12 hashers and 3 ankle biters started the trail from outside the heavily fortified fortress that is Chez Shorts Shift & Hairy Shoes and soon the only 2 runners had disappeared into the increasingly foggy distance
The walkers were very thankful to the careful crafting of the trail by Rocket Pants and Rocket Lips and some ‘top blobbing’ with ample use of flour and, in some cases, blobs only a few inches apart (take note SDU!). The walkers were also reassured that they were going in the right direction thanks to the chorus call of “On On” by young Just Valentine and Just Masha. Occasionally we spotted Its Complicated and Just Tim in the distance to provide extra re-assurance as the fog slowly began to set in
The trail ended where it started, except for Cheesy Lollipop who interrupted the ‘end trail beer’ by getting lost with Rocket Pants’ car keys in his pocket. Panic set in that the Hashers would die of thirst until eventually CL found his way back. However, at this point half of the group had already left towards RP & RL’s house and so the festivities continued a few kms away
Chez Rocket Pants & Rocket Lips, we were rewarded with the usual nibbles and drink but then received a great surprise in the form of pizzas which were gobbled up (a new word learnt by Honey Pot on the trail) in no time by some very hungry kids and adults
In the circle Glory Hole continued his learning of “how to GM” by introducing newbie Just Ksenia with a down down and as we then had 2 Russians in the circle, Sweat Pea and IP brought Honey Pot into the circle and our two comrades were serenaded with an ‘apparently famous Russian song’ – not Boney M’s Rasputin as we expected.
As is tradition, the hares Rocket Pants & Rocket Lips were rewarded for yet another fantastic trail and great after-party. RP was punished for getting Just Ksenia’s name wrong and calling her Maria all afternoon, but as an act of solidarity was joined by Glory Hole for grassing him up in the first place. Other punishments were given for those with hats in the circle, even though many of them took them off just as the circle started – nonetheless we remembered and made sure that those who broke the rules (which was nearly 60% of them) took the punishment with some wishing they had kept their hats on as the dregs of their unfinished down down dribbled over their head. Other punishments were for lack of hash gear for those regulars and so Wonky Willy and Hoppy Pussy took their punishments like men.
The matter of the hare trail was brought up with Wonky Willy again using his busy social life as an excuse to swap a shift and will now host the March St Paddy’s Day Hash in the centre of Toulouse with some bonus features apparently. Its Complicated and Honey Pot claimed the April spot with what’s called a ‘Mystery Hash’ in Grisolles and for May, no THHH event decided yet but IC took the opportunity to tell people about the ‘Hell(goland)’ hash on 1st June – an email was sent to the THHH email group the past weekend. However, this left February without a spot and unbeknownst to him, and with the look of fear in his eyes, Hoppy Pussy was nominated to hare his first trail in his young Hasher life. But fear not, Glory Hole will assist with the planning and setting of the trail – date tbc but will be after 11 Feb for sure
So as the fog got eerily thicker and temperatures dropped we closed the circle, bid farewell and drove back to our respective burrows in pretty terrifying fog……..maybe some of us are still out there and have yet to return home……
