Monday, 16 January 2012

Live hares and hills


Date: Saturday January 7th.
Hares: Orca, Nipples and Polar Bear.
Location: Somewhere off Leopard’s Hill Rd, near Adventure City.
Hash Number: 1650

The first Saturday hash of January got off to a slightly damp start with  a cloud burst and plenty of newcomers – namely Mooka and Tandy from “dahn sarf” in Livingstone, the Family Emerich with their oxygen thief Zander, of LICS (no, it’s not a titty bar), Daisy, Claire, “Spice Girl”, “Space Man”, Francis, Chris and Duracell – and plenty of returners in the form of Child Abuse, Sweet FA, Tummy, Titbits, Broken Hill, Evelyn and Mafuta.

Orca proclaimed the length to be “a short one” (snigger, snigger), completely neglecting to mention the fact there was a bloody big hill in the way! Soon the walkers, led by Nipples, were off, perambulating their way through someone’s back garden, while the runners were held by cries of “titty check” and “this one’s for the titties”. Hmmmm.

Locals looked on in bemusement as the runners gurned, sweated and swore their way up the first incline, led astray by several checks. Indeed, by the top of the first incline, Princess Fiona felt like he’d coughed up an ashtray and sweated out a month’s worth of African lager… which he had.
As per usual, Bo Pip led the way, bouncing from one chalk pile to another, while the rest of the pack followed.

The walkers soon lost their guide (Polar Bear) as flower picking was deemed to be a top priority and the Family Emerich joined the running pack, young Zander taking two or three tumbles on the way.
Back with the runners, the pack was held at the top of another monster incline, while several members investigated the possibility of short-cutting through a farm. Yapping dogs soon put that notion to bed and the pack were off again, climbing higher into the Leopard’s Hill bush (hohoho).

The runners joined the walkers, who were, by this point, blundering through the bush as the chalk piles became harder to pinpoint. At this point Orca dropped a bombshell, announcing the hares had run out of chalk. Mutiny on the Bounty was narrowly avoided as the walkers were led down the valley towards the beer!

The pack erupted into chaos; insults were slung and fingers were jabbed as the runners threatened to go all “Lord of the Flies” at the prospect of the Mosi being drunk in their absence. Lothario and Hamster quelled the rebellion by rightly pointing out that the Mosi was locked away in the car!

Orca - now “live hare” - led the runners on with some very bizarre imaginary holds, which only Bo Pip and his front runners actually bothered to check out! Condom Man and Goodison Two Shoes deliberated over recruit Aisling’s new hash name – which would be revealed to all in the circle.
Sliding down the scree and back into civilisation, the walkers were slowly reeled back in and, one by one, the Lusaka Hash House Harriers arrived back at the cars, sweaty and thirsty. Family Emerich were waiting, having doubled back and not been eaten by lions, as was speculated.

The circle formed and Condom Man led the way, welcoming the newbies and inviting them to kneel on the red carpet for a down-down before the real business started – hash snitching, down-downs and the dreaded hash sh*t nominations.

Condom Man was called to the circle and lambasted for his “Ray Mears” Benbar jerry can roof rack rig, complete with Lewis gun mounting, camo net arrangement and DSTV dish. Our beloved leader had kitted out his wheels for a Sahara-esque reconnaissance patrol to root out Rommel and the Africa Korps, only to grind his beloved benbar on a wall or some such large inanimate object. Serves you right, there’s plenty of petrol stations in Lusaka, you big ponce.

Bo was called in to celebrate his nuptials, while Titilator and Cream Dream were penalised for doing a “Boy Blue”.  Rene sank a down-down for failing to ask for marriage proposal permission and Purple Bush and Moby Dick sank some Mosi for smoking on the hash – shame on them.

In other business, Tarzan notched up 150 runs, while Purple Bush chalked 200. The circle raised their glasses in tribute to their sterling efforts – well done chaps.

Shrek 2 and Aisling were called into the circle for their renaming/naming. Shrek 2 was re-baptised as Princess Fiona and Aisling shall from this day forth be known as Knee Trembler –  she’s a physio… massage… rides a bike - geddit? Oh well….

Which left only one last item on the agenda – Hash Sh*t. Condemned to the bin, the mud-festooned, Mosi-ridden monstrosity of 2011 was duly replaced with a fetching pink number. Bo-pip was summoned to the centre for his crimes of “looking fit” and “going on his dad’s honeymoon”. Shame on you. Off came the shirt, out came the guns, swoon went the ladies.

And with that we trundled into the setting sun. On-on.

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