Ha, ha! Just remembered about another niggle; the intermittent and very brief flashing of the windscreen/headlight washer bottle warning light.....
first time this happened I immediately tried topping up the bottle to no avail - it already seemed to be brimming. All I can surmise is that because of the tortuous location and route of the feed pipe that an airlock has developed - the bottle may be nearing empty but there's water 'filling' the filler pipe.... keep meaning to try and 'bleed' any air with a small tube/pipe...