The Darkness

Is it me or is it dark in here? As many of you will be aware I run a bus project, we have a converted double decker bus that spent 15 years in service with the local bus company, 10 years after conversion being used by the local Youth for Christ and then 3½ years ago was brought by the charity I now work for. During most of this time it has given great service, however since my arrival it has broken down twice firstly about this time last year, it took until April before we got it back on the road. The a couple of months ago it just stopped as I was heading home late one night, I had to call out a mechanic at 11pm to the middle of nowhere. Now the electrics have gone wrong, without sockets we could still run it would reduce what we could do obviously but we could still do something, but no it’s the lighting circuit that has gone, no idea why, just that if we turn that switch on at the fuse box we trip out the whole bus (or as we discovered the other day half the house that was kindly supplying us with the electricity!) Running sessions in the confines of a bus in the dark are just no go, it would not be safe, so once again we are currently off the road apart from day time sessions. Still tis the season to be jolly!