Wednesday night i was invited by my gym buddy Shaz, to go on a Hash run. I had no idea what i was in for. She'd been a few times now and loved going, so i thought i would go with her. I got picked up and we went to a house in a suburb id never been to before.
We got to the house which was about 15 minutes from mine and went upstairs. I could hear a lot of talking and giggling. Once I reached the top of the stairs, I saw 18 women from around the ages of 35-85 years old all dressed up in daggy wedding outfits and dresses. One lady was getting remarried and she had a madonna like wedding dress on with a vail and condoms tied to it. I felt totally out of place. I shook hands with a few of them and said hello to everyone else, paid my $10.00 and then was introduced loudly to the whole group and they all smiled and nodded politely at me.
The lady that's house we were at, announced that we were off and we were going for the HASH walk.. an hour or so walk around the suburb that i didn't even get the name off. The host would lead the way and I just followed and spoke to who ever would talk back. The walk was full of false starts, where we would be going in one direction and the host yells "FALSE START" and we would turn around in the direction we just came from. I looked this up on the net and the false start is for those at the front to go back, shuffle the pack and meet with the ones at the end. Its a great idea. They should do false starts for all marathons :P - as if that would happen. That's how i got talking to other people. Basically it was a bunch of ladies walking and gas bagging. You could drop off at any time of the walk and go back to the house, where you would wait for the rest of the group to get back. Anyways, so we got back to the house, had some drinks, most of the ladies were drinking wine, beer and vodka :-O . It was really funny to see. We had a yummy yummy dinner and then the meeting started.
Its a charity and they walk and raise money for all these different causes. Every Wednesday it is held at someone else's house, they make dinner, they all go for a walk and then they sing some funny songs that they have made up or got from other hash groups and they go through the events they have coming up and tell funny stories of what happened during the week to them. Jesus that was a long sentence- sorry. It was really good. This group is just for ladies and there was only like 18 but usually there is 30-50 and because the rugby was on there wasn't many at all.
I was the youngest there and felt so out of place but i want to go back next week. They told dirty jokes and had a steel hospital urinal, like a hand held male one. It was nice,clean and shiny like someone polishes it every week, and every week it is given to the host for next week. So this urinal gets passed around and everyone puts a little bit of their drinks into it and the host has to skull it while they are all singing this funny song. They made me do it coz i was new and i spilt it all over me :-O so embarrassed but they all laughed and apparently Shaz did it the week before and spilt it all over herself so that was alright.
It was very relaxed, so welcoming and really enjoyable. It was so cool seeing these grandmothers and stuff doing vodka shots and swearing like sailors. They also have funny nicknames for each other, and you get named when you do something accidentally ridiculous or it could refer to your job or your name, and the older ladies decide what your name is.
Here's some of the names
Ichy tit ( she had an infected nipple on time)
head job (she was a hair dresser)
plucka
postie
princess
ice maiden (brings ice every week for the esky)
hooker (she worked at lj hooker),
hoops
help me ( her real name is Rhonda) Beach boys song :-D
Madonna
I haven't been named, i think i will have to be there a few months before i do. They record how many runs you do and they go overseas and do runs. Its an international thing. Its huge and has been going on for a looooooooooong time.
It was a really fun night and I'm going to blog about it every week and take some photos. Such a happy bunch of ladies. They even have a website which isn't kept up to date to often but once Ive been there for a while, i will offer to look after it and update it weekly. Shouldn't be too hard. Check it out http://darwinharriettes.jigsy.com/
Now that i have changed jobs, i have access to the blogger site so i should be posting much more- so be prepared to be blogged people.
Catch yas next week for your update on the Darwin Hash House Harriettes
laters xx
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