Damage!

Tomorrow's runsite showing details of the suggested parking technique

Beaver's keeping the precise location of tomorrow's runsite a closely guarded secret but insider information from Mr. X suggests that he is wavering between the competing attractions of education and religion. So the smart money is on slowing down and looking right as you get to Nam Noi School but not being too surprised if the sign doesn't actually materialize until the end of the school wall and you are directed into the wat.

Approximate details are:

SH3 run # 1593, Saturday, December 17th 2011, 4:00 p.m.

Hares: Beavershot and Yard Mr. X

Misdirections: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for about 10k and look for the sign on the right around Nam Noi School.

Sunday's HH3 run is a Songkhla-friendly affair at Wat Keow Geow. Not sure who the hares are - if you don't ask, you don't need to know! It should be a 4:00 p.m. kick off, but that depends on how fast you have to travel to get there! 

Red faces at panto spelling mistake

Press Association, Friday December 16 2011

Theatre staff were left red faced after the letter T was missed out from Widow Twankey's name in their Christmas pantomime programme.

The mistake at the Whitley Bay Playhouse in North Tyneside was blamed on human error and has been corrected.

The misprinted programme was withdrawn and an apology made to theatre goers.

All-weather hashing

October in Songkhla . . .




















. . . December in England.

And we thought we were fanatics.

Beaver bites off more than he can chew?

After two utterly disastrous recces, Saturday's run is beginning to look like a replay of last week's, plus another couple hundred meters of ascent and, no doubt, some good hard pouring rain. All the elements are there: a hill that has changed beyond recognition since last year's big storm, some old GPS tracks that are worse than useless, and no time for proper scouting. You've got to be out of your mind to come on this one.

It'll start at Nam Noi, either the wat or the school, depending on where the best minds of SH3 decide is the optimal location. It'll be done with the assistance of a hash personage I can now only refer to as Mr. X. If things go terribly wrong, blame him. Or the GPS. Or Egghead. Yeah, Egghead, it's all his fault!

Why didn't they do that?

Last Saturdays truncated run in red.

What's the white track? Well that's the technical advisory route which the hares were technically advised to follow. Can't have been too difficult 'cos Sex Printer and the technical advisor found their way up the hill without the technical advisory equipment and Yardo used the track in his last lay before his meeting with the bollard. Ah well.... we will no doubt end up doing the white track at some time in the future; these things have a way of coming back to haunt us.

Sadly no track of last Sunday's excellent, if challenging HH3 outing as Sex Star is GPS-phobic.

Details of this weekend's entertainment to follow but rumor has it that it's a changing places weekend with SH3 almost in Hatyai at Nam Noi, and HH3 at Wat Keow Geow in Songkhla. Beaver: Over to you.

How did they do that?

Easy! Give Kii Leum the GPS; pretend that he is in control; lay the paper where it had already been worked out during the recce. Moral, one good recce beats the sh*t out of the GPS.

So On! On! to SH3. When Kii Leum will have the GPS and will believe that he is in control, but the paper will just get laid according to the recce.

What do you mean there was no recce.....?

Ah well that's hashing!

A new hash HQ?

Dr. Egghead expounds on the feasibility of using the Large Hadron Collider to confirm the existence of black p-branes, as posited under string theory.

Ever since the decline and then demise of the Parlang Bar some years ago, Songkhla Hash has been without a real home of its own. The Hot Bread Shop kindly lets us park our signs and other paraphernalia on their premises, but closes too early to be of any use as an after-hours meeting place. Nominally taking up this role recently has been Daeng's Bar, partly because they're willing to turn down the music when we arrive, partly because it's just respectable enough that Egghead will actually go their without complaint.

Now however we may finally have something closer to a real Songkhla HQ. The newly opened Bai Meang, on Sadao Rd. across the street from the governor's mansion, seems to offer everything we need all in one place: pleasant outdoor seating, good food (both Vietnamese and Rocky's Indian), and cold beer.
Professor Stick, thinking he has been called a "pea brain", fashions a carefully considered response.

And so several key members of the SH3 Brain Trust met last night to see if the new venue would pass muster. Our unanimous opinion was positive, with particular praise for the cheapness of the beer. Indeed, the only concern was that Bai Meang already seems to be attracting large numbers of that pale, subterranean species known as "English Teachers". But of course we can co-exist with them -- Egghead himself is living proof that the two poles of rude manly vigor and pencil-neck intellectual geekiness can co-exist within a single entity -- and we might even be able to exert a positive influence.

New breakthrough in direction-giving

Stung into action by yet another professionally produced and true-to-scale map from HH3, SH3 brings you a new era in clear easy to follow directions, the peelable map. Just click one and a half times on the image and it will magically become stuck onto your screen thingy from where you can conveniently detach it and lose it in time for the run on Saturday.

But just in case you are not yet fully conversant with the technology, here anyway are the run details:

SH3 run #1582, Saturday December 10 2011, 4:00 p.m.

Hares: Kii Leum and R2D2

Misdirections: From the Ko Yo Intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4.7k and turn left for 8k then turn left just after Wat Keow Kloy and follow the road for about 400 meters then look for a sign or some paper to guide you to the run site.

Now for that embarrassing map from HH3

Details for the graphically incompetant are: follow the directions for Saturday, but turn right at Wat Keow Kloy into Poonakan, then go 5.5k and turn left, then go about 1.5k and turn left and look for a living monk. Start time should be 4:00 p.m. but don't count on it!

Finally, don't forget tomorrow night's full moon run (Friday December 9th, 7:00 p.m., details below) Kii Leum is now confirmed as a hare too for that one and will be in control of the GPS so expect a very unusual run!

Probably the last full moon run of 2011

Unless Mummy relents and allows HFMH3 a piece of the New Year's Eve action, the last full moon run of 2011 will take place this coming Friday at 7:00 p.m. The hares are Egghead and probably Kii Leum as long as a) his foot's all better, b) he's got time, as he's the hare on Saturday and c) he hasn't forgotten.

The run site will be: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4k and turn left then go 5.2k and turn left then go 500m to the big sala on the left.

Usual stuff applies: Bring a hand light if you want to stretch your legs (and there will be a short run as well as a long run this time around). Beer will be on sale at 100 Baht for 3 cans, but if you want to bring your own along to share with yer mates there'll be a communal ice box provided, and contributions of food are always welcome, which can be raw if you want as the BBQ will be on hand to grill it to a crisp.

Saturday's SH3 run and HH3's offering on Sunday are still in the melting pot so watch this space for details.

Last week - this week -next year

Last week's ad-hoc collection of hares managed (if I say so in all modesty) to produce a pretty good SH3 run last Saturday, although some alleged confusion with trails lead to one or two of our directionally challenged runners not being able to work out the location of the run site at the end.

Sunday's HH3 run exists only in memory; although Off T did carry his GPS round, he sensibly short cut so avoided most of the pain. All runs are good, but some are less good than others. This was one of those. Apart from a 10 minute section at the end on the way back to the runsite, when we did what we are supposed to do and actually ran in the jungle, the main features of the run consisted of being directed down spurious false trails and check backs by the hare followed by a tortuous steep ascent through unpleasant shiggy culminating at the road which we then duly ran back down past the pack of semi-evolved wolves guarding the stainless steel chedi atop Khao Ko Hong (which Kii Leum asserts is an alien spacecraft cunningly disguised but conveniently located to rescue adherents of 'the book' when the rapture occurs and whisk them off to somewhere where they can still drink beer, and sit around and say 'I told you so!') Nice try, chaps but don't do it again!

This week, in contrast, we will be treated to two runs by the same hares, which is a reflection of the general shortage of willing hares at the moment. Details are:

SH3 run # 1591, Saturday, December 5th 2011: 4:00 p.m.

Hares: Sex Sprinter and Palm Job

Misdirections: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 6.5k and turn right next to the CP Foods factory, then go 1k to the run site on the right.

HH3 on Sunday will also be set by Sex Printer and Scud and the run site will be 11.5k down the old Hatyai road on the left. The starting time should be 4:00 p.m.

Finally, HH3 are already advertising a New Years' Eve party at the Sai Kao Resort on 31st December. As NYE is a Saturday SH3 are desperately trying to get the event billed as a joint run so that we don't have the embarrassment of conflicting with our big daughter. The outcome of the delicate negotiations will no doubt be announced this Saturday, but the gist seems to be that the SH3 run that day will be from Sai Kao Resort and will probably be a torchlight run which will meld seamlessly with a NYE party featuring food, beer and entertainment including the latest version of the dancing pussies. There will be some accommodation available at the resort or a camp over for the hard up or slow-to-book. Sunday morning will feature recriminations, hangovers, unhealthy breakfasts and if it can be organised a run to dispel all of them and to restore faith in the wisdom of embarking on 2012 at all.