Photo's finally...

The traffic was terrible.

Typical, go to start her tonight for a quick jolly out and nadda, not having any of it. Attempts to turn over then stops with the sound of a solenoid or relay going nuts then will attempt to turn over again once or twice. I think it's a flat battery but need to pull the other motor up next to her and get the old jump leads out. Oh well, have to delay the jolly for a day to two!

Sound like the battery. if you leave them for a couple of weeks the alarm etc will drain it.

Yeah thats what it seemed like, will sort over the next couple of days.

Yep pretty sure it'll be the battery, thats exactly what my '24S used to do every time

A new battery and she's happy as Larry, actually looks like the old battery was a little under powered and looking through the quite full service history (with receipts for wiper blades etc) it doesn't look like its had a new one in the last 7 years at least - did discover she has a leak in the back though which I'll need to take a look at, the carpet/foam backing was soaked! Still took her for a drive and all good!

when you get a dry day clear out the 4 drains for the sunroof, you can be sure its a blocked one thats caused the dampness

Ahh, I had the same thing on my Alfa GTV before - thanks for the advice!