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Clean Culvert, Ripley - October 2012

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Yorrick

A fellow of infinite jest
28DL Full Member
I saw in leads or rumours that someone had left a tin of biscuits in a wheelbarrow.

There was some other stuff about water or pipes or something but there’s often some distraction from the main event.

So, with flask of coffee and dunking cup packed, I set off for elevenses.

I followed the directions and headed upstream.

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The pump outfall – I must be close.

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The promised ladder.

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As I got to here Styru’s warning of traps flitted through my mind, followed by images of Robert Herpmann as the Child Catcher

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It really did feel like a set up

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And there was the wheel barrow, everything’s fine. Time for coffee and …but wait … the barrow is empty….there’s no biscuits.

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Very disappointed, I headed out.

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Is that pump driven by hydraulic fluid? Not seen that before.

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Thought I’d take a little look up top, but there was a repair man with a security guard mending a big Volvo.

Seriously though, a nice culvert. Maybe 500 yards long. Brick and stone and built around 1860 ish?

Not a bad way to spend half an hour​
 
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