Thanks for your replies, some sobering stories there! When our cordless phone was burnt out no part of our property was struck or any cables, it just seemed to be the general level of static in the air at the time of the close proximity of the storm being attracted to a device with presumably an electrical field of its own (as you can tell I know little about electricity). I have twice been less than 100yards from a strike when out in a storm and I am not going to be out in the open taking photos with the camera on a metal or carbon fibre tripod in a thunder storm!
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