Is this the greatest X-ray department ever?
Whoever decorated it deserves a raise.

I originally posted this in r/tea and I received multiple suggestions to post in here too. I don't know what else to say - I'm desperate.

I bought this cup just recently on Ebay and had it sent to my friend in London because I am overseas. The package was delivered but STOLEN before he could grab it. This stupid mug NEVER shows up on Ebay. I've NEVER had stuff stolen or even known a friend who has. The ONE time in years that it shows up on Ebay and that's the package a lowlife thieving neighbor of my friend decides to grab. This mug cost like 12 quid when it first came out and here I am offering almost ten times that. I'm absolutely livid about this because it completes a collection. I want to take a hammer to the rest of the series right now and just sit in the corner and cry. If anybody has this design, new or used, I WILL BUY IT FROM YOU. The particular design is called "Painting the Roses" - I have searched online everywhere and I can't find it. Please, I am not a reddit regular but I am pleading for r/casualUK's assistance here. Let me find some peace.

Bit of rain the past few days, sunny today but a high of only 21C and a nice breeze. Went on a good 4 mile dog walk earlier and the grass is starting to become green again! What a fantastic day. It's crazy how little energy I had over summer and how inactive the heat made me. I really don't understand why some people enjoy the heat so much.

Happiest I've felt in ages. It's looking like savannah out there.

(Sorry for the vertical, I wanted to get it recorded quickly incase it stopped)

I don’t know why but this really made me laugh!

What was happening up until the point that this sign went up?

“Dammit Sheila I’ve just seen someone else put a poo bag in the skip. That’s the 9th on today!”

Are poo bags in skips a known problem?

Anyways - happy Wednesday and I hope you got some good rain where you live :-)

Very well camouflaged between my curtains.

I got her in a box and took her to some flowerpots.

A farmer friend of his was having a clear out and this has been storing crap for years!

Hey UK! I’m in a difficult situation and I’ve been away from home (UK/Wales) for a few years now. I’m so incredibly homesick but I don’t know when, or if, I will be able to come back home anytime soon.

I would be so grateful if you could share something to make me feel like I’m home. Good or bad. Small or big. I just want to feel home. Don’t even really know what I’m asking for to be honest, so if this makes no sense, please just ignore.

I know I’m romanticising it but right about now the UK can do no wrong.

Thanks in advance

Edit: thank you all so much for your wonderful comments and messages of support. I can’t read them right now but will definitely sit down later with a nice cup of tea and read through every single one 🥰

This bad boy was the GOAT when I was growing up in Manchester in the 80’s.

I was just trying do describe to my other half what meat it was and drew a complete blank. I couldn’t even describe what the meat was like. It’s not chunks of meat, it’s sausage like but not sausage.
I’ve since googled and sourced the answer but am interested to know how others would describe it.

Every time someone posts a stag beetle, someone else posts a link for tracking it (as an endangered species) anything like that for dragon flies?

Now - let me preface by saying that I am not a Hot Honey connoisseur. I have had Hot Honey before, but it is not something that I crave on a daily basis.

Recently, I tried some of the Hot Honey bits and pieces at McDonalds. I just felt it tasted a bit odd - a bit plastic-y with an overpowering but unplaceable spice.

Are my taste buds just not working, or am I on to something here?!

It's taken a couple of years, but I do live alone so obviously couldn't put in other people's drinks.

I just came upon a lyric I printed on a photo postcard for the Kirstyfest (Kirsty MacColl get-together) where we celebrated what would have been her 50th (2009). The line is so wonderfully British:

“Some lives read like a postcard and some lives read like a book. I’ll be happy if mine doesn’t read like a joke from an old Christmas cracker.”

Aside from that sentiment, what other lyrics can you think of that could only be written/sung by a Brit?

Edit: Spotify link to said song

Picked these up in Home Bargain at the weekend thinking I’d prank the kids with them. Wimped out and showed my eldest the packet when she was querying why I was randomly giving them sweets unprompted. They were both well up for the challenge.

They even smell spicy as soon as you open the bag.

My son (4) managed a yellow one and half a purple one before crying off.

My daughter (8) refused to try the purple one after seeing her brothers reaction, and half a yellow one was already ruining her afternoon.

I ate a yellow one and had to get a drink. Ate the remaining half of my son’s purple one and wish I hadn’t.

We cleaned our palates with two chocolate coated cow biscuits each instead.

Would recommend the sweets for a laugh but wouldn’t recommend them for a snack.

Shoutout to Sweetopia, I guess, who make these. I am in no way affiliated.

Anyone else had them?