I know it's not, but it's just........that sound and the possibility of stepping on one barefoot..........innit 

My toes are curling now and I'm in the house 

I'm in pitch black Sussex with a clear sky and there's nothing happening 

I have in barefeet...I iz brave  I screamed 

I've got it! It's all you flippin out in the country folk that's got the best view innit    

same here in Cumbria Cosi.... and there's not a cloud to be seen 

I've still got my sandals on and me toes are still curling  

nobody is seeing owt Pam.... you're missing nowt, fact! 

you will have blood and guts on your cream carpet 

Anti climax then 

tell me about it  

*Giggles and puts can down cos she can't drink yet* 

*reet I'm off to look for these bloody elusive stars..... see you tomorrow*  

I think Ditty's getting us at it.  She's probably in bed giggling whilst we're getting cricks in our necks (and slugs squashed in our toes).

Reminds me of my grandad.  He used to take all of us kids - me and the cousins, out for a walk.  He'd stop, slap bang in the middle of the high street, point up to the sky and we'd all look up.  For ages.

Nothing there, of course - but the amount of people who'd stop and stand with us looking for something that wasn't there 

Cosmic! 

I luv it! 

We're off out now to see them...    you have to have a bit of patience people..   they are a bit like buses...   they all come at once... in spurts!

first time we went out to see them the boy was only about 9 or 10..    he was looking in the opposite direction every time we saw one...   we had to stay out til he actually managed to see one for himself!

Right...   Grumpy teenage girl has finally complied & got herself ready...  I have got redressed (including bra!!  HA - TAKE THAT PSYCHO BADGERS!!)

I will return later with my glory stories of shooting star awesomeness!

Move away, move away. There is nothing to see here. Until just before dawn.  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...environment-19196174

I was sold a lemon!  Mind you, quite amused at the thought of Ditty and Ickle falling asleep when it all kicks off. 

Like I said......flippin anti climax innit 

I saw FOUR of the tricky little buggers! 

Best direction is north east!

We drove out to the marsh..... I was too much of a wuss to get out of the car at first. What if there were rapists in the fields behind me?  Or worse! Badgers! 

We only had one patch of sky to watch, cos of the clouds.....luckily it was vaguely in the right direction....but then the clouds decided to ruin everything! But at least I saw FOUR before they did....and Duds only saw one, much to his disgust! The trick is to NEVER EVER EVER look away, even if your neck is screaming at you to give up.  

They're BEST before dawn..... but they're all night long

But I'm in the Norf East Ducks, went out the door and looked up.......nowt! 

Well done, Ducky 

Just because you're in the Norf East, doesn't mean you were looking Norf East. 

We watched for about 20 mins...and saw 4 Sprouty, and they're easy to miss....Duds was looking in the right direction and still managed to miss 3 of them They're very obvious though....there's no mistaking them! 

I bet you came indoors too quick on account of it being bliddy freezing in the NE  

That's got bliddy nowt to wiv it! 

Thanks Cosi I'm most pleased that I managed to make it home......I don't like driving out in the wilderness when it's dark. I start imagining breaking down and having to walk home in the pitch black, avoiding all the murderers and moths  

*Goes out again and tries to see. (That'll be three times tonight)* 

Stay there till you do! 

I can't believe I've just been out on the drive, not a soul in sight, looking up and giggling to myself at the crassness of it all 

Did you see one between the giggles?  

We're back..  I saw about 8,   the others saw more (I was cursed with always looking the wrong way).

2 of them were beauties though...   massive with long tails that stayed in the sky for ages!!!

I am buzzing from the meteor spotting  

we came back cos there was someone the other side of the orchard doing a laser show with their (obviously expensive) torch...   so then MrD had to go into battle of the (expensive) torches & start laser showing back to them.. & then Ickle started freaking saying they were probably serial killers (stalking around the orchards with a torch )

then Ickle mistook OUR dog for a badger! 

He does look a bit badgery...if you squint hard  

Poor AJ...    its like one of us being called a hippo 

How can you have action where you are but I don't Ditty!  Overcast here right now and the only lights I've spotted are from the effin' planes taking off from Heathrow! 

blah blah blah...   this ain't our first rodeo       

its an annual event in this house 

That's what I wanna know too! *stamps foot*

you just have to be looking in the right direction at the right time...    it can be ages between them...  

the light pollution you have there may mean you don't see the smaller ones..   but the two biggies we saw I reckon even in the city you'd see it.

PATIENCE is the key