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Saturday 12th August 2006
    
So today was a bit of a non-day. Nothing much happened. Our washing machine broken (or, at least, very leaky and not very good at washing clothes), we headed over to Halton to get our clothes washed at M****'s mum's place. M**** cleaned the car, and I kept an eye on A******, as he continued his favourite activity at the moment - supported walking.
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That purple thing there is an artichoke, apparently. Weird, eh? Much later on that night (half past ten?), M**** and I were taking in the afore mentioned clothes from our washing line and I stopped to check out the sky - fairly clear, but the odd cloud or two. There were a few dozen stars visible, but it was probably half and half clear sky to clouds kind of ratio. So yeah . . . I was looking straight up (zenith?) and you could see the odd moving star or two . . . satellites, planes, whatever. And then, all of a sudden . . . whooooosh . . . a shooting star shot past, parallel in direction to my street, so heading pretty much south-west. But I'm not sure if I actually heard a whooooosh or not. I also had the impression the object was travelling very low, but as it was just a pin-prick of light, I don't know how I would know this. Then I remembered - The Perseids! But yeah . . . erm . . . I think that was it.
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