I suspected as much. It looked noticeably brighter in the spectrograph guider but the moment I moved it onto the slit, the mist rolled in so no spectrum last night.
Robin
EDIT: No sign of rebrightening in later data in the AAVSO database though. I am now kicking myself for not grabbing the guider image
EDIT: I see the 7.3mag in VSS was in I. My guider camera is unfiltered and the nova is very interstellar reddened so probably explains why it looked so much brighter to me than the nearby Vmag 9.3 star