Venue: Farmer Pierre’s Chilanga Att 49
Hares: Little Weed, Extremely Pressed and Schumichael
Farmer Pierre’s Last Stand
For the second week running, the runners, numbered at 27, were in the majority. Another positive feature – there were no loafers. Starting from Pierre’s lawn, the trail stretched in a north-easterly direction across maize stubble fields and through scraggy burnt-off scrubland, ideal carbon footprint country. Although the route, threaded between wooded kopjes, never ventured more than 2km away from Zambia’s chief transport infrastructure, i.e. the Great North Road and the main railway line the pack enjoyed the isolated tranquillity of the pristine African bush.
The Duke on a return holiday visit led the charge on the hash horn. Several runners contested the rigorous pace but fewer putative participants managed to reach the 2nd hold well ahead of the main pack by dint of eschewing the 4km loops which joined the two holds via a series of serious hillocks.
Everyone, man, woman and child, was back within 65minutes, whereupon a prompt circle was called. HM Lothario and RA Silver Bullet sped through a list of mainly anonymous down-downs (they need to acquaint themselves with the names of all members of the their congregation) details of which were deduced more or less as follows;
Hares: Little Weed, Extremely Pressed and Schumichael
Farmer Pierre’s Last Stand
For the second week running, the runners, numbered at 27, were in the majority. Another positive feature – there were no loafers. Starting from Pierre’s lawn, the trail stretched in a north-easterly direction across maize stubble fields and through scraggy burnt-off scrubland, ideal carbon footprint country. Although the route, threaded between wooded kopjes, never ventured more than 2km away from Zambia’s chief transport infrastructure, i.e. the Great North Road and the main railway line the pack enjoyed the isolated tranquillity of the pristine African bush.
The Duke on a return holiday visit led the charge on the hash horn. Several runners contested the rigorous pace but fewer putative participants managed to reach the 2nd hold well ahead of the main pack by dint of eschewing the 4km loops which joined the two holds via a series of serious hillocks.
Everyone, man, woman and child, was back within 65minutes, whereupon a prompt circle was called. HM Lothario and RA Silver Bullet sped through a list of mainly anonymous down-downs (they need to acquaint themselves with the names of all members of the their congregation) details of which were deduced more or less as follows;
Hares
Little Weed, Extremely Pressed and Schumichael were on duty yet again to good effort, receiving a mark of 9/10 from Rebecca who was very impressed b y the length of the run, the good views, and by the scar and soot smuts she picked up en route
New urinals
A strong North American contingent included Bryna (Canada); Shana, Sara and Tom (USA); and the more specific Jennifer (Colarado)
Recidivists
The Duke, The Duchess of Fife and family on a visit from Iceland to chill out; and the family of Dick, Monique and Hodiam, returning to LH3 for the first time since 1990
RA abuser
RA Silver Bullet took Monique to task for some imagined sleight (or perhaps she raced past him?)
Amnesiac
The Duchess of Fife could not, or chose not to, remember her hashname
Their Excellencies
Buju and Shevchenko, late on parade as usual acted as surrogates for certain SADC summit leaders, namely presidents Kabila and Dos Santos respectively, who missed the official opening of the conference
ZP
Buju was the obvious person to blame for last week’s traffic chaos in Lusaka
Blackout
Continuing on the SADC theme, RA Silver Bullet singled out electrician Penguin for responsibility for the Mulungushi power outage, until Pierre volunteered he information that his wife Catherine used to be a director of Zesco, so she then shared a triple together with Audrey, sitting in for Tomasina Solomao and Pierre himself, condemned by his accent, representing SA’s president
Geography failure
Lebanon thought that when she visited Ireland recently, she was in the HM’s homeland, but he is Welish
Hash heroes
Little Weed, Extremely Pressed and Schumichael were commended for having set 3 consecutive hashes
Baptisms
In order mainly to reduce his own confusion. HM Lothario put on a play within a play by Shakespeare in the act of baptising Brandon by the hashname of To Be and partner Bryna by the hashname of Not To Be
Farmer
Pierre drank from his new mug which he reported stolen within minutes
Announcers
1. The soon to be homeless To Be is looking for a cottage to rent; 2. Wild Thing – biltong for sale; 3. HM Lothario run 1408 will be at a new venue on Leopard’s hill road, near Adventure City – exact details TBA 4. The HM again, hash committee meeting on Tues 21st August at 1830hrs. Chez the RA Ibex hill and 5. HM yet again, Wheelchair run six weeks away, attendance compulsory for all hashers and donations, sponsors etc needed to support this annual charity function
Road hog
Pierre raced past the HM leaving him in the dusty wake of his farm truck
Hash horn
Pelican, who jogged to the venue gladly gave up to the horn to The Duke who denied laying claim to it
Chatter boxes
Randy and Ida rabbitted on about the school curriculum throughout the afternoon
Phoney astronomers
Claiming to have walked to a vantage point in the forest last week, allegedly to observe the sunset, Little Weed and Nine Lives were seen desecrating together in the moonlight
Hash Shit
No contest, according to HM Lothario, who, 13 years ago, on the occasion of LH3’s inaugural run on Pierre’s farm, had a run-in, a tete-a-tete with a tree. Both the tree and the HM were badly damaged in the collision necessitating tree and human surgery. The tree has made a full recovery but the jury is still out on the HM . The hash has a long memory (even the HM in this instance) and guess who planted the tree? Yes, Pierre, and HM Lothario, thick as a plank, lumbered straight into it, wouldn’t you know Timber City etc. So in 2007, HM Lothario extracts revenge for something that happened in 1994, So hashshit for Pierre
Receding hareline
1st Sept Bin Dealing, Per
30th Sept Sunday Wheelchair run
8th Sept Cabbage
6th Oct Cool dude
15th Sept Francophoney
13th Oct Blockhead, The Rabbi
22nd Sept Silver Bullet, Cruella D’evil
20th Oct Buju, Floss, Wild thing
29th Sept Mansell, BYO Braai
27th Oct Bullshit, Little John
On On!
Little Weed, Extremely Pressed and Schumichael were on duty yet again to good effort, receiving a mark of 9/10 from Rebecca who was very impressed b y the length of the run, the good views, and by the scar and soot smuts she picked up en route
New urinals
A strong North American contingent included Bryna (Canada); Shana, Sara and Tom (USA); and the more specific Jennifer (Colarado)
Recidivists
The Duke, The Duchess of Fife and family on a visit from Iceland to chill out; and the family of Dick, Monique and Hodiam, returning to LH3 for the first time since 1990
RA abuser
RA Silver Bullet took Monique to task for some imagined sleight (or perhaps she raced past him?)
Amnesiac
The Duchess of Fife could not, or chose not to, remember her hashname
Their Excellencies
Buju and Shevchenko, late on parade as usual acted as surrogates for certain SADC summit leaders, namely presidents Kabila and Dos Santos respectively, who missed the official opening of the conference
ZP
Buju was the obvious person to blame for last week’s traffic chaos in Lusaka
Blackout
Continuing on the SADC theme, RA Silver Bullet singled out electrician Penguin for responsibility for the Mulungushi power outage, until Pierre volunteered he information that his wife Catherine used to be a director of Zesco, so she then shared a triple together with Audrey, sitting in for Tomasina Solomao and Pierre himself, condemned by his accent, representing SA’s president
Geography failure
Lebanon thought that when she visited Ireland recently, she was in the HM’s homeland, but he is Welish
Hash heroes
Little Weed, Extremely Pressed and Schumichael were commended for having set 3 consecutive hashes
Baptisms
In order mainly to reduce his own confusion. HM Lothario put on a play within a play by Shakespeare in the act of baptising Brandon by the hashname of To Be and partner Bryna by the hashname of Not To Be
Farmer
Pierre drank from his new mug which he reported stolen within minutes
Announcers
1. The soon to be homeless To Be is looking for a cottage to rent; 2. Wild Thing – biltong for sale; 3. HM Lothario run 1408 will be at a new venue on Leopard’s hill road, near Adventure City – exact details TBA 4. The HM again, hash committee meeting on Tues 21st August at 1830hrs. Chez the RA Ibex hill and 5. HM yet again, Wheelchair run six weeks away, attendance compulsory for all hashers and donations, sponsors etc needed to support this annual charity function
Road hog
Pierre raced past the HM leaving him in the dusty wake of his farm truck
Hash horn
Pelican, who jogged to the venue gladly gave up to the horn to The Duke who denied laying claim to it
Chatter boxes
Randy and Ida rabbitted on about the school curriculum throughout the afternoon
Phoney astronomers
Claiming to have walked to a vantage point in the forest last week, allegedly to observe the sunset, Little Weed and Nine Lives were seen desecrating together in the moonlight
Hash Shit
No contest, according to HM Lothario, who, 13 years ago, on the occasion of LH3’s inaugural run on Pierre’s farm, had a run-in, a tete-a-tete with a tree. Both the tree and the HM were badly damaged in the collision necessitating tree and human surgery. The tree has made a full recovery but the jury is still out on the HM . The hash has a long memory (even the HM in this instance) and guess who planted the tree? Yes, Pierre, and HM Lothario, thick as a plank, lumbered straight into it, wouldn’t you know Timber City etc. So in 2007, HM Lothario extracts revenge for something that happened in 1994, So hashshit for Pierre
Receding hareline
1st Sept Bin Dealing, Per
30th Sept Sunday Wheelchair run
8th Sept Cabbage
6th Oct Cool dude
15th Sept Francophoney
13th Oct Blockhead, The Rabbi
22nd Sept Silver Bullet, Cruella D’evil
20th Oct Buju, Floss, Wild thing
29th Sept Mansell, BYO Braai
27th Oct Bullshit, Little John
On On!
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