Hash Trash for Hash 1449 21March 2008

Spring is here... warm and sunny, soon to become hot and sunny no doubt, then BOILING HOT and sunny over the coming weeks.

Another Paul trail near Saidnaya - his trails are like London buses.  You spend ages looking for the paint then you get 3 in a row!  One hold check - I've heard of saving paint but this is too much (or too little).  A nice, scenic (if a little short, perhaps) trail - at the end you had to be psychic to find the on inn, though, since it was nowhere near the trail that had been laid.  A bit of possibly competitive running on the last downhill bit (guilty, m'lud, but I'm suffering for it today).  There were various other parts with unmarked turns and false trails -  Paul gives you both intellectual and physical exercise at the same time.

In Arthur's absence Gabrielle stood in as RA (or perhaps obergruppenleutnantfuhrer).  As usual, she made sure that everyone had at least 3 down downs - I could see Paul and Rafi almost in tears at the effect on the Hash bank balance.  So here's the long list:

• Paul & Sausan (hares for the runners & walkers)
• No virgins, but returners Miguel (on his 6 monthly hash), Richard (lost & found) and Richard (WTB, ie me)
• Sex on the hash Ibrahim & Esther (when asked most of the male hashers voluntered for sex on the hash next week if a suitable partner could be provided)
• Short cutting: Red Hot, Lost & Found, Saed and Manar
• Fashion victim: Manar for not wearing his hash T shirt
• For not "toeing the line": Lost & found

There then followed a "fashion show" where the male hashers were forced to expose their stomachs for measurement.  Apparently this public humiliation was supposed to encourage some sort of dieting behaviour - and to start off the diet all were given a down down of beer - go figure.  Your humble scribe suggested that in order to make it fair we should then measure the ladies' chests to see if they will get any bigger over the coming weeks (I also volunteered to do the measuring) but received a down down instead - sometimes life is unfair.

RA forgot to ask about hares for next week so please contact Paul if you want to do it.  I would be happy to partner up with someone who has a car...

Gabrielle also asked if we could make efforts to bring friends along.

On On

WTB

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: there is a jazz concert at Dummar Church on the evening of Thursday 27th March, with the Russian Jazz band "North Project", with Elena from Scallywag on vocals.  Tickets are available on the door for SYP 1,000 and the price includes snacks and possibly even a drink (don't quote me on that one though).  The band are all professional music teachers from St Petersburg and they sounded great when they were here last year so check it out.