Chardonnay’s Sports Shorts Trail – R*n 1430
15 August 2024 from Shoreline Hotel, Howrah
Hare: Fringe Benefits and TopDek
Run Reporter: Prickit

Last Thursday saw the Chardonnay Hashers gathering on the Eastern Shore where according to locals it never rains and is always an overcoat warmer.  Well it was a mild evening and it didn’t rain.  Apparently that wet stuff that came later was someone leaving the sprinkler on, according to Herr Flick.

Any way for those that are interested below is some information about Howrah.  Really I’m just trying to look like I’ve written a long run report but in reality it’s just filling up some space.  People don’t read it anyway!

Howrah is a residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Clarence in the south-east region of Tasmania. The locality is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south-east of the town of Rosny Park. The 2021 Census recorded a population of 9,545 for the suburb of Howrah. It is a suburb of the City of Clarence. It is east of Bellerive and north of Tranmere.

Howrah Hobart, Tasmania
Coordinates	42°53′19″S147°24′20″E
Population	9,545 (2021 census)
Postcode(s)	7018
Location	5 km (3 mi) SE of Rosny Park12 km (7 mi) E of Hobart
LGA(s)	Clarence
Region	Hobart
State electorate(s)	Franklin
Federal division(s)	Franklin

Suburbs around Howrah:

Bellerive	Mornington	Mount Rumney
Derwent River	Howrah	Rokeby
Derwent River	Tranmere	Rokeby

Howrah is a beachside suburb, with views across the Derwent River to Hobart City from Howrah Beach. Clarence Street runs through the centre of the suburb separating the hillside section from the beachside.

Howrah was named after Howrah House, a property established in the 1830s on Clarence Plains by a retired Indian Army officer who took the name from a place of the same name near Calcutta.

Dora Isabel Baudinet died in 1945 leaving 10 acres and her assets to found the Tasmanian Sunshine Centre in Howrah in 1951. The home offered holidays to less privileged children until 1980.

Now that was interesting, wasn’t it. Now let’s get to the run.  Virgin Chardonnay run-setter Fringe Benefits was assisted by TopDek .  The run started along the Howrah bike path and was looking like it was going to be a bit uninteresting, but once we started to climb up the hills it got a bit more interesting, with a few twists and turns.  Only four runners completed the runners trail: Maximus, Poley, Hooray and Prickit.  It seems not all the walkers did all the walkers’ trail with a few opting for the easy option to hash back along the main road. Back at the venue a variety of meals were served.  The Lip session followed, moving outside to the veranda.  The Lips did well under the circumstances. 

Another enjoyable Chardonnay evening.  Well done Toppy and Fringe Benefits.

On on
Prickit 

DOWN DOWNS

Both Slippery Nipple & Smallgoods presided as best they could in a noisy outdoor area.

• Top Deck & Fringe Benefits: The Hares
• Johnny F*ckacacus, Rotten, Platypussy, Nancy Boy, Morticia & Fringe Benefits for being C*ntry members.
• Top Deck– for admitting that she has probably crashed a car as many times as Snack Bar!  Is that something anyone should admit to?
• Fringe Benefits. Couldn’t decide what to eat. Thought the scallops might be too small… but reported she likes a bit of a sausage… even at $24!
• Hooray: Forgot his torch again but stole Slippery’s !
• Maximus: The brunt of a racist NZ joke. Maxi mentioned that the grass can grow very high in NZ.. especially in sheep country. 
  Smallgoods allegedly asked Maxi “How do you find your sheep?”
  Maxi allegedly answered “Gorgeous!”
• Dyke & Fringe Benefits both had to be hounded by the hash cash to pay their dues!  Dyke arrived late as usual… Fringe Benefits was hoping she would be overlooked!
• Dyke. For replacing roast beef with non-meat meat in order to save some cash. He reconned it was actually pretty tasty!
• Uber & Comunion.. More c’ntry members
• Morticia. For alcohol abuse.. tipping out her first skol!
• Xena. For shocking Smallgoods by saying that she was going for a ‘slash’ rather than the expected ‘wee wee’. Apparently men are supposed to have the monopoly on ‘The Slash’!

Skols from the floor

• There were no skols from the Floor!
  Noisy venue, Hashers with poor concentration and no decent material even the singing was a 4/10.  (We definitely missed Griz!)  At that, Smallgoods threw up his hands and called an end to the Lip Session.

NEXT RUN

Run 1431: 22 August 2024
HARE APPARENT: Grassroots
STARTING FROM: Hobart Workers Club, Level 2/74 Elizabeth St, Hobart
RUN REPORTER: Gingernuts
$5 run fee – buy your own food and drinks at the venue.

RECEDING HARELINE

We have a few gaps in our calendar.  Please volunteer to set a trail if you have not already done so this year!

UP CUMMING EVENTS

• 6 December 2024 | Hobart Posh Hash 1920s cocktail evening @ Big O’s Juke Joint
• 28-30 March 2025 | Aussie Nash Hash 2025, Fremantle
• 8-10 May 2026 | Interhash 2026, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

HASH FLASH

All the photos from Run 1430

MISMANAGEMENT 2024

Contacts for committee members.. tho’ its just as easy to use messenger.. or just ask a stupid question on the facebook page… There will always be someone willing to give you an answer.