[Note to GM: if you want a write up about the run, ask someone who did it!  And if you want to hear about ailments just talk to anyone on the run.]

  This week, I decided to take inspiration from Lord Raleigh and take the bus to the hash as I’m not allowed to drive for three weeks.  On Tuesday I was in the operating theatre for four hours at the Royal Surrey in Guildford.

  They threw me out at 8:30pm the same day and fortunately someone met me and picked me up.  I asked her why she was taking me to her house and she explained that occasionally when I’m not hashing, volunteering or down the pub that I lived there.  Despite that, the hospital is worried that I can’t brake if some idiot runs into the road in front of me without me splitting open.  Anyway, the 715 went from just round the corner to within 200 yards of the hash, so out came my pensioner’s bus pass and off I went.  Thank you to Kelinchi for driving me home later.

  This was Mary when she heard what Grandad had done only five days after his operation:

  She then decided that if Grandad was going to be silly then she could be even sillier:

  I had a gentle stroll round chatting first to Strumpet and then Teddy Bear only covering 1.3 miles but here’s a map of Shiva’s trail [Ed: The red lines show the samll parts she missed which might explain why there was a stretck “with no flour”!]:

  The part of the trail that I short-cut went across Esher Common and must have passed within half a mile of Atalanta’s house.  She was absent this week so I hope she didn’t drive to Chobham by mistake.  Apparently, Esher Common is big in biodiversity with over 2,000 insect species having been recorded on this SSSI.  Many species are nationally scarce and include the brilliant emerald dragon (Somatochlora metallica), the small red damselfly (Ceriagrion tenellum) and the white-letter hairstreak butterfly (White‑letter Hairstreak).

  Petal was belatedly celebrating forty years of hashing.  We soon devoured two cakes (delicious) and some bubbly (well, I wasn’t driving).

  No Big Foot this week, so in the circle visitors were welcomed and the sinners castigated by Belcher.

  On this day in history, The Football Association was founded in 1863 at the Freemasons’ Tavern in London thus creating the first standardised rules of football. 1881 witnessed the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. In 1955, Austria regained its independence and in 1977, the last naturally occurring case of smallpox was recorded in Somalia.

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