Last Card Louie’s – Run With a Difference
To begin with, there was only one Poshman that noted the Ace was missing from the Royal flush with a B26 Liberator Ace making up the extra card!!
A good sized pack of some 45 had formed at the junction of Glenwood St and Burns Road with Jungle Jim arriving very early to take a Descartes position under an old oak tree . There were of course a few latecomers not as diligent as Jungle such as Foxface who was still get over is lashings of Christmas pud and Tic Toc who had just jetted in from Melbourne.
A Jungle Jim caricature
It was great to see Chastity Belt from Hong Kong with his health issues on the mend plus Son of A Gun and Kitty 2( back from the Gold Coast) also a welcome return There was some running competition from some young guns for Flying Scotsman and Moishe (who has been seconded by the Harriettes to set a few runs hoping for some benefits afterwards!!)
Nureyev was briefly back from his APLNG project at Gladstone having banked his second mil from Bechtel. Boxkite was there with his goaty beard and trimmings but looking more like one of his folk heroes from the revolution- Vladimir Lenin– hail! Last Card Louis or Looney as some have suggested gathered the pack around to tell them of his new markings, yet to be ratified by the International Court of Hashing. The new markings were a LCL creative innovation but “hinged” around a joker (mmmmm!) with a happy and sad face denoting a check and check back respectively
LCL ( Looney) new hieroglyphic markings for CHECK (The On Sec is checking out for existing use rights of smiles!)
This obviously is a big improvement on the less understood markings of arrows and circles and will no doubt will be adopted on future LCL Runs only!! The pack was off with a number of the pack including Your Choice and Calici Virus taking the correct trail under Burns Road with the majority short-cutting straight across. The trail followed parallel with Lovers Leap Creek where the walkers comprising of Yakkity Yak and Long Chance, back from his Austrian Yodelling lessons, were appreciating the serenity of the blue gum forest apart from the putrid odours permeating the bush air.
Box Kite was striding in his full revolutionary regalia including his camouflage green shirt and ankle high gaiters to ward off those nasty critters he might encounter along the trail and SBends was familiarizing Tony, (his Canberra Guest) with the finer points of Hashing including those LCL Joker markings in case he might think the Posh might have reverted to some weirdos who were captivated by the Gotham City character.
SBends and Tony
Out on the trail Scotsman was being competitively followed by Nureyev , Kitty 1 & 2, Your Choice and White Shit who was greatly enjoying the Australian bush once again after his UK job work assignment. The 2 elder statesmen of the Hash, Darwin and Hanoi Bill fresh from the Christmas break were also in the thick of the walkers group looking a little podgier after tucking into the Christmas trimmings the last few days although Darwin confided in the On Sec that he had recently read a Live Science Study on sex which reported that the desire for sex was still a consideration for men who are approaching the century mark!! – go for it Darwin and Hanoi.
The runners split off left earlier in the run and rejoined again about half way in only to split again to the left once on the other side of Lovers Leap Creek after a large loop back. It was noted by the ever observant Simmo and Virginus Illegitimus that another Last Card Looney innovation was to discard his unwanted Christmas cards in the bush to demonstrate to the posh the large group of LCL admirers whose best wishes would be crapped on by the local possums and wallabies or provided nesting material for the local birdlife of the region – a great recycling idea LCL.
Being the last run of 2014 and in anticipation of another committee festive offering the pack including Kitty Litter, Moishe, French Connection and WC were quickly heading for the bucket at 18 Tennyson Avenue to enjoy the liquid amber flowing at the LCL establishment to be greeted by God Knows and The Arbitrator, sporting a little bit of rotundness these days.
It was a really good turnout as nearly 40 stayed for the festivities of the evening on a nice balmy night under the stars. The NBH3 were in number including NSOM and Phantom as were a few Harriettes including Rancid, Lost Hand and Mongrel from the Larrikins
Once again the JM’s did a great job with plentiful Christmas food topped off by Pam who had prepared a delicious fruit salad served with vanilla ice cream. Unlike the loaves and fishes miracle performed by Jesus, Little Shit could not repeat the same miracle for the red wine as LCL came to the rescue with a few bottles from his personal cellar – thanks LCL!
There were Down Downs for the Hare, Last Card Louie, Chastity Belt ( hope to see you back soon mate), The Arbitrator, Jordan ( Kitty Litter 2) and Pam Rosser for her hospitality and fruit salad. SBends decided that he would temporarily take over, which is generally not his style (ha ha), and introduced his guests from the ACT, Tony and Jack (Jill) a former hasher from the Paraburdoo H3 and of course his other half, Jan and proceeded to give them a Down Down as well.
Thanks again to Last Card Louie and Pam for a well set run and hosting the Hash at his Turramurra home – On On to 2015 and Run No 2479 at Northbridge
Your Hash Journey – Brought to you by Your Choice 
Distance 7.83km
Elevation gain 181m
Calories burnt 356C
- Run No 2479 January 5th : New Year’s warm up at Northbridge Hotel – Cnr of Strathallen & Baringa Road ( small car park on west side of Baringa Road
- Run No 2480 January 12th: Little Shit and Your Choice, General San Martin Drive, Terry Hills – Bus to start of Run: leaves at 6.15 am sharp – DON”T BE LATE!!!
- Run No 2481 January 19th: XXXX “somewhere in NSW but probably North Turramurra” – says the hare