Okay, it´s a dull Saturday evening, Mrs. Sancho is away and I´m home having put the kids to bed and there´s nothing on telly and I just finished my book. So I had this epiphany....Objective lens covers for bins, we carefully attach them, fret if we lose them, make sure they´re in the box when we sell them, but they don´t actually Do Anything, do they? I mean, if it´s not raining, by definition we don´t need them. If it IS raining, and we DO want to look through our binoculars, we can´t use them ´cos we wouldn´t see anything. If it IS raining and we DON´T Want to look through our binoculars, we let our binos hang on our chests, so the objective lenses are pointing down. Now even in Bray, the rain doesn´t fall upwards. So you don´t need the covers. And usually, I close my jacket over my bins anyway if it´s raining. Or, if it´s really raining and I´ve given up, I put the bins in their case. Where by definition they don´t need Objective Lens Covers. Especially the fiddly individual rubbery ones with the ringy thing on Swaro EL´s. Which hang and blow about in the wind and look silly anyway. You especially don´t need the covers if your bins are at home or in the car, ´cos they´re in the case anyway. Am I the last person on the planet to realise that Objective Lens Covers are totally pointless?