Come to the TAP ROOM of the Golden Gate Pub http://goldengatepubkiev.com/contacts

on Wednesday the 15th of February

to greet the American/European Hashers visiting Kiev and meet our Newcomers,

make plans for the Spring 2012 Hahsing Season

and tell the Valentine’s Day stories to our Half-Minded Congregation!

RESERVATION: At 18-15 on the name HASH at the TAP ROOM.

See you there!

ON BEER!

Beer King KH3 GM

Also see Kiev Hash House Harriers Group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/kievh3/ 

ON – ON!!!!!

Top Ten Drunkest Countries

Looks like the Kyiv Hash is doing their part.  Watch the video.

For more information on the festive occasion, you may want to visit the wiki site.

Our friends at Friends House in Piski need help to fix up the home.

They have had their problems recently with local authorities, and as a result have a two week period to bring certain things in the home to a higher standard or suffer repeated attempts to try and get the property back into local authority control so it can be allocated for non charitable uses.

Your chance to help and get involved !

Right now the help is being organised through Lions Club.

But let me know if anybody are up for helping out this weekend and I will put you in contact with the coordinator from Lions.

ON ON BBJ

The handful of non-Hashers huddled in a corner of the upstairs room at Lucky Pub.  Would there be no end to the stream of load badly dressed people clumping up the stairs and taking the best seats? 

The sigh of relief shook the windows when the GM ordered the pack out onto the footpath to receive their orders.  Only Noel and No Knickers stayed behind, mumbling something about a heavy night.

Eighteen souls gathered for the blessing and to receive the usual metro tokens.  But no!  “The trail starts here,” announced hares Beer King and Just Yulia.  “It’s marked with bones. Skulls are checks. Check it out!”

Off we scampered, calling and gesticulating. The trail took us towards Palats Sportu, then veered to the right.  Just as we got into our stride there was a beer stop.  Down into a basement bar we dived, where beer and wine were sold on-tap by the litre.  We drank as much as the Hash budget would allow.  Then we went back blinking into the light.  It was like a symbolic resurrection.

Through the streets we ran, finding a big round skull chalked at almost every corner.  “Checkpoint!” we called behind us.  But the front-running bastards were so fast, and the walkers were so slow, that we were soon spread out over a vast distance.  So the calling had little effect.  Each little cluster of sprinters, runners, joggers, walkers, strollers or chatters that came to a checkpoint had to work out its own salvation.

It seemed like a long run by the time we came to a bland block of apartments between Respublikansky Stadion and Druzhby Narodov metro stations.  Was this place chosen as a metaphor for the realm of the undead, ’twixt Heaven and Hell?  No.  It was chosen because Baby BJ and Shave My Ass live there and invited us back for an On-On after the Circle*.

We used a convenient table-tennis table as a bar while we waited while the tail-enders caught up and before we circled.  The Hares were soundly downdowned for the shitty run of course; and more specifically for leading the pack into a pub with no loo.  This could have had disastrous consequences on an urban run with hardly a tree in sight.  The Acting RA was moved to sing the old Australian ballad ‘A Pub With No Beer’.  The pack was visibly moved.  Then the hares were down­down­ed again for setting the trail in a car. 

Other highlights of the Circle were:

• The welcoming of Cow Slammer – a visitor from Warsaw Hash – and his down­down­ing for persistent gross mobile ’phone abuse.
• Downdowning of returner Wrong Exit
• Downdowning of Shave My Ass for rollerblading on the trail.
• Downdowning of everyone who had attended the US Marines’ Ball the night before.
• Downdowning of BitchQuick as the chief Front Running Bastard.
• Naming of Just Yulia.  In a process that would have brought tears to the eyes of the ancient Greek inventors of democracy, she was named Witch Stick.
• Farewelling of Hilly Billy and Hardon.

For the first time in a long time Weekend Delight did not make anyone come.

On-on!

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*  The Circle is the sacred gathering at the end of every run, when newcomers, visitors, virgins and returners are greeted; sinners are punished; and the Hash Hymn is sung.  The On-On is a profane social gathering after the Circle.

Pix are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/50745860@N04/

Hello to all you hashers!  Thank you for a very well organised hash , this time it was cool.  Well      done Sean and company. This hash , in my opinion had an even more international flavour than most.  We had several interesting new characters entering the frame, including a Swedish nurse (on! On!).  Piski Friends house must receive a big thank you for their efforts , it is easy to see that everyone benefitted from the day’s main event, which was the picnic, err I mean the run err I mean welcome,…the good bye.  You all had a great time, right.

Now for some history and this is from memory , as I have mislaid the link Unfinished symphony gave me.  Piski Friends house was founded about 5 years ago by Boas from Sweden and his Finnish wife, it seems they have been helped by a support team , raising finances back in Sweden, great job, (on! On!) .  This support is comprised of a Swedish nurse (on! On!) and several other lingerie models (on! On!).  But despite the support of such a dynamic team they still need your continued support.  By the way, the Friends’ house (the name given to the orphanage) is the first of its kind in Ukraine and is legally protected by an act of parliament (2005), enabling these foreign-controlled ventures to exist.  So good news, they have done something right!

Seriously,  the Friends House is a really excellent “facility” , with plenty of space, a recently refurbished living room, some nice art photos, and an excellent group of kids, managers, cooks, housekeepers etc.  I think you all agree, it was great to see such a great group people working together to make things better.  Despite, the difficult start many of the children have had , it was very interesting to see the house doing it’s job and developing happy, helpful and independent young people.  I massively enjoyed , playing football with the kids and I could see other people enjoying themselves too.

This time, it was nice to see, there was a great team effort made in preparing the food.  There was cabbage, onion and cheese pie,  tonnes of sausage, chicken and milk sausage, salads coming out of our ears…  Each of you mucked in and it was great to have the use of a gas barbeque, less char-grilled more haute cuisine.  Thank you, again Boas and company.  Everything worked well and indeed it did, make great sense to have the pudding after the run! 

Just Dartmouth (Rebecca?)  definitely made a new friend. Those two were really attached to each other. Rebecca made some new friends.  Bill and Judy also made some new friends.  Julia and Unfinished symphony did a great job with the official photos and the village was a real piece of scenery.  Did you see the goats (on!), the Turkeys (on! On!) and the villagers (on!on! On!)?!  Seriously, it was quite a change from Kiev. 

Suchquiet……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..too.  It was a very quiet village.

So mission accomplished, children and hashers fed, batteries charged, new friends made…Read more about the orphanage here – http://childrensembassy.wordpress.com/

Thank you for reading the hash trash.