a fairground life( ying and yang)

Yesterday afternoon the other skydiver lightbox went down too. So the ride was almost in total darkness apart from the coloured spot banks (AKA traffic lights). While I was trying to determine the problem, which turned out to be a loose connection, I had pulled a wire out of a small transformer on the logic board. So a quick surf of the net revealed that this was a "sub miniature transformer, mains input,100 ma load, 9v-0-9v" (great thing this internet) and Maplin around the corner had 1 in stock. This I picked up at 10am this morning. While en-route,  I had a discussion with "r" about the top light box (10x4 matrix). I told him a story about how 25 years ago me and "bk" had reversed the ribbon cable inside by mistake one day and that this resulted in no lights working". OH! he said, I had the ribbon cable off by mistake and thought it would only go back on one way. Well not being too optimistic, "r" reversed the cable while I fitted the new transformer to the other light box. "Hallelujah"(hope thats not a racist remark these days), not one but two working light boxes! A few minutes later the cosmic balance was restored when my wife called and told me that she had a blow out on the jeep. One of those expensive new tyres that I put on in December. The spare is back on and yes the diffs are winding up again, top speed 10 mph!!! So I've ordered in another for Monday. I almost thought Kia's were perfect.