It's Sunday. Remember when they were different?

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The über protestant away over the cattle grid in the Highlands is taking zero chances not being able to worship on a Sunday with the snow by making the minister stay overnight.

Remember when Sunday was absolutely different from Saturday? Saturday was Happy Days on the telly! And experimental food like melon or pizza.

Sunday there were no shops open and I'd see all my pals out playing on the way to Mass and they'd all be in on the way back. I did a lot of reading iirc.

We would go and see my grandparents. See to the horses. Roast dinner. Dad got drunk. Nothing on TV.

I still have the urge to have a bath on a Sunday night.

God, I agree with loads of these! Takes me back.

I can remember being allowed to 'stay up' to watch the Muppet Show as long as I had a bath and put my pyjamas on first.

There was a nice middle bit to Sunday’s. Once mass was out of the way but before homework/ top 40 time. Amazing roasts, Dad pissed asleep on the sofa snoring like an engine. Walks outside with family. Cheese toastie in front of monarch of the glen.

Ha. Agree fully. I thought it was never going to end. The older women in the house weren't even allowed to do their knitting 😂. After lunch the men would go and watch footy in back room.. tea was always that dreary salad. Ham, bit of lettuce, a tomato, half a boiled egg, pickled beetroot and some other ghastly pickled muck.

Oh and 'Songs of Praise'..... 😇

I'm from Belfast!

Terrahawks and Space 1999. Lying on a blanket in summer in the garden listening to the top 40, playing with Sindy dolls then panicking when I realised I’d forgotten to do my homework.

Roast dinner, then some really dull film on tv like Dr Zhivago or The Guns of Navarone with all the adults who insisted on watching it snoring their heads off. Top forty countdown five to seven then bath and Family Fortunes and Hart to Hart.
That’s Life at nine and that sickening back to school tomorrow feeling. Finally the Southbank Show theme playing signalled it was way to late to get your homework done.

Tg for Internet!! Sunday saviour.

Ham, bit of lettuce, a tomato, half a boiled egg, pickled beetroot and some other ghastly pickled muck.

I'm not from NI but that is HORRIBLY familiar

Sundays were great as a child but dismal as a teenager. Yes, church/Sunday School and Songs of Praise featured but when I was younger it also meant Sunday lunch or tea at grandparents with cousins, or if we were just at home it was an Ordinary Tea in front of the coal fire (sadly with Songs of Praise). Ordinary Tea was Cheshire cheese, crackers, bread and butter, leftover meat and sliced picked onions. Sometimes with crisps. It was the best tea of the week.
Wasn't the Muppet Show on Sundays? I loved that, and so did one of my grandmas which was lucky as without her say-so I probably wouldn't have got to watch it.
Teenage Sundays were just shit.

We spent every Sunday at my Grandparents. We used to pour over every section on the TV magazine that came with the paper- reading the little twonline summaries of each film or show.
We’d have a full English in the morning and a roast at lunch time then get the bus home. Mum would make salmon sandwiches and we’d watch antiques road show or heartbeat ( Can’t recall what time either show was on)
One year we had games on Monday and packing an outdoor PE kit seemed like the most Herculean task! For years later I was still grateful I didn’t have to do it!

Oh, I forgot the most exciting things that happened.

Ski Sunday and Showjumping seasons.

Songs of Praise
Bullseye
Love joy

I don't know. I probably complained at the time but I remember them fondly.

We kids used to get up and make breakfast for everyone before church, then mum would do dinner and we'd have real conversations round the table then we'd go to the park or watch a film or sport altogether round one telly! We were never loeed to make plans with friends because Sundays were for family. It might have been dull at the time but I think the security and the feeling of being wanted that it created has a lot to do with the person I am now.

Back when there were 4 channels and one of them used to have Jason and the argonauts on every Sunday

FOUR channels? FOUR!! You were spoiled

I agree iklboo - there were only 3 channels, although as BBC2 showed pages from ceefax for large chunks of the day it was more like 2 channels most of the time.

Ceefax or the bloody scary test card with the psycho schoolgirl and the clown .

Were cinemas open on Sundays in the 70s?

Black and white war films on telly
Visiting elderly relatives, feeling sick in the back of the car on the way there and all the adults smoking
Vienetta after the roast if you were very lucky
Homework
Antiques Roadshow, to this day the theme tune makes me feel miserable and sundayish
The football results going on for hours
Bath and hair wash

Cinemas open on a Sunday?

I don't think so, or my brother would have been at the, as he went nearly every Saturday as it was.

Not that there was a bus service on Sundays, though - he'd have had to walk several miles to do it if they were.

Weekly bath. Cold beef sandwiches. Colditz on the telly.
I also remember not being allowed to watch 'Thats Life' and being really upset as I listened to everyone else laughing away downstairs.
NB: some of that may be Saturday TV - brain is aged.

My parents tended to leave radio 2 on all the time, of course Sunday afternoon was the tedious, will-to-live sucking, Sing Something Simple. Made Antiques Roadshow look like Fun House.

I quite enjoyed ski sunday.

Sometimes during the school holidays, when my friends were away on an actual real holiday, and my dad was at work so we couldn't go out in the car, and it was raining so we couldn't go out and play, I used to think of it as a "Sunday day".

But there was no roast dinner with home made gravy, and no Howard's Way on tv so it was worse than a real sunday.

Ski Sunday, Sale of the Century, Bullseye and tea on the tea trolley as a treat! Also bath and hair wash night. Fond memories.