like Hugh Dennis on the way. Superhacker is keeping "unbelievably busy running to and fro between [BFlat and Malpractice's] house and my flat with Hopalong's dog Teddy", and has somehow become "onsite manager with the bins and garden and general hiring of maintenance men" for the building her flat is in, "a building that has been in Bflat's family since about 1948". She continues: "I'm still cycling a lot and got an electric bike for my 60th birthday. I'm still playing in a local orchestra, and doing various activities with the u3a including learning French and managing the AI interest group." 

We may see Hopalong in the middle of next year, and with any luck, see Superhacker herself in October. We're looking forward to another of her famous jacaranda runs! And of course we wish her, BFlat, Malpractice and Hopalong all the best for Christmas and the New Year.

Remember the Red Dress Run on Dec 1st, and Hash Christmas on the 6th....

Next run/walk details
When: Sunday 23rd November, 5 pm
Where: Dayboro Childcare Centre carpark, opposite the IGA. A map!
Hares: Make an Offer and Banger

On, on!