The 196th Hash was on Sunday November 18th.

Jobsworth was the Hare

Folly, folly and six times folly.
On the coldest hash of the year Bushsquatter chooses to wear shorts and a large group of hashers opt to dare the promised rain.

The first monument to exploited slave labour is aptly named Sugar Loaf, but that was another age another ethic. Today's ethic is run, drink and screw the past.

The monuments fly by and the pack stays together until the Beer Stop where there is a large tower and shelter from the frigid wind.

At some distant temple Jobsworth finds a giant set of bails and in an ungainly manner climbs them. The setting is surreal as howling hashers run on laughing.

There is a long stretch of road where Keeps It Up & Bushsquatter pull well in lead. As is the lot of front runners they miss a well marked turning and have a long backtrack to rejoin the pack. Unbeknown to them they were almost at the next monument, and the slower hashers chuckle at the justice of it.

As the runners get to the last check Jobsworth's excellent trail has a small error whereby the returning trail meets a backcheck of the outgoing trail. Again the same frontrunners return to the pack, but the pack knows the trail better and hence blow through the checkback.

The frontrunners get to drink a beer for their efforts at the Down-Downs as does Playaway for being early for a change. The cold wind hurries proceedings and there is an early decamp for the bar.