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ALL IN HONOUR OF OUR INDEPENDENCE OF THE USA
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The drive to today's trail went past publicity for a Psychic Fair, which seems like a contradiction in terms. The potential customers surely know already that there will be such an event? Even more, the organisers know who will come and how many ?
On the hash, on the contrary a psychic gift might well come in handy, though not quite as great as Atalanta's; she found the On In within 30 seconds of our reaching the first check....Cries of "Hash Shit" arose, but were soon muted; as the hare had asserted - in, heaven help us, a pre-run circle! - the trail was a doddle. We ran to Fairoaks airport, we ran round Fairoaks airport, we came back from Fairoaks airport. That was it.
So why were we not together at the end? People came drifting in, in dribs and drabs, throughout the (interminable) length of the Circle. Culprits included a well-stacked Knitting Circle, much later, and all alone, Made Marion, and eventually Tako Belle with a venerable visitor. How could they get lost on so simple a trail?
Hmmm. For once the Knitting Group did not include Bonn Bugle; she, showing real psychic powers, managed to rejoin us running the wrong way (on trail!) at the very check circle where her old man the hare was awaiting the arrival of the pack, enquiring politely of the hashers whether we had found our way OK. (?? This bizarre behaviour is not to be encouraged in our hares...)
Now, the pack did include the very welcome re-appearance of Napoleon and Twiggy. (Understandably enough our current GM fought shy of actually running a trail in the company of his illustrious forefathers Tequil'over, Uncle Gerry, and Naopoleon; Shagger's share of the fun was to make a speech on the basis of not having done the trail at all and therefore regaling us with an incomprehensible and long- drawn out anecdote about his walking holiday with GG)
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Napoleon commented (in the context of Ardon Provo being given a down down for his use of his hands) that nothing had changed. As if to prove this, Napoleon himself ran a check at the road north of the airport to within 10 yards of the flour, and then ran all the way back to the check, leaving it to Atalanta to persevere and find it. (Yes, I know, I know, FRB is often accused of the same crime...)
In fact the RA was rewarding Ardon, for using his hands to chivalrous purposes, to remove a log impeding her progress. Well, he would have done if he could; Chipmunk's help proved necessary. (Last week; but the RA had as much to say about last week as about this one)
Indeed she went on at even greater length than the GM; it is true she is better looking. She also had a huge hammer, inflated, and very effective in quelling mutinous remarks. Of which there were many; SH3 is recovering its verve. Heckling in the Circle is an essential element of good behaviour....
However, as one result I have quite forgotten who was punished for what; the culprits included Fran and Lorraine, so there was no sexual bias.
We were not alone in the car park; other cars kept trying to drive out while Arfur was perorating, perhaps less patient than we were. (They did not appear to be pub customers, but walkers whom we had passed on the way in, and deeply intrigued by our goings-on).
The hash was notionally in honour of July 4th, though when Dr Death became a US citizen was not explained nor indeed what his contribution to the trail had been. More need for psychic powers...
ON ON FRB
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