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April 6, 1998
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From:      Duff Robin < rmd@msoft.it >
Date:      Mon Apr 6 12:25:11 1998
Subject:   


Location: Lake Orta
Date:     29 March 1998
Hares:    Bwana, Tonedeaf & RoughKnight
Scribe:   RoughKnight

I  arrived  at  Lake  Orta  on  Friday night, straight from the land of the
boring  people,  and  was met by Tonedeaf, straight from the Under world of who
knows where. I arrived with Bwana who had also come from a land full of boring
people (an office full of accountants).  After the second bottle of red  wine
in a local restaurant, we soon forgot about the boring people and set   about
the   serious   business   of   choosing  the  third  bottle.  Several bottles
later, we ended up in the Enoteca where Tonedeaf managed to consume/buy most of
the stock of wine (then wondered on Sunday morning why he   had   no   dosh
and   was   unable   to   pay   his   hotel   bill).  Saturday  morning,  awoke
to glorious weather (accompanied by sore head and dry  throat)  and  Bwana,
Tonedeaf and I set off to set the run.  Bwana had already  decided  the lay out
of the run and Tonedeaf and I spotted some of the  old "GM" dictatorship traits
setting in.  We were consoled by the fact that  Freddie  would be arriving in
the afternoon to quash any such traits.  At  4.30ish  the  pack started to
arrive (apart from our Beer Master, Paint Stripper who  had  been at Orta since
1.00 and carried the beer up and down the hill three times  while   we  were
stuffing our faces in a nearby restaurant).
Good to see the return of Death Roll and Louise "Sloane Ranger" (who appeared
later due to a throat infection) from darkest Sudan.  Some new hashers arrived,
ex Brunei H3, now living  in  Stresa ( these were not going to be quiet and
retiring hashers) and we had a visitor from Armenia     -    Hasmick. We
supped some beer and then headed off in search of the trail, with Paint
Stripper  and  Stevie Blunder calling the first ON ON.  We continued on the
scenic route around the  lake, through the woods and went uphill to find the
song stop, where we  were  entertained  to  a  tuneful  version  of something I
can't remember (most  probably  Father  Abraham  or one of the other two songs
we normally do).  Continued on to find the Ladies check, with Death Roll
finding the "ON" (it seems  he  has changed sex while in Sudan, the Sudanese
have funny habits.) White  Fang  followed  in hot pursuit in her trendy shiny
leggings, and the rest of us        trundled        up the        hill.  We
headed  up  the route to the Sacre Monte, finding some false trails and
arrived  outside  a  small  shrine  where  Fabulous lead us in song.  After
that  we  headed  down hill, into the town and arrived at a "B" -beer.  The
pack were  instructed  to  load  into  rowing boats - and being hashers they
did exactly what they were told.  Beer was distributed and we had our beer stop
on water (apart from Bwana and I who travelled in style in the power boat - The
rowing boats arrived at the island and the walkers and runners followed their
respective  trails,  only  to  meet  in the middle going in opposite
directions- some Ex Brunei hashers had not actually worked out that we were on
an island and even tried to short cut.  We loaded on to the boats again and I
found myself in the same boat as Freddie, our GM who seemed intent to swim
back  -  we  decided to restrain him for fear that Bwana would assume control
of  the  Hash  again. Bart managed to get us back to the shores of Orta
again     and     we     picked     up     the     land     trail.  We  went
through  the  maze  of  streets, split walkers and runners at one point, with
the  runners  continuing  along the lakefront.  At one point we had a song
stop,  with Stevie Blunder, Liana and Brian leading us from a rock in
the lake.
At  another point several hashers risked injury clearing a eight foot jump, all
following Death Roll and Stevie's example.  The more sane of us jumped the bar
to risk abuse  in  the  circle.   Soon  we  all arrived back at the carpark for
the circle.  Three  harriettes  from Stresa were missing, but we started the
circle anyway.  Visitors, Death Roll and Hasmick were awarded down downs,
followed by White Fang  for  the  trendy  trousers,  the  Stresa  guys (Martyn
with a Y) in particular and  Bill,  (manager of  La Brace restaurant, our
February 15 run location) for  constantly interrupting the circle. Then Dai
Berry arrived, plus kids, in  time  to  get  his  second milestone for zero
runs.  The missing Stresa three  arrived  finally  to  get  down  downs and
then the hares were given beers.  Cheesy Dick celebrated his birthday by doing
a 69 with Tonedeaf and then we decided (despite the winging of the Stresa lot)
to close the circle and             head             for the
restaurant.  At  the  restaurant,  chaos  and  paper plates reigned.  Stresa
performed a moving love  song,  Armenia  provided backing vocals on a different
version of "Oh Natasha",  and  Milan  performed "Scotland the Brave, Old
MacDonald etc.).  Brian  did  a  wonderful job at Hash Cash,  clutching
handfuls of money, No Grappa asked  him  where  his  pen  and paper  were, his
reply was "why do I need those?". Then  he  tried to give Tonedeaf some change
despite the fact that Tonedeaf had not   paid   yet   - No   Grappa  took
over  the  task  at  this  point.  The   evening continued   in   the
Enoteca   into   the   small  hours.  The next day was relaxing by the Lake (as
was Monday - when I had to return to collect  my passport  which  I  had
forgotten  - no more on this........) ON ON to Monday 6th.

Rough Knight
..............................................

Subject: Orta Revisited

Hash story from Orta;

Rough Knight had a flight to catch to Georgia (ex USSR) today Monday, so of
course she was particularly careful looking after her ticket, passport etc.
this weekend.

Not like Tone-deaf, who managed to leave his passport at the Olina Hotel
and had to drive back 30 km to get it on Sunday!

Another reminder for RK of how accidents can happen to careless (other)
people was Brian telling her, as she was leaving, that he was nearly given
her passport in error by the hotel when he checked out.

 But RK is an organised person. She doesn't have problems with documents.

Thus Bwana, at home, late on Sunday night, was somewhat surprised to
receive a message from the hotel to say that they were still holding one
passport, belonging to  a certain Miss Smith....................

If anyone is wondering why Bwana was not contactable at his office this
morning......he was in Orta.

No  major changes have been deemed necessary to future plans..........so
far!


On On

Bwana
.............................................................
Kissy-Face and silent Scream send their regards.
.............................................................
You're invited to Jean-Paul's 70th Birthday party (he found his birth
certificate and then realised it makes him only 69 but what the hell?), to
be held at:

Ristorante Al Vascello
Pza Greco (end of Melchiore Gioia)
Tel. 02/66714934 (Sig. Pierangelo)

on Tuesday 7th April at 21:00

There will be a meal at a cost of 30,000 lire, including antipasto,
pasta, secondo, wine, many cheeses, pizza, cake and live music.

RSVP to Jean Paul tel/fax 02/4230080
or email sbrickle@poboxes.com
.................................................................
 Does anybody know of a motorbike (scooter) for sale?  I'm an American 
     living in Milan and I don't believe that I'll pass my driver's license 
     exam within the next two weeks.  Therefore, I can no longer drive the 
     car and I'm looking for another alternative.
     
     If you know of one on the market please e-mail me at:
     
     karen_vitko@hp.com
     
     Thanks in advance.
     
     Kindest regards,
     
     Karen Vitko
 karen_vitko@hp.com
...............................................................
Tonedeaf is back in the land of blue skies and fresh-air breathers as of
Thursday. Hoping the weather is nice.

 


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