Run 2698 – Scummie in North Perth

Run 2698 – Scumbag at Les Lilleyman Reserve Car Park, North Perth
The pack assembled on a beautiful and warm summers evening in the shade of some tall, leafy gum trees with views over the city. Scumbag and his co-hair, Xmas, promised a good run. Excited dogs and Hashmen all barking (mad?) but in a fine mood were chomping at the bit waiting to be unleashed on the neighbourhood of North Perth.
Scummy confused an easily confused pack, hard of hearing, by announcing that this was going to be a multi-tedium run! Nobody looked surprised, at first, but we came to realise he meant that this was to be a multi-media run. No less confused because we had thoughts of trail directions being beamed to our phones, ipads, e-watches, or whatever, from satellites above North Perth, to guide us on the trail and eventually back to the bucket. Wow… Scummy had entered the IT age! Sadly, it was not to be. By a multi-media run, Scummy meant chalk, cheese, flour and paper. Ahhh, a sigh of relief arose from IT-challenged members of the pack – something they were familiar with and could understand.
With a blast of the horn, we were off in a northerly direction through the park to London St., and then south on Dunedin St., and then in a westerly direction for a couple of kms. Early on we got lost a couple of times but managed to pick up the trail again until some/most of us lost the trail completely. When we were on trail, it was clearly marked with chalk arrows about every 10 metres or so, sometimes closer, but when the trail markings switched from chalk to an alternative media that Scummy mentioned at the start of the run, the trail disappeared and Hashman were left floundering and running in circles lost and confused. Perhaps the green cheese melted in the heat, or the paper blew away – we’ll never know. Anyway, the pack became scattered and made their own way home. I believe that I lost the trail about 3/4 of the way round.
Conman came a cropper in the kids’ playground when he attempted to demonstrate his acrobatic skills on the swings only to crack his head on the crossbar and tumble to the ground in a crumbled heap. He was helped back to bucket by Sir Tom Arse and other walkers, but he must have been feeling very poorly because he did not stay for a medicinal beer, or two, and headed straight home for ministrations that were obviously better than beer. At the Circle, Reluctant was not reluctant to be Conman’s stand-in for the down-down and kindly filled the role. Wishing you a speedy recovery Conman!
During the food, but after the Circle, Seagull arrived after being lost in the wilderness of North Perth. He had become disoriented by Scummy’s multi-media markings. He showed that while he might be a seagull, he is no homing pigeon. He was late for his down-down and Q gracefully stood in for his dad.
There were some good jokes in the Circle, especially one by Ramrod about the discounted dental treatment. If you missed it, ask him to tell you.
Antman provided entertainment for the group by taking 20 minutes or so to reverse his Sunbeam Rapier into a disabled parking spot so that Princess would have an uninterrupted view of the proceedings of the Circle. However, after parking the car Princess promptly fell asleep and slept through the whole Circle – how did Antman miss a down-down for that one?
The food was good with ham slices served with tomato beetroot and cheese on a bap. Sufficient for everyone and appreciated by all.
The run was awarded a score of 1.9, because the trail was hard to find in places and the pack became separated. Overall, in my view it was good one. I enjoyed the run and enjoyed the company afterwards.
OnOn
R’brnr

Author: John Najar

self funded retiree