Thursday 31st August. The baby brother rang to see whether I had spotted a meteor over Bristol that afternoon as “I’m due on Radio Bristol any minute to talk about it.”  A man called Gordon Busche had seen such a phenomenon and sent in a photo. Apparently it was a bright blob with a discernible tail and had been moving from east to west at great speed. Unfortunately I had been on the bus at the time and must have missed it. As Colin has now morphed from “Professor Beagle” to the resident expert on all things meteor/meteorite he had been contacted by local radio. He did not dismiss it and was hopeful that someone else had seen it;  in particular managed to get a moving picture so that it could be gauged how fast the thing was travelling. Sadly, at the moment, no-one appears to have come forward. If you saw something, now’s your chance…..