Runs 852 and 853 - 5-6 Mar 2005

Pan Iberian Hash

Cordoba, 5th and 6th March 2005, but most people tipped up on the Friday. On our journey from Mijas it was raining most of the way but miraculously shortly before Cordoba the weather turned dry.

Registrations were taken in the bar of the main hotel by Stiff Fanny (Mijas GM) who was ably assisted by her daughter Stiffita. In fact I think Stiffita may be voted onto the committee at our next AGM, let’s get some intelligence in there!!!

All was going well with most of the some 119 hashers from Madrid, Almancil, Lisbon, Malaga, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Mijas and exiles registering and picking up their special shirts. All was going well apart from there was just one person serving at the bar: It was only later we discovered the Spanish logic of the slow service when the bar ran out of beer!!!

Saturday morning saw a clear blue sky and around 15ºC. Depending on who managed to get their beer before the bar ran out, or found / failed to find, another supply, we appeared either in time to check out the Mosquito or to just make the convoy to the run site.

To be fair the run was probably the shortest ever Hash, not to mention an away run, but, as it goes, maybe now we have a new TRADITION !!! Another ‘NEW TRADITION ’ was no ice, NO ICE !!!! Well, TRADITION !!!!! I don’t remember too much about the circle except for Wobbly Bob creating a variation on ALMANCIL ….. to I’M A SEAL ……..

Back to scrub up and onto the ON-ON. Hey don’t some of us Scrub Up GOOD !!

Excellent meal, loads to drink, incredible entertainment from all Hashes, the off to bed or whatever.

Sunday also bloomed fair with wall-to-wall blue sky. This time, having assembled on the far side of the Roman bridge, it was live hare run thro the street, alleys and squares of this beautiful old city. After many checks, falses and confusing ‘assistance’ from los vecinos, the BS was stumbled upon and then it was off back to the bridge for the circle. Which was much to amusement of the tourists, `los guiris están estúpidos’.

The On-On was again excellent and being subsidised, cost us a huge 2 euro a head, who said HEAD …..

At this point I was in the ‘ÒK lets call it a day’ group, although many stayed on and I guess had a very sober evening, NOT !!!

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this fun weekend and for making it such a memorable meeting.

On-On El Cid

A FEW LINES OF FEMININE WISDOM:

I. If you think the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, you're aiming too high.

2. Women don't make fools of men --- most of them are the do-it-yourself types.

3. The best reason to divorce a man is a health reason: you got sick of him.

4. Never trust a man who says he's the boss at home. He probably lies about other things too.

5. A woman's work that is never done, is the stuff she asked her husband to do.

6. If you want a nice man go for a bald one, they try harder.'

7. Go for younger men, you might as well they never mature anyway.

8. There are only two four letter words that are offensive to men ---"don't" and "stop" (but not used together).

9. Men are all the same they just have different faces so you can tell them apart.

10. Definition of a man with manners --- he gets out of the bath to pee.

11. Whenever you meet a man who would make a good husband, you will usually find that he is.

12. Scientists have just discovered something that can do the work of five men --- a woman.