In reply to The Lemming:
If any birder's are in the room and are interested then my replacement binoculars have arrived and I love them. Yes, there is a little colour disfiguration on the tips of the rubber but I'm only talking a bout a few mills of colour change, which would have happened if I'd had them from new anyway.
So, a big thumbs up from me for saving one hundred and fifty notes on ex-demo binoculars.
If anybody is in the market for binoculars then I'm on my second pair of Vikings and its second-hand all the way for top notch quality.
Off out to see some tits.
http://shop.vikingoptical.co.uk/shop/category/ex-demo-binoculars/