Date: 3rd September  2018……………………
Location:Broadbeach ……………………………
Runners: 30…………………………………………..
Run Pictures……………………………………..

It was a rather cool night, right near the tramline. It was quite dark, as the park lights were not turned on. The city council should investigate this. The gas BBQ was also inoperative.   Now we know why we bring our own torches.

Generally all the runners enjoyed the run and walk.

The meal tonight was hot soup, curried sausage with rice and peas. Plenty of buttered bread. Followed up by apple crumble and ice cream.

8:15.pm .GM Weekly opened the circle.

He called on the returning runners and our visitor, Green Machine from Melbourne. Fanny Charmer did the down down for these fellows.

Our hare Nasty was called into the circle with Bent Banana who presented our devoted GM Weekly with a shiny new stainless steel hip flash. Now how is the Winston Churchill going to drink hooch while cigar is tight in his lips?

Food report.    Given by Nasty who informed us that the nosh portion control was exact.   A down down followed.

GM mentions we have a guest RA tonight. It was no other than Ice Man. He does tell a good story and jokes. Ice Man calls Arse Nik to show his slippers, or what he calls running shoes to the circle.

The two birthday boys, Jig Saw and Ferritt were given a birthday chorus and a warm down down. Fuller Shit agrees to bring more birthday beers next week. We are being spoilt by all the Birthdays. Thanks.

The past adventure bike ride around Southport and the passport answers will be made available to the City Counsel.

A reminder was given about the lunch on the 4^th November. Please put your name on the attendance list with the 13 others.

Next weeks run.   This will be at Florida Gardens near to Fanny Chamers residence. So guys stand by for another surprise evening.

Quote of the week. Winston Churchill.

“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”

8: 30pm.  Circle was closed.

Cheers.  On On. Sec

Date: 27th August  2018………………………….
Location: Bundall ……………………………….
Runners: 35…………………………………………….
Run Pictures………………………………………….

Venue: Phantom Castle, Sorrento.

Quote by Sweathog, Acting Booze Master and Official R.A.:

‘I go the gym every morning’

Maybe that is why he is multi skilled?

Ask him about it. There is more to it.

The Nosh:

Fuller pronounced it – Delicious!

Course 1: Your choice of pumpkin or onion soup with croutons.

I had onion as I had had homemade pumpkin soup on Sunday evening. My onion soup was delicious and accompanied by buttered bread.

Course 2: Sumptuous baby pies and sausage rolls with hand made sauce – divine.

By this stage the hounds were almost sated and conversation had reduced to a whisper.  Some notables led by Bren Gun went back for seconds and thirds. Indeed, after 3-7 samples many were staggering back to their chairs in the 4-car garage.

But wait – there was more!!

Course 3:

When all had settled back into their seats and were rubbing their tummies or falling asleep, out came trays of Chilli con Carne nestled in soft Taco shells.

Ole!

Surely that was it and Phantom and his team of Older Brother Graeme and Son in Law Peter would be forgiven if they did not offer dessert.

But!!

Course 4:

This time we had to drag ourselves to our feet and move to the inner garage where the Corvette is wrapped. There we were offered Pasta Bolognese – delicious. Bolognese sauce rich in tomato and al dente pasta. Serious trenchermen staggered back with steaming plates while others looked on in awe. Botcho commented that your scribe might be over indulging. But why not? This was good Nosh.

Ok, that was it.

But no!!

Course 5: The host and his helpers then produced carrot cake freshly cooked and with whipped cream. They even provided plate and spoons/forks.

Finally there was no more. The assembled multitude relaxed finally convinced that they had enjoyed a feast to rival the great ones that had taken place in the previous two weeks.

Seamlessly the GM called for the furniture to be packed away to groans from the mob that was hoping for a seated Circle while they recovered.

A table was reserved for the GM to place his paraphernalia and your scribe was also given a table and chair to ensure the Words were recorded correctly.

The Circle:

Run Report:

The runners were picked up in a Maxi Taxi and taken to Royal Pines Resort. On arrival at the entrance they had expectations of a quite night of luxury. Not so – they had to run 5km home with no markings all the while carrying Arsenic who had damaged a fetlock.

Walk report:

A gentle real estate tour around Sorrento checking out Kwakka’s first house that he built between 1900 & 1976 and baying at the yellow moon, which was at the end of every street. Well marked and a good length. Some tricky detours up lanes that fooled Shat, Sir Slab and Hard On. Even Swindler and VD would have been confused, but they weren’t with us.

GM’s Bike Ride report: 15 riders even though there were plenty of competitive events.

GM’s Lunch: Sunday 4^th November. $45/head. Pay now to ensure a seat. Free everything.

Splinter Lunch Report: at Goa, Tedder Avenue. $125 raised for Drought Appeal. Well done Circumference! Swollen Colon stole your scribe’s machine gun case but was caught by RA and given a Down Down. Thanks for looking after it Swollen.

Ferret was also given a Down Down to mark his success in winning the Bridge to Brisbane Run. Maybe that was the mature age class?

RA told a lovely story about the Pope in Ireland and a wheelchair drunk who missed a miracle.

Next weeks Run: Nasty at Cascade Gardens.

The GM told us ‘ You cannot make the poor richer by making the rich poorer ‘

Author: Winston Churchill

And finally he saved any pain to usual suspects by announcing the end of circle himself

End of Circle – 9.03pm

The suburb:

Sorrento was developed during the 70’s by Sir Bruce Small who was mayor around that time – is history repeating itself now with our much loved developer mayor? Sir Bruce had just finished Isle of Capri and had some sand leftover. What to do? Why not another Italian masterpiece?

History suggests he did well. Both suburbs command high prices.

Bruce Small, as he was originally, was a blow-in from Melbourne but born in Sydney. He made his first fortune making Malvern Star [a Melbourne suburb] Bikes and flogging them through his General Accessories wholesale business. At one point he had 100+ stores and 1000+ dealers.

He gave Hubert Opperman his first good bike. Oppy went on to compete in the Tour du France when it went into the night and many other long European races.

In 1956 the Tandem winners in the Melbourne Olympics rode a Malvern Star.

On On,

Acting Scribe

Carefree

Date: 24th August  2018………………………….
Location: Goa Indian Fusion Main Beach …

Hosts: Wrongway, Carefree, Weekly……..

Run Pictures………………………………………….
What did the Shetland Pony say when asked if his cough had cleared up?
“Yes, thanks, but I’m still a little horse.”

Date: 20th August  2018………………………….
Location: Robina ……………………………….
Runners: 46…………………………………………….
Run Pictures………………………………………….

The runners reported that it was a good run. There were a few times where the trail markings went cold. After a little bit of searching the chalk arrows was found. The running area was a maze of lanes and roads, which makes things interesting.

On returning we noticed that there were bowls of Bean Sprout Soup with Beef on the tables. It did not take long and the runners were faced down consuming the favored dish. This was a meal in it self.

Another added surprise is that this was followed by Beef mince in a cradle of fresh Green Lettuce.  Again to our surprise, it was followed by desert of deep fried banana topped with ice cream. This was a second week of a great nosh evening. The cooks did a fantastic job.

8:16 PM.  Fanny Chalmer was the GM for tonight. (Stand in for GM Weekly)

S-Bends informs that tonight, is the night of three of our birthday boys. Slab, Phantom, and VD. These special runners were called into the circle and a Happy Birthday chorus was sung to them. Tonight’s turn out by runners is amazing, and running mates gave Birthday wishes to the Birthday Boys.  All enjoyed the low cost beer.

Run report.  Brutus gave this report. He said it was a great run. Botcho added to the comment saying it was magnificent as was the nosh.

Tonight hares.  SIR SLAB AND SIR PRINCE, were called into the circle for a down down.   (Much bigger than the Coles add) A big many thanks for excellent nosh.

Some runners enquired about next week’s run as they thought the last two runs were difficult to beat.

Commonwealth bike ride in Southport. 19^th August 2018.

Ball Bag was questioned why he was absent from this event. He endeavored to give some lame excuse but that was, disregarded by the runners. Never the less he was given a down down.

Ball Bag then proceeded to give a story about fishing, which brought much laugher to the runners.

Poxy tonight also celebrates the arrival his fourth grand daughter. A down down proceeded for this Grand Dad. Poxy also tells a joke about a nurse examining some guys black testicles. This also has the runners in fits of laughter.

One of our favorite joke tellers, Ice Man, told a joke about a centipede where a lot of time was taken to start a run, as there were a lot of running shoes to be laced up.

KB entered the circle to mention that the run and nosh of the last Monday’s night run was a combined effort of participating team members of the runners. He thanks everybody for all the hard work in the preparation and the cleaning up afterwards.

We were also informed that Miscarriage was a trained butcher. In the past he had his own butcher shop. It was called “Eat My Meat”. No further comment. We’re also told that he placed his father into an old age home. Only to go around chasing all the nurses. He was given a down down for his kindness bestowed on his father.

Visitors.   These were drawn into the circle to give a short brief about them self’s. Warm welcome goes to Derrick (Gold Coast), Ly (Cambodia) Peter (Tally) and Sprung.

The GM was very pleased about the turn out of runners this evening. He thanked all for making these runs so great and thanks all for their attendance.

To close the evening off in the right mood, Fuller Shit tells a joke about a person going into a sex shop to buy a vibrator for a lady friend

Next week’s run. This will at 25 Argyle Crescent. Bundall.

Splinter Lunch. 24^th August 2018. This is to be at Goa Indian Restaurant, Main Beach.

8.40pm.   Sir Jo was called to end the circle.

Date: 13th August  2018………………………….
Location: Southport ……………………………….
Runners: 49…………………………………………….
Run Pictures………………………………………….

Tonight’s run is to celebrate Joe’s birthday and congratulate him on his completion of his 1000th run. Well-done Joe.

S-Bends, our drinks master extends free beer and free tucker to Joe on this special day.

Tonight’s cooks will be Botcha and Kitchen Bitch (KB.) They looked good in their catering uniforms.

The tables over a high roof were beautifully dressed in black tablecloths with white porcelain plates under a well-lit area. What a great place for all of us to meet.

The run was well marked and made it easy to do the run.  There was good attendance but a few mates or runners were absent. They would have enjoyed the evening. Maybe these people could be contacted by their mates and encouraged to attend.

7:25 PM.  The runners are called to take their seats. This was to be a special occasion as there was waiter service available. Many thanks to Arse Nic and others for being such good waiters.

The first course to come out of the kitchen was prawn cocktail with slices of Avocado Pear on tasty baked bread.

Later out came the second course consisting of roast lamb with mint sauce, green peas and baked potatoes. What a feast this was.

9:50 PM.    Circle opened.

Visitors and returning runners.   This was Bum Crack, Mickey Pedia, Rock Hard and Derek.

The hares were KB and Botcho. All runners were good on the trial all the way. It was neither to long nor to short. Some how on this run the runners and the walkers came together near the end.

Run report.   This was giving by Two Dogs and he mentioned he had to catch up with our GM Weekly.  Botcho requested beers for his down  down as this was now the new policy. He commented how hard the cooks worked in the kitchen. All runners cheered and welcomed the down down to Botcho and KB.

Nosh report.     Many described this as brilliant. May be the best of the year.

With a record turn out of participants. A well deserved down down was given.

Sir Joe had to be Knighted by GM Weekly before the chocolate birthday cake had to be sliced up into manageable pieces. Sir Joe was instructed to kneel and the GM placed his sword on his shoulder and declared that he was now called Sir Joe. All cheered and clapped in approval.

The cake then was served with generously coated ice cream and grated chocolate on top.

The GM presented a black Hash jacket to Sir Joe. It took 30 years of running to be awarded this honour tonight.

KB was praised for his past efforts and contributions.  KB then paid tribute to all his 50 friends and runners he had around him tonight.

Two Dogs had the honour to award the down down.

GM requested Care Free to enter the circle. A cap was presented for achieving 100 runs. Hal Al awarded the down down.

Bike Ride.      It is scheduled for next Sunday. All are encouraged to participate and bring family and friends. The bike ride will commence at the Council Chambers in Southport. A passport or instruction booklet will be handed out to the participants.

A reminder about the lunch at Goa Indian Fusion Restaurant, Main Beach on the 24^th Aug 2018.

For their heckling of the GM tonight, Kwakka and Caustic were punished with a down down.

There was much excitement and glee when runners were notified that the GM could not be in intendance next week.

Prick of the Week.    Poxy called into the circle, Sir Rabbit, Ball Point, Mad Mike and Wrongway.  Some how Wrongway received this POW trophy for a past nosh up.

Sweathog told a joke. Afterwards all wanted to know where Iceman was.

Swollen Colon, Shat, Bum Crack were called into the circle. These runners were placed into certain order to demonstrate a chain of events of tonight’s nosh. Firstly the nosh went into Swollen Colon, then into Bum Crack and lastly out of Shat.

S –Bends advised that we all had a great birthday night, but next week we celebrate three birthdays.  So all booze will be one dollar each. Now you know why the GM will not be here, too much fun for him!!

A charge was presented by Circumference. This was to high light a Red Shoe night worn both by Truckie and Mike. One could see these runners red shoes, a long way off.

Next weeks run.  This is planned to be in Robina, Cheltenham Drive.

Joke of the week.

A Chinese Guy comes into the pub, stands next to me and starts drinking. I said to him, do you know any of those martial arts, like kung Fu,Ju-jitsu or Karate?      He says why Da fuk you ask me dat, is it coz I Chinese?   No I said it’s because you’re drinking my Fucking Beer!!!

Circled closed at 9.35pm.

That’s all for now.

ON ON   Sec