The Canon 8x25 IS user has been going daily to Worcester to watch cricket.
The binocular works fine.
It has been over 30C for 5 days.
Yesterday or the day before when the match was over he went to the station to be told the train was cancelled. He waited, same again next train.
He went to the other Worcester train station to be told they would have to take him by taxi to Oxford.
Eventually 5 weary souls, including two nice ladies, were taken to Oxford in a people carrier.
He got home past midnight, but made new friends.
The trains have been cancelled all over because of the wrong type of heat. Road surfaces melting etc. in Cambridge and elsewhere.
Eventually a railway employee told him a pigeon had exploded and got onto the line, which was why the trains were cancelled.
I kid ye not.
This is so ridiculous, I suppose it is true.
It is now 33C and still rising.
29C in the lounge with air conditioner on all day and 35C in the kitchen.
Sleeping is tough, but eventually exhaustion takes over.
Good I am not in Texas or Las Vegas.
Mind you the Canon 8x25 IS worked fine in Perth Australia last year at over 40C.
The trouble was batteries cost 12 dollars or more there.
P.S.
The people carrier was found to be going the wrong way, by an observant passenger. It was going to Swindon.
The excuse by the driver was that the sat nav had packed up.
Anyone heard of a map?
That is why, besides no trains, they got home after midnight.
The binocular works fine.
It has been over 30C for 5 days.
Yesterday or the day before when the match was over he went to the station to be told the train was cancelled. He waited, same again next train.
He went to the other Worcester train station to be told they would have to take him by taxi to Oxford.
Eventually 5 weary souls, including two nice ladies, were taken to Oxford in a people carrier.
He got home past midnight, but made new friends.
The trains have been cancelled all over because of the wrong type of heat. Road surfaces melting etc. in Cambridge and elsewhere.
Eventually a railway employee told him a pigeon had exploded and got onto the line, which was why the trains were cancelled.
I kid ye not.
This is so ridiculous, I suppose it is true.
It is now 33C and still rising.
29C in the lounge with air conditioner on all day and 35C in the kitchen.
Sleeping is tough, but eventually exhaustion takes over.
Good I am not in Texas or Las Vegas.
Mind you the Canon 8x25 IS worked fine in Perth Australia last year at over 40C.
The trouble was batteries cost 12 dollars or more there.
P.S.
The people carrier was found to be going the wrong way, by an observant passenger. It was going to Swindon.
The excuse by the driver was that the sat nav had packed up.
Anyone heard of a map?
That is why, besides no trains, they got home after midnight.
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