I start with a strange tale this month. During that wet mucky spell of weather a few weeks back, Mrs H was topping the windscreen washer bottle up on the car. We don’t use the car much during the winter months. The country lanes are in such a poor state around us, plus with the tractors in and out of the fields, it’s safer to use the truck.
Alarm bells
She mentioned that there was a load of small shells or nuts on top of the wheel arch next to the washer bottle. After a few moments, my lethargic brain cells processed the information and slowly alarm bells started ringing.
Last year our neighbour across the road bought a new 4x4. Not long afterwards, he got a new firm’s vehicle with his job. So naturally, he used that most of the time and the new one got parked up. The frightening part of this was some rats took up residence under the bonnet and in their spare moments thought it would be fun to chew the electrical wiring. This resulted in an eye-watering bill of £1500 to rectify.
Detective work
This sounded almost like the same situation that we could
