One of my Rules of Life is this ... if I can think of something , then someone, somewhere will probably be doing it. Whenever I go to a biggish twitch ( which I don't anymore (much)) I notice that there is a time, about 15 minutes after the target bird has been seen, when people start wandering around and socialising. Very often, they leave their £1200 telescope standing there, all on its own, while its owner is chatting to X or indeed Y. An unscrupulous person could easily sidle up to it, look through it for a minute or two to make what he/she is about to do look reasonable, then pick it up, sling it over his/her shoulder and walk off with it. Or simply take it off the tripod and slip it into their poacher's pocket. How hard could it be? Surely it's been done. Seriously. So ... what I say is, don't leave your telescope behind. Simple !! Or .... good idea this ... have a telescope that nobody would want to nick ! Like mine. It's far too heavy, and about 80 years old. As I've hinted in the title, there's loads of other ways to lose your telescope, so just watch out. Plus, I lost my first pair of binoculars in an "interesting "way. No doubt you'll get to know how eventually. Now , here's REM ... "Losing My Religion" One of REM shoved me out of the way many years ago..... that was on their first tour of the UK when nobody had heard of them, so they probably thought it was OK !
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