Run 1590
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
7.30pm
Waste ground near Pok Oi Hospital / Sun Kwong Hotel
On on: Sawadee Thai Restaurant
Hare: Big Moany
Park: Waste ground
Train: West Rail to Yuen Long, walk half a mile along Castle Peak Road
Next run: July 17 / Bogbrush. The hareline
Run 1589
Snakes Alive!
By Golden Balls
Fartypants = Hung Shui Kiu. And so it proved. Arriving at the park behind the daipaidongs – the same one in whose toilet a few years back I was asked by a dusky chummy if I “like hash”, to which I of course rambled on about having just done “a hash in the hills”, much to his bewilderment – we encountered the sight of Walky Talky parading around in floury short-shorts. Very suspicious. “Virgin trail!” proclaimed the hare, to which we said, “A likely story,” “Piffle,” and other less repeatable expletives, for the hare had only just got off the plane from Heathrow.
We set off that night for the hills in the east, a strangely ambling small pack. Markings testified to the hare’s drowsiness: loads of them all together, then nothing for a few hundred metres. It was during one of these markless interludes we discovered why. Arrows had thoughtfully been drawn under lamp-posts, but on the far side of the post from the lamp, in the post’s shadow, rendering them practically invisible.
All too soon we hit the road winding up towards the old quarry, Eunuch and Mango Groove setting the pace. I was in a fast-walking trio with One Eyed Jack and G-Spot. “I know why I’m walking, but what about you two?” I asked. G-Spot moaned about his big toe, while One Eyed Jack remained darkly, ominously silent. I suspected the worst.
A clever check-back up a flight of steps had us heading out on a path along a sort of broad platform in the quarry face. This was indeed virgin trail. As we zig-zagged up the quarry face the centipedes were out in force, and it was while G-Spot and I were admiring one of these giant copper nightmares that One Eyed Jack ghosted silently away, never to be seen again.
At the top of the quarry, coiled by a culvert, was a rufous burrowing snake. Very lethargic, and G-Spot
Northern New Territories Hash 