The sewage inlet,
To pass the time while we waited for various things we would play tomatoes and sweetcorn, you would pick one your colleague the other and then you would watch the inlet channel and count tomato seeds and sweet corn kernels, first to a hundred won. You could count other things but that can get gross very quickly.
I was once chased around a wet well by the biggest floater in the world ! There I was up to my chest in Mrs jones dirty water and stuff wearing full waders hard hat and clip board and pencil taking notes when the huge log dropped through the inlet and proceeded towards me like some sort of guided torpedo! Well you don’t want to slip in that sort of environment and depth was not my friend so I was tippy toeing in the opposite direction as fast as possible, happily the P1 float initiated around that time and the level and current in the wet well changed so I got back to the ladder intact! That afternoon as I drove home from Hoyle Rd sps under the flight path from Heathrow I was looking for anyone walking with a limp as I am convinced the owner of that immense specimen must have been left somewhat traumatised and rectally incapacitated
anyway I digress, yes it was the inlet channel before the screens at the head of the works.Moxi
