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Thanks all for your responses.
Suzy, most of them would not be too hard. Only Kron 7 and Lindsay's 1 and 2 are very faint. Kron 3 is quite bright and I have no idea why it's not an NGC - I think people often confuse it with NGC 152 which is fainter but bigger. So I think you'd get most of the objects on the charts even with light pollution. The second part of the report which I'm still typing up includes obs with 15x70 binoculars as I wanted to see what could be picked up with these and I was surprised by how many SMC DSOs can be picked up just with binos. As Ron says, the challenge is knowing what's what. But if you start with the 3 bright patches in the tail of the comma of the SMC (NGCs 330, 346 & 371) you'll be able to identify most of the bits in the east. For the west, I've found the key is a right angled triangle asterism between NGC 104 and the body of the SMC. I'll mark it on one of my charts when I get a chance. I think you'd have quite a bit of fun exploring the area.
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