Volume 43, Issue 51 | April 7, 2025

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RECEDING HARELINE

Run No.	Date	Hare Apparent	On On
2333	21 April	Contessa Coupla Weeks	Easter Monday Prince of Wales Hotel, Battery Point
2334	28 April	The JMs	AGPU at the new, revamped Queen’s Head Hotel. See flyer for details
2335	5 May	Sir Eve	Shoreline Hotel
2336	12 May	Hare required

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UP AND CUMMING

26 May 2025 | Combined Hash Clubs Charity Run
8-10 May 2026 | Interhash 2026, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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RUN 2331 REPORT

PRELUBE

The new H5 Hashing year had started 1 April 2025, in much the same way that John Howard declared that the current millennium started 1 January 2001, not 1 January 2000. Factually correct, but no one was having a bar of that.

Yet, for this narrative to work – Happy New Hashing Year!

End PRELUBE

You’d think that being ‘first off the block’, Hare Thrill Seeker would rank first for ‘Run of the Year 2025-26’. Yeah, nah.

Started off well enough, heading further south along Macquarie Street, but we all know what lay south of South Hobart. Except it was now dark, and we couldn’t see Kunyani and it’s not inconsiderable foothills, so we put our faith in the Hare.

I recall doing that a few years ago from the end of Tolosa Street. Faith and $5 will get you a cup of coffee.

After dropping down onto the Rivulet Track we were taken up a fire trail. I don’t recall having been that way on any previous Hash trail and, as Clearfell and I dragged our sorry arses up, I reckon that I would remember if I had.

Bee’s Dick charged past, having been fluffed by runners’ loop foreplay, Lord Limp ran past, Pole Dancer jogged past, and the rest just sort of took in the view.

A 100m climb over one kilometre is only a 1:10 gradient. Factually correct, but no one was having a bar of that as we crested the summit of Liverpool Crescent. Still, it was a relatively short climb (half that of the aforementioned Tolosa Street trail) and we we could look forward to a gentle descent through the streets of West Hobart. Yeah, nah.

In darkness we descended the ramshackle track and steps that led back to the Rivulet Track – a true knee-cruncher for those already on their last legs. Thankfully, functioning torches were en vogue.

Back on the Hill Track we could hear Bad News calling to our left, but trail headed right. Because we’re pretty thick (by ‘we’ I mean Clearfell, of course) we put our faith in the Hare once again. A bit more of a climb before descending to the Rivulet Track and heading for ‘home’.

Back at the Hotel, the Hare was propped up at the bar to greet the returning Hashers and receive accolades for ‘Run of the Year’. He got none. There was a conciliatory ‘it was short, so it wasn’t as crap as it could have been’, which was probably as much as Thrill Seeker was hoping for.

I’m not sure if the likes of Eveready and Organ Grinder were as glowing in their assessments, as they didn’t get back from trail until the gravy had congealed on their roast of the day.

Big ‘thumbs up’ to the Cascade Hotel, who were far more welcoming than we’d experienced in the past. I’d be more than happy if we returned to that venue over the coming months of darkness.

Providing that Gov’nor Honkers is the Hare…

On! On! Grizzly

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SKOLS

• Thrill Seeker – The “maggot” Hare (obviously the Lip wasn’t as glowing in his assessment of trail)
• Dishlicker – hello, hello, hello; has joined the ‘thin blue line’.
• Lord Limp – millstone 1250 Runs.
• Bad News, Brazilian, Clearfell, Eveready, Grizzly, Honkers, Lone Arranger, Organ Grinder, Prawn Star, W3 – can’t remembers.

Skols from the floor

• Incoming – left his wife in charge of booking flights for their budget holiday, now flying first class to Malta.
• Eveready – FRB jacket.
• Prawn Star – threw his maximum security skols book into the fire thinking that his reign of terror had finished, now reduced to scribblings on sticky notes.
• The boys at the back of the pub – appreciative of the unexpected ‘entertainment’.

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HASH FLASH

Link to all photos for Run 2331

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H5 MISMANAGEMENT 2024-25

(but not for much longer…)

Grand Master	Clearfell
Joint Masters	Bad News In The Raw
On Sec	Cracker
Hash Cash	Rigor Mortis TopDek
Hash Lips	Bee’s Dick Prawn Star
Hash Hops Assistant Hops	Thrill Seeker Ratu Steady Eddie
Trailmaster	Lord Limp
Hash Flash	Pole Dancer
Hash Horn	Big Mac Quarter Pounder
Hashet Managers	Viagra Next Week

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