So it was that later that day when the Hashers arrived, Handphun Hare was sitting in a chair in the garden nursing a broken ankle. After a while, the Big Bad Master made all the Hashers surround her and force her to tell where the paper had been laid. This made Handphun Hare so frightened that she said she wasn't going to hare the run after all and nasty old Grumble Hare and Guano Hare could jolly well do it themselves.

Then the Big Bad Master made Grumble Hare and Guano Hare tell all the Hashers about the run. Then the Wicked Old Fox led all the runners off in the wrong direction. After a little while everyone realised that he was leading them astray so they turned round and ran back to join the walkers who had been shown the proper way by the Good Apple Hare who had been co-opted to replace Handphun Hare.

After a while most Hashers found their way to Holding Check 2 except for the Wicked Fox and Yogi Hare and Ramesh who had got lost in the woods. Then they followed the walkers a little way and all got lost in the pine forest at Check 3, but some eventually found paper and Towed even found the Wicked Fox (needless to say neither of them on paper). Holding Check 5 was set by the side of the road on the old Tuesday Run trail, which meant that Run Crafty, Gerard and Towed ran straight past it. They were eventually called back by the rest of the pack who were soon told to check it out by the Hares.

From here the trail went the obvious way down towards the bamboo bridge over the Nakhu and an enormous back check on Check 6, where the paper must have been at least 600 metres from the check. The runners were then forced up the hill towards Rotter's Roost and then back down again to Holding Check 7 by the river. At this point the run turned into a community service exercise with The Wicked Fox, Run Crafty, Grumble and a few others stealing the mattocks from a group of local ladies who were busy ploughing the nearby field and proceeding to dig up all the wrong bits. Shortly after this, on the way up to Check 8, a group of hashers, once again led astray by The Wicked Fox, were encountered carrying two massive lengths of bamboo for some poor bloke who had been trying to take them in the opposite direction. (significantly it took 6 hashers to carry the load that one villager had been carrying.) Check 8 was a bit of a waste of time as by then the pack was so close to Guano's Garden that most headed straight home.

The Master called the circle to order fairly quickly but not before ace crasher Run Crafty had fled the coop for the third week in a row. He is to be dealt with next week. In view of the Master's cracked ribs reported last week, Guano kindly provided an electronic megaphone. Sadly, the Master's operating skills were seriously lacking and the attempt at artificial amplification was soon abandoned.

The Hares were called in or, in Handphun's case, carried into the circle to receive their just desserts. With scores ranging from 500 to minus one point one being offered, a diplomatic solution of 9.9 was settled on. Sadly, this was the end of diplomacy as far as the Master was concerned as he graciously invited a host of German virgins to introduce themselves. From interns at the Embassy through DED people to UNICEF workers, and one natural candidate for the hash who works at the Beer Hospital, Sebastian, Iris, Daniella, Maurice, Johanna, Lilli were duly welcomed in the Master's own (fortunately) inimitable fashion.

Other down downs were:

Milestones: Mustard Fart's 100th was finally remembered by the GM, as was Soraya's 5th birthday and then, just when we thought it was all over and social drinking would be declared, the old fart shifted into overdrive to award late down-downs to:

Thanks to the Hares for a good run and to Guano for sponsoring the snacks and the beer.