The temperature soared to 40.9 which was probably the reason why only 26 of us were at the run. The hares wisely decided to mark the run in the morning and escaped the oppressive heat. Prairie Dog again used his favourite venue and used a new direction, towards Majestic Point and then back through the leafy suburb of Applecross – what a beautiful suburb it is. Surprisingly neither PD or Bushie remembered the old Majestic Hotel.
I think about 8 or 9 were on the run which was of 7.1 km duration and the leader APITW got back at 7.10. The master again led the walkers.
An interesting circle, Sir Knob was both On Sec and RA due to Rimmer being incognito and Dickie still in hospital and what a great job he did. First up was Phantom who tried to take over and was duly penalised and further disgraced himself by treading on Pothole’s dog’s foot. The dog was not happy but Prairie Dog assured us that no injury was sustained. Polly has a birthday on the 5th and returnees were Sea Gull and Topgun (thanks to Stewie for picking him up). And then Colonel was up – discretion this time was forgetting to return the cups. A bit of background – Prairie Dog forgot to take the cups last week (he also copped a down down) and the ever obliging Budgie took them home and washed them. As Budgie would not be at hash last night he dropped them off at Colonels place and you guessed it, Colonel forgot to bring them to the run – as I said last week, Colonel is an RA’s dream.
Polecat and Elbows were next, the story goes that Polecat offered to pick up Elbows on the way to hash. Elbows being the inquisitive person that he is honed by years of being a public servant questioned the geography here and asked Polecat why he would go so far out of his way. It turned out that Polecat had confused Elbows with someone else (identity unknown) and cancelled the offer, talk about an aging club!
Pitt gave an impassioned plea for someone to put their hand up for the position of On Sec. There are a number of people who could adequately do the job – you know who you are so please come forward.
Sir Tom gave a health report on an old member Sherlock and on Dick Tracy who is still in hospital – we look forward to getting Dickie back to hash. Crayfish was up to explain the poor polling for the Libs and being convincingly outgunned by Pauline and then Moses whose discretion was acting on a marking from a previous run and calling the pack back – the pack had just gone up a hill, had to come back then up the hill again when the error was identified. Sir Knob gave us 2 stories, the first about a dentist and chair adjustments and the second about 2 Hamersly hash men talking about how they explained coming home after a boozy night to their wives.
APITW gave a report on the run, it was a good review and a well deserved score of 9.1 was given. The meal was an excellent chilli con carne with rice, a dollop of yoghurt and hot chilli’s if you felt so inclined.
An enjoyable night, great venue, cold beers and our thanks to Prairie Dog for the effort he has put in, Sir Knob for filling in on circle duties and to Polly and Xmas for attending to wagon duties.
One of the photos is of a tree – enlarge the photo and at the top you will see a tree lopper in his hi vis clothing hauling up his chain saw. We spotted him while setting the run and were amazed that he could climb up to such a height.