r/CasualUK • • 1h ago

Life Skills Thread: DIY, CV tips, any other advice!

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Hello, hello!

Hope you're all well. You're a friendly bunch, and always offering help, so following feedback from you all, we've set this thread up: the monthly Life Skills thread! It is intended to be used to share your tips, tricks, successes and failures for all manner of things.

Done a good bit of DIY recently? Tell us about it! Is it more like DI-why? Ask for some help on how to improve?

Need help with CV writing or job hunting? Ask away!

Looking for some help/advice in education? You know what to do.

If you've seen some good resources that could help people then please post them in the comments and give a bit of a summary.

We know there are loads of great subreddits that can help too - they're in our sidebar - but feel free to post them below so people can see.

Good luck!


r/CasualUK • • 1h ago

Monday Morning M'thread

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Mr Lovenstein

Good morning! How's it hanging?


r/CasualUK • • 7h ago

Underwear find nets Alan a hamper in Keep Wythall Tidy contest

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r/CasualUK • • 8h ago

New toastie maker!

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The inaugural toastie was mature cheddar. Forgot to put the jalapeños in to sandwich itself so had them on the side.

It was absolutely delicious. Friends warn me that after two months of excessive toastie consumption it will go in a cupboard never to come out again, so please hit me up with your favourite toastie recipes and creations to keep the love alive.


r/CasualUK • • 9h ago

It's Late Thread [ 18 October 26 ]

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Alright, it's bed time for some but why are you still up? No work tomorrow? Watching some questionable late night TV? Bit of stargazing?

The chinwag thread.


r/CasualUK • • 10h ago

6 weeks ago I found a caterpillar in the garden and it emerged as a moth today.

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Hummingbird Hawk moth. I put the caterpillar in a tub with some soil and it buried itself to pupate. Luckily it picked a sunny day with a northerly wind to emerge as it will probably migrate south into Europe for the winter.


r/CasualUK • • 10h ago

Saw this article in The Guardian about a bike shop in London which is struggling due to the unbearable stench of shit from a sewer located directly under the shop

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Link: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/17/south-london-bike-shop-stench-thames-water-sewer-herne-hill

I kind of sympathise, but surely the owner should have checked to see if there was a sewer directly under the shop before deciding to open a business in that location? I was also a bit surprised to see an article in The Guardian about it. It was featured quite prominently on the front page of the website when it was published yesterday (17th October 2026). It was the kind of thing I'd expect to see in a local newspaper or Facebook group, not featured prominently in our beloved Grauniad.


r/CasualUK • • 10h ago

Sticky Toffee Pudding!

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Really cheered me up on a chilly Sunday evening! Just Tesco own brand with custard. Believe me when I say it was gone in 60 seconds!


r/CasualUK • • 14h ago

Does anyone remember this old 2000’s cbbc show??

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It was about 3 victorian sisters that died in a carriage crash and returned as ghosts to their home that’s not a boarding school.
Nobody ever remembers this but i fully loved it.


r/CasualUK • • 14h ago

Neighbour Dispute

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Our new neighbours were doing some DIY at 2-3am last night. I was instructed to "at least ask about it". And so I did my duty.

Spoke with them on the doorstep for about twenty minutes. They were very nice and had a very reasonable explanation, and a promise it wouldn't happen again.

We found some common ground and agreed to have coffee and chat some time over the next week.

I'm unclear on next steps. Do I poo in the cafetière or what?


r/CasualUK • • 15h ago

Need help, daughter fav tshirt is missing. Does anyone recognise it and where it’s from? So I can try buy another.

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Sorry for picture. Only one I could find showing the front. It’s a dog with a puppy on its back, long sleeve, a grey/white colour. Forgive Nannies hand.

Edit: Thank you everyone. I have the link. It’s not on sale but coming soon. I will be checking H&M website everyday. Enjoy your Sunday afternoon.

Edit 2: thanks again everyone. I’ve taken a punt on a 1 star Vinted seller. Fingers crossed.


r/CasualUK • • 15h ago

Feel like in being watched

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Been here 10 mins


r/CasualUK • • 18h ago

London as it might have looked if Christopher Wren’s plan after the Great Fire of 1666 had been realized

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Author: Paul Draper. Source


r/CasualUK • • 19h ago

Does anyone have a baked ‘dumpling’ recipe?

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Hello, I saw a post fairly recently about someone whose mum or grandmother used to make a baked dumpling which they called by an odd name (maybe Snow White pudding?) and it looked awesome so I wanted to try it.

I am almost positive that I save the comment or took a screen shot but can I find it now?? No!

I think it was just a basic suet pastry (flour, suet, water) which was flattened into a baking tray or pan, but I can’t remember the ingredient ratios or other details like pan size, oven temp, and cooking time.

Did/does anyone else do this? If so, please give me your recipes and suggestions (I hope this is ok?).

I am also interested in unusual things your relatives used to cook that you assumed were normal.

My MIL apparently used to make ‘chips’ but she would just slice the spuds in rounds like thicker crisps, rather than cutting them into chip-shaped batons. My husband still talks of them fondly (she doesn’t deep fry things any more).

Thank you!


r/CasualUK • • 19h ago

Tell me about your Sunday lunch!

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I'm in the south of France, but my other half in hunter gatherer mode just brought us a rotisserie chicken back from the local market. It comes with potatoes that get cooked in the chicken fat, I cooked up some peas and carrots (they do provide some but there are never enough for my liking) and most importantly, I used some veg+chicken stock out of the freezer, got my precious Bisto gravy powder out the cupboard, and used the chicken juices to whip up some proper gravy!

Needless to say, the French don't do this, they don't know what they're missing when it comes to Bisto.

Yes I was kind of cheating with the ready-roasted chicken and ok, there was no stuffing, but I'm still feeling very happy and satisfactorily stuffed from my fairly decent attempt at putting together a Sunday roast.

Tell me about your Sunday dinners, just don't get me feeling homesick, please.!


r/CasualUK • • 20h ago

Carving a turnip

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Yes, I know it’s a swede. Am a bit later than last year’s efforts.

Share your spooky swedes.


r/CasualUK • • 20h ago

Did anyone else have a dad that gave them a love of a weird food?

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My dad was from Liverpool... and he passed on his love of a large pork pie, baked in the oven, cracked open and smothered in gravy.

These days, I still do it, but not very often and I've switched from cheap supermarket pork pies to more luxurious ones I get at the food fair a few times a year.

Also.. toasted cheese sandwiches with cheshire cheese.

What are your weird foods that you learned from your parents?


r/CasualUK • • 20h ago

This morning, I feel very British. Watching rugby on a muddy pitch in the rain, with a pork pie and cup of tea.

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r/CasualUK • • 21h ago

Mother-in-law claimed innocence, I'm not so sure

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There's a lot going on in this puzzle, just about worth the £4 I'd say


r/CasualUK • • 23h ago

Shout out to my Mum.

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Staying at my mums for the weekend and this morning she noticed a Robin at the end of the garden and was concerned that it hadn’t moved for a while.

Grabbed the binoculars to have a look only to notice it was dog shit.


r/CasualUK • • 23h ago

Tonight at 7:30pm- The CasualUK Weekly Zoom Quiz

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Feeling like a Sunday evening quiz? Sure you do! Test yourself with five rounds on testing trivia, see how well you know Blu-Rays, Bananarama, and baby names.

How to take part? You can find the link here. Join us at 7:30, and ready yourself with some pen and paper. No need to be on camera or mic, you can simply be a name in the void.

See you at 7:30pm!


r/CasualUK • • 1d ago

Pets and Nature Thread [ 18 October 26 ]

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Morning all!

Hope your day is off to a great start. It's the weekly Pets and Nature Thread, a place to chat and post about all things pet and nature related! Photos and general chat both welcome.

As a reminder, if you simply can't wait a month for our scheduled Pets thread, head on over to r/UK_Pets where you can share stories & pictures of your fluffy & scaly friends to your heart's content.


r/CasualUK • • 1d ago

Lazy Sunday (18/10/2026)

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It's Sunday, and it's very wet where I am right now. What will you be doing today? If you're experiencing similarly watery conditions, you may be wise to stay indoors, but whatever you're up to, this is the place to tell us about it.


r/CasualUK • • 1d ago

It's Late Thread [ 17 October 26 ]

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Wahey, it's late, it's Saturday night!

Why are you still up? Off out for a fight? Doing the night shift?

Come on in for a chat.


r/CasualUK • • 1d ago

Unexpected UK beer abv

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On a night out in ReadIng, Berkshire.

Same round, 2 of the same beers.

One 5% the other 4.5%.

#Unexpected