WTF was that??

[wannabebetter]

A transparent 'blob' about 2" square on my doorstep with a damp patch round it (looks like something was melting) but been there 2 days and finally I plucked up the courage to pick it up (with 2 layers of kitchen roll) & put in bin. Felt like a lump of jelly!! We thought maybe an incredibly long phlegm (we're at least 15 feet from the road) but my DS just suggested could be a slug nest!!! That is my worst nightmare - please tell me it couldn't be!..... could it??

Aliens?

We need a pic, obviously

Jelly fish. Does high tide reach your doorstep?

Santa emptied his sack early? Sorry

Ectoplasm? Maybe the ghost of Christmas yet to come came?

Slug that the postman tried on.

Or obviously an alien.

well if you didn't get a pic....we can only assume it's The Blob from that 50s horror film or whenever it was.

Ooooh I read once about jelly falling from the sky!

On further googling it appears this is what I was reading about - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_jelly

Does that ring a bell?!

Thanks everyone - I really should have remembered 'pic or I'd didn't happen' but am def not going thru my bin to retrieve said globule!! I'm going with early Santa deposit rather than ectoplasm (so I can sleep easy!!) at least nobody's going with the slug nest thing!! (DS is not most reliable with facts, once told me her local beach was overrun with 30 foot jellyfish )

It not I'd (damn autocucumber)

That's what it was! An autocucumber. Well naked, without the tell tale green skin.

Kids' slime? The stuff's disgusting but kids round here are still obsessed.

Could be undigested entrails a cat has sicked up.

It was very regular shaped though, like a large ice cube but solid jelly & transparent - didn't squish when I picked it up....

Had it recently rained? It’s probably a water retaining gel pod from a plant or soil or something similar. Tiny when dry but designed to swell and retain water when wet.

A Master Cheffed autocucumber then.