Rogaine - Volunteering on Hash / Hash Leader

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Rogaine was great fun, collected e_dan and his gear from Spearwood then stayed marginally within the speed limits out to Wandering. My love for the North Bannister Roadhouse [and their bacon and egg sandwiches] knows no bounds.

Bought more lip balm from a petrol station because I had put my other one in a 'safe place' and found it later when I tried to store the new one in the same location [sigh].

Arrived bright and bouncy for hash house duty and discovered that the Hash Leader's father had died a few days earlier and our newly appointed Leader wasn't feeling very confident. Took over like a taking over thing, shamelessly bullied people for the next 28 hours and they let me and said thank you a lot. Weird. Am very pleased, was my first time leadng, feel team was fabulous.

Jun 2006 Rogaine - 'My' hash tent

The very helpful farmer whose land we were using brought a front end loader in and built us a BIG fire which he restocked for us shortly after 6:00am. He also brought his collie 'Fluffy' who sat around the the back of a ute eyeballing the hash house and eventually came out for a sniff around. He found the pit we were putting all the 'slops' in and spent quite some time trying to fill it in for us with his nose.

Jun 2006 Rogaine - Campfire

Amusing moments:

• Admin team asked for a hot water bottle for 'Pebbles' the laptop in the hope the monitor would start working if it warmed up.
• B.; who I know from Primary School; tried to introduce me to cricketk. It's a small Perth.

We had one injury which was a broken wrist early in the Rogaine. We also had two ladies not make it back by 12:30 [event closes at 12:00] but they were brought in shortly after by one of the control collecting teams. This is the first time I can remember either of these things happening.