Demonic possesion

It sometimes seems that life is a bewildering series of wild events whose improbability exceeds the last one, this week has been no different.

Whilst I was off with the girls being famous, management was driving the bottom of the valley. She mentioned that the van had been behaving a bit oddly but I am used to that from her and thought no more about it.

So bright and early next day I got in the van and saw what she meant.

Now the IVECO has become a bit eccentric of late leaving the fuse in the speedo slot would make the lights come on. Switch on the headlights and the speedo would work.

But now we had more.

Wipers developed their own will, occasionally wiping the screen once then going dormant, switching the wipers on sometimes but not always made them work.

Lights blazed, flashed and flickered on the dash and finally and bizarrely, sat outside the house the headlights would switch themselves on for a minute then switch themselves off.

This was obviously demonic possession or Italian wiring or both.

Either way I knew it wasn't supposed to do this, so off the the auto electricians through the raging tempest with occasional wipers and head light that would flash at oncoming drivers whenever they felt like.

A fairly unique experience but one related to our current weather.

You might have noticed the quantities of water falling out of the sky and much of it had got into the IVECO electrics.

I still don't have a working horn and the ABS seems to be on strike, but we are getting there.

Tomorrow Taff was supposed to be going North to a new home in the Wirral, so today was going to be a frenzy of work.

Thankfully the buyer has decided to put things back a week - that means I was spared lying round under the truck in the rain.

A win win situation.

Tomorrow does not look good on the weather forecast front.

Mind you they are talking about snow for Monday!

R