Thanks Pizazz got it!

Leonids a very sore subject at this point - we(The British Isles) were meant to go through the shower between 01:30 and 03:00 GMT so Narsil wraps up in his thermals and heads out to the observatory with a load of other loonies.

01:00 - thick fog
03:00 - thicker fog

03:10 - fog so thicK you can hardly see the car bonnet(we are talking pea souper here).

04:00 Back home-Narsil crashes out on sofa to spare waking up wifey

06:00 Wifey pokes Narsil awake - you guessed it, from the house she had a wonderfully clear grandstand view of the Leonids when she got up in the night for a glass of water.

One sheepish and foolish Narsil!!