The Brussels Manneke Piss Hash House Harriers always throws a spectacular Christmas Ball and this year was no exception. And, yes that is me with a rather fetching member of the Hash Committee called "Satan's Lill' Helper".
The Ball was held on 9th December in the Schuman district of Brussels only a few yards from the EU in L'Atelier, Rue Franklin. The whole thing kicked off at 7:30pm and the last guests were poured into their taxis at 05:15am the next morning - pretty good going as I know for a fact that many of those hardy souls had been out on the pre-Christmas pub-crawl the night before until the wee small hours. I left the former event at 4am and the latter - well I don't actually remember the time!
It is amazing how good some hashers look in dj's or posh frocks.
I did say, "some" - Higgins always looks kind of odd somehow!
The whole evening was very proper to start with
Then things started to get a bit wilder when the blow up doll appeared.
We had Oscar like nominations and awards for various categories like
As well as the awards - and there were lots of others, but I forget what they were for we also had some entertainment and I was part of one of the sketches.
Four of us Brits got together and did the "Four Yorkshireman" sketch from Monty Python - you know the one "Eee Luxury, we used to dream of living in a cardboard box". It was very well received and we got a load of laughs.
After the dinner was over the dancing and disco started and things got a lot more hash like
To everyone's amazement no one, for the first time in living memory, took their clothes off (not even Higgins or Sex Goddess) - but we did have three or four gravity testers falling off bar stools, walking into glass doors or tripping over their own feet, but no one was hurt.
All in all an excellent night.
Of course, we were all out running the next morning. For further pictures see
Forrest Gulps official photographs of the Party and
Forrest Gulps photos of the hangover run
The Ball was held on 9th December in the Schuman district of Brussels only a few yards from the EU in L'Atelier, Rue Franklin. The whole thing kicked off at 7:30pm and the last guests were poured into their taxis at 05:15am the next morning - pretty good going as I know for a fact that many of those hardy souls had been out on the pre-Christmas pub-crawl the night before until the wee small hours. I left the former event at 4am and the latter - well I don't actually remember the time!
It is amazing how good some hashers look in dj's or posh frocks.
I did say, "some" - Higgins always looks kind of odd somehow!
The whole evening was very proper to start with
Then things started to get a bit wilder when the blow up doll appeared.
We had Oscar like nominations and awards for various categories like
- "Best Trail" for which myself and Baby Snatcher got a nomination for her farewell trail back in the spring (won by Puss in Boots and Naughty Nuke for an excellent trail earlier in the Autumn.
- "Best new comer" won by Half Monty (so called because he was always having his trousers pulled down)
- "Best turned out Hasher and Harriette" won by Lick'mm and Yark Sucker
- and finally the premier award was announced - "The Hashalong Memorial Award" for "Best Hare of the Year". To my amazement I WON! It was a real honour.
As well as the awards - and there were lots of others, but I forget what they were for we also had some entertainment and I was part of one of the sketches.
Four of us Brits got together and did the "Four Yorkshireman" sketch from Monty Python - you know the one "Eee Luxury, we used to dream of living in a cardboard box". It was very well received and we got a load of laughs.
To everyone's amazement no one, for the first time in living memory, took their clothes off (not even Higgins or Sex Goddess) - but we did have three or four gravity testers falling off bar stools, walking into glass doors or tripping over their own feet, but no one was hurt.
All in all an excellent night.
Of course, we were all out running the next morning. For further pictures see
Forrest Gulps official photographs of the Party and
Forrest Gulps photos of the hangover run
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