"Something" in the sky over MS/LA last evening

[Sherlock Holmes]

Lovely .
But what has all that got to do with the price of Parsnips ?

Ahh, lovely words "turnip" and "parsnip" rarely hear of them out here in Arizona (or any part of the US) takes me back to old England and our very hearty stews

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

The United States has some wonderful food and some incredible restaurants. But pies are a rarity here (unless they're apple or blueberry or banana cream). My wife (from Baltimore) fell in love with our pies when she was stationed in Britain a few years ago. We lived near a store named Urban Pies:

If they opened some of these in the USA they would clean up, nothing like it here, and so many Americans I know would love these pies. So much healthier too compared to McDonalds, Chick Fillet, In-n-Out, Wendy's, KFC, Chipotle etc etc etc.

Back East we have Chicken Pot Pie and that can be wonderful, but unlike a typical British pie, they only have pastry on the top.

 

[luiza]

Ahh, lovely words "turnip" and "parsnip" rarely hear of them out here in Arizona (or any part of the US) takes me back to old England and our very hearty stews

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Just made one an hour ago ,
Plus a decent International Casserole ( my review ).

Supermarkets have this annual Xmas game of who can bankrupt themselves first .
Our Asda is selling root veg at 8 pence (p) -- big bags of spuds , turnips , carrots ,sprouts ,parsnips , calabrese .

Mixed vegetable mash with the right seasoning and heat is a winter delight .

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Just made one an hour ago ,

Plus a decent International Casserole ( my review ).

Supermarkets have this annual Xmas game of who can bankrupt themselves first .
Our Asda is selling root veg at 8 pence (p) -- big bags of spuds , turnips , carrots ,sprouts ,parsnips , calabrese .

Mixed vegetable mash with the right seasoning and heat is a winter delight .

Something else that doesn't happen in the USA is coal fires, nope, people's jaws drop when I talk of them here.

An open coal fire was part of my childhood growing up in the 60s in Liverpool in an old beat up Dickensian house, fond memories of Christmases long gone.

Back then the fire was the television, we'd sit around and talk while the fire warmed us with it's own visual vibrancy. Such conversations never happen when everyone gathers around a television, totally different experience.

When you gather around a fire people's attention is on one another, with a television peoples' attention is on the television.

 

[luiza]

Something else that doesn't happen in the USA is coal fires, nope, people's jaws drop when I talk of them here.

An open coal fire was part of my childhood growing up in the 60s in Liverpool in an old beat up Dickensian house.

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Nice post .
But good old Charles Dickens ( undoubted genius) did more to romanticise and sentimentalise the past than is actually good .

Damn it . I watched the Alistair Sims version of Scrooge earlier and had to pretend to wipe some speck out of my eye

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Nice post .
But good old Charles Dickens ( undoubted genius) did more to romanticise and sentimentalise the past than is actually good .

Yes, there's a lot of truth in that, I don't know much about the man, a biographical film would be interesting.

Damn it . I watched the Alistair Sims version of Scrooge earlier and had to pretend to wipe some speck out of my eye

Well the Simms version is superb, probably my favorite, they don't make them like that anymore.

Now speaking of ghosts, they have nothing like the old British ghost stories on TV here, probably something to do with the frightfully dull Puritanical foundations the nation had, a rather dull and - well - puritanical lot.

The master of the genre is - arguably - the well known M.R. James and few things remind me more of Christmas than sitting cozily near a coal fire with a nice whiskey or Bailey's ! and the wind and snow blowing outside, in a world where pubs and clubs closed by 11pm and watching this kind of thing with the faint tick of a grandfather clock in the hallway

 

[toobfreak]

Exactly what I thought....Very possibly a satellite burning up on reentry.
Saw what looks like a rotating beacon in there too....Could be a chase aircraft in there among the debris.

Well, another factor I've considered is the fact that Chelyabinsk was about 11-12 years ago. That was the largest known, recorded space impactor since Tunguska over a century ago (which was even bigger). The larger the object, the less frequent the statistical likelihood of being hit. I think Chelyabinsk was estimated around 60 feet or so, and it blew out windows and did a lot of damage from the concussion.

It seems unlikely another similar object would hit us against in just 12 years! And I heard no sonic concussion in the video. Taking these and the other stated factors into consideration, I feel certain now that this was a falling piece of orbital man-made garbage, probably from a foreign country like China which gradually reentered the atmosphere.