RUN #2044, 19 JULY 2021– HARE: NUTCRACKER/MOUNTIE
COVID RUN #35 & ZOOM HASH CIRCLE#38
Location – North Star Hotel
Due to Victoria’s covid lockdown #5, we have reverted to our covid safe settings with a weekend trail and Monday night zoom hash circle (thanks to Spencer Hocking). About 20 Ballarat Hashers (in dribs and drabs) followed a trail that was set from the North Star, or did their own trail, over the weekend (if trail was outside their current 5km exercise limit). I’m not sure what happened to the original Hare (Road Runner), but thanks go to Nutcracker who stepped up and set a trail in silver paint from the North Star. Unfortunately, the trail did not withstand the wet weather on Saturday and Mountie & Pus Bucket then marked a new trail Sunday morning. A real team effort!
21 Hashers gathered for the zoom hash circle Monday night, where there was general discussion relating to how much we all hate covid! Mountie then shagged the run without anyone to hold her Moot and gave the following scores, Venue 20, Terrain 20 (Black Hill provided plenty of hills and shiggy on trail), Marking -10 + 20 = 10 (first trail was washed away but Mountie liked her own second trail), Drink Stop -10 (there was no drink stop), Groovy Factor 20 (the silver paint used for the first trail helped with the Groovy Factor), giving a total of 60 out of 100. 
Shitty Trail
Shitty Trail Spencer Hocking then stepping in as acting Sergeant and it was no surprise that he went on to talk about numbers. This being run number 2044 was significant because if you remove the zero, then 244 is the number of runs for D&C. Other Sniffy runs went to BP 1240, Bent 1471, Campaspe 85, Mountie 1311, Pauline 311, Plucka 313 (D&C was her stand in) and Fascinator 187. We also celebrated NBCL’s birthday with Hashy Birthday!
Hashy Birthday! Charges from the run went to Mountie who was remiss with the scoring and did not mention the poisoning of a local dog with the flour that she used to mark the trail. Nutcracker and NBCL were charged for leaving their front door wide open and Pauline was charged for complaining that Lois Lane and Mrs D walk too fast.
Fay (NBCL’s Mum) joined the zoom and talked about NBCL’s birth being when man landed on the moon. This led to chatter about the filming of “The Dish” not actually being in Parkes. Filming was done in nearby Forbes because Forbes is more attractive. Nutcracker agrees!
Rowdy then shared that his daughter has finally been able to get a seat on a repatriation flight from the UK allowing her to return to Australia. Teflon was also grateful to Nutcracker for setting the run from the North Star which was exactly 5km from their home. Nutcracker then talked about her Dry July and asked for support for her McGrath Nurse who is doing it for her. There was mention of SS’s 80th Birthday in 2 weeks and SS shared that he had been out fishing and successfully caught 2 trout. SS also gave an update on Fang’s health. Fang is battling cancer and is having breathing issues due to fluid in his lungs. Spencer Hocking shared that he had lost money on the camel and pig races in outback Queensland but was otherwise having a good holiday. It was lovely to see Exit on zoom and she is looking forward to coming to a run once we are allowed to gather together. Fascinator told us that he has returned from his holiday in Mildura and is still waiting for his covid test result, who would have predicted that covid would have an outbreak there?
There was then discussion about upcoming events (that may or may not happen??) with the Bike wine tour – 8th-10th October (Beechworth), Ball’s up – Oct 23rd (Mulgrave Country Club) and Nash Hash – 4th-7th November (Adelaide). Please contact Teflon within the next 2 weeks if interested in the bike tour and please email Exit if interested in the Ball.
Next Week’s Run – Monday 26 July 2021, Hare: Precious – Location: TBA & Zoom Hash Circle
After we timed out from our first 40 min on zoom there was further discussion about our current covid safe strategies given the delta outbreak and lockdown restrictions. It was decided that trails will not have a drink stop until further notice.
Furthermore, as already posted on FaceBook, the Grand Mysteries have convened and, given the strange circumstances we find ourselves in, if the set run is outside of your permitted travel area please do your own run, post it to Facebook and attend the circle. This will be counted as a bona fide hash run!
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