“ I love a sunburnt country,

a land of sweeping plains”

The first 2 lines of that wonderful poem by Dorothy McKellar, depicting the

Australian countryside, were on my mind as I set off on PJH3 Run 141. I was

thinking this way mainly because it was an unusually hot February afternoon

and the A site was set with sweeping views of wide open expanses, which

reminded me a little of home, and my thoughts had turned to those

unfortunate souls who had perished only one week ago in Australia's worst

ever bush fires.

After instructions from Sweet Pussy and Bushwoman, our Hares for today, the

pack took off down a dusty track with the usual FRB's leading the way. The

trail was a little hard to follow at times, but the constant calling of ON ON made

it a lot easier. Now there's a change for the better, JELLOBUT actually calling.

The number of checks, loops and FT's made for a very good Hash run, keeping

the pack together, whilst allowing the runners to get a good hit out.

I managed to overtake some of the walkers, even after I had short cutted with

ARSEAHOLIC and SHEIK BIN SHAGGIN . When you are able to do that, you

know it's a well laid run.

Everyone was back in about 60minutes and the comments I heard about the

run, were all positive. The only negative from my point of view, is that some of

our members still insist on turning the hash into a race.

After a chat and a few cold beers, we were then treated to a nice meal of fried

chicken, veges and rice.

To the Hares for the day, a very big THANK YOU and well done.

Dizzy