We haven’t seen much of E&B for the last year. She’s been in home detention wearing an ankle bracelet monitor for a few months. You see, Cooch was the GM last year, and well, this LSH town can only have one sheriff, so E&B had to be thrown into the Buckingham county jail. But Coochie relented and let her out to set a run in Richmond’s red light district.
E&B’s stylish ankle bracelet monitor in Lakeside Hash colours.
Pre-run, one alighted from one’s car to be met by Swamp Rat, who proceeded to share with one the location and characteristics of the Duke St brothels. Who’d have thought? A respectable grandmother like Swampie!
Half of E&B’s run was washed out thanks to an afternoon downpour, so she was out during the run/walk on her bike resetting trail just ahead of the pack. There was a bit of zig-zagging around the Yarra until we hit the streets, and the old poo-pick-up and processing infrastructure of Abbotsford. E&B must have been channelling her inner dunny man, because she took us down every Abbotsford laneway ever traversed by the nightsoil men, nightsoil being a delicate 19th century euphemism for poo. Lots of the old houses still have outdoor dunnies directly linked to the lanes for easy night time pick-up of pan contents.
Originally the poo was stored in cesspits, just full, fragrant holes in the ground adjacent to the dunnies – E&B took us down a couple of really skinny paths between the houses. The level of these paths was a few feet below the level of the street and the adjoining houses so wouldn’t be surprised if they were old cesspits. Someone had the idea of turning the cesspit contents into fertiliser but it wasn’t economical.
After cesspits came the nightsoil men who collected the contents of the full pans at night and carted it far away, preferably to another suburb. Collingwood and Abbotsford generated lots of poo which couldn’t be disposed of easily. The nightsoil men illegally emptied their full carts into the Yarra at Johnson St Bridge thereby turning the Yarra into a flowing manure depot. Then it rained lots, and
then the Yarra flooded. Yum! Then they tried a Clifton Hill manure depot where they dried the stuff and sent it off to Heidelberg, but that didn’t work so the night cart contents were sent to Preston to be spread on farms. Eventually we had the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works which installed a modern sewerage system and later employed Coochie.
Visitors – Cindy and Lee from Malaysia (friends of Lotsa Fun), Peter (friend of Klingon), Gavin from Ireland. Peter wouldn’t stop singing.
Returnees – Peanuts, E&B, SOS, Swingers, Transylvestite, Klingon.
Run Report– Prickly Bush – good run, tricky marks, ran over on-backs, good length, alleys, in and outs, good drink stop. 1750/1764
Walk report – Lotsa Fun – walked with Pointy, but they were stalked by E&B on her bike, Buckingham Palace drink stop. No water at drink stop. 1700/1700
Lost Jewels was sergeant.
Special Runs Pointy – 959 (Add On was Pointy stand-in), Kokup, 262, Game on 44.
Charges
- Swamp Rat for getting lost when she went to the Duchess brothel.
- Lotsa Fun – back chatting hare about lack of water at Buckingham Palace. She wouldn’t drink water from laundry tap, plus it had been raining all day, there was lots of water on the washed-out trail.
- Kokup for locking up Punch.
- Swampie for knowing too much about brothels.
- Mothball for whinging.
- Klingon for having a friend.
- SOS Awarded NickelBy a Purple Heart from Seoul hash for falling down on a hash run.
- Peanuts for being Theresa May lookalike.
- Fish Face charged GG for buying fish and chips on run.
- Klingon for creating bad memories for SOS of the time he (SOS) was bitten by a Rottweiler.
- Cheesecake for scavenging really big chalk on the run.
(Sorry if I’ve missed some charges but the acoustics were bad.)
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Virgins a plenty on a cold winters night in Richmond. The rain played havoc with the trail but we all had a great time. Dinner was a choice of pizza, pizza or pizza…I had pizza.
Thanks E&B. Au revoir!!