Eish! "johanscarinditchhithorse"

Just the thing for a peacful Sunday evening - an SMS saying your husband is upside down in a ditch!

Johan had left home at about 6.30 (already dark) to go to Meyerton to collect take-aways for supper (lazy wife obviously). On the main road he had suddenly run into 3 horses on the orad - he tried to avoid them by driving onto the verge but right at that particular spot the verge was very narrow and the car rolled sideways over and over down into a steep gully.

Rob & Beth found him - saw a dead horse on the side of the road stopped to look and saw Johan crawling out of the back window of the bakkie (door wedged against a tree trunk and difficult to open when upside down!) - but another person had also seen the horse so then there was Monica come to see what could be done, then the neighbourhood watch people and the police and the owners of the horses and then finally me - with a peppering of other residents who stopped to see what was going on! Johan was completeley fine - just cut his had from the windscreen glass when he opened his safety belt! An absolute miracle.

The owners had recently had their gate repaired but apparently it kept opening and closing of its own accord (electric gate) - need I state the obvious - why were they keeping their horses in the area with a faulty gate? Huh, huh?

Then is was all waiting for the horse to be winched away, waiting for the tow truck etc - and the car is a complete write off so now Johan is back to the old white truck, cardboard window replacement tied on with bright orange baler twine, exhaust has holes in so it sounds like a tractor - Michael is going to be extremely embarrassed when that pitches up to collect him from school! And then there is the form filling in etc etc etc. Yikes.

Johan jetted off to Mauretania last night so at least he doens't need a car for the immediate future while it is all being sorted out!