Appearances can be deceptive; but Pink Floyd is OK

Looks a gentle sort of run doesn't it? Pleasant run out to the hill then a steady climb up through the verdant rubber to the trail along the ridge, then a gentle climb up to the top (249m) before an equally undemanding trot down through more rubber and another gentle run home.

Think again! If our pussy runs have gained a reputation for being full on, no compromise, femcho hashing then today's run is going to do nothing to soften that image.

Not that the Hash ladies can claim all the credit, as last November's storm has wrought as much damage in this area as anywhere around Songkhla. That nice trail we ran in April as a gentle wind-down from our walk up Khao Jet Yod, has to all intents and purposes disappeared. And that gentle downhill? Forget it! It's a disaster area; strewn with fallen trees and apparently deserted by its owners in the face of the sheer impossibility of getting up the hill.

But all credit to our five hairiettes, After Ours, Crackwurst, Only a Yolk, Meals on Wheels and Temporary Relief for not giving up in the face of an over-optimistic GPS track, and finding a way through in 4 hours and 52 minutes to set a run which even though it was only a little over 6k as the lame crow flies took the front runners a cool 1 hour 40 minutes, and had the final three hounds refusing a lift back to the run site on 2 hours and insisting on running the final 500 meters home.

Thanks also to Bi Anal for the post-run fireworks display, but greater thanks to all those who then spent the next hour or more trying to find the last remnants of the SH3 dog pack who bolted in fear after the fire crackers were set off. Pink Floyd already spooked by some earlier fireworks, was the last hound to be located by which time most of the Hash had departed for better things. But Buk Toy, Gan Yao and Softcock stayed on to conduct mobile recces and Kii Leum discovered a suitable substitute on his motorbike but couldn't persuade the mutt to sit on his petrol tank. After Hours ferried Meals on Wheels and Only a Yolk out to the eventual point where Pink Floyd surfaced and Ram it in, Tuttee Fruity and Temporary Relief, who with M.o.W's, had earlier recaptured Harram, hung around just in case Pink Floyd plucked up the courage to come back to the run site.

Future would be pyromaniacs please note: These days we are almost as much a dog hash as a human hash and dogs do not like fireworks. Wanna let off some fireworks? Do it at home and put the fear of God into your own dogs!