How were the Sunday evenings of your youth?

[Mrsemcgregor]

Mine consisted of a bath and hair wash, nightie and slippers on in front of the gas fire, a “Sunday tea” which consisted of chopped apple, cheese and bread and butter triangles. Usually eaten while watching a BBC family drama such as The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, or The Borrowers. Possibly a bit of Antiques Roadshow (which I found a bit boring).

In my teen years I would be upstairs trying to record my favourite songs from the Pepsi Max top 40 with Dr Fox.

What about you?

[IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere]

Sunday was church - three times. Interspersed with stressful meals - roast dinner, big tea (always with jelly), supper after church. Mum loved to have a houseful of people so there were usually visitors for at least one meal. I had to do my homework on Saturday. I wasn't allowed to do anything creative on a Sunday - no knitting. No going out with friends. Although my overwhelming memories of Sundays are that it was tedious I had a lot of friends in church so it wasn't as bad as it might sound. It's not something I would want for my kids though.

[fairydustandpixies]

Mine too, OP! But with buttered crumpets and tinned fruit with carnation cream for afters!

[Devlesko]

Sunday roast, taping top 40. Maybe watch some tv, but definitely bath night.
It's always been my favourite day because as I've grown the day has changed so much.

[Spinachfinger]

I think I remember watching You've Been Framed with Jeremy Beadle on sundays. But it could have been Saturday, I can't remember

[travelmad]

@AnneElliott

Sundays for part of the year we're gang show rehearsals. The rest of the year it was a long boring day as nothing was open and there wasn't anything to do.

Yes! Sunday afternoons throughout my teenage years were Gang Show rehearsals :)

[killerofmen]

This thread has brought back memories of good times. We always went to my grandparents' house on Sundays. I want to share some of the food we used to eat.

Beef Dinner covered in HP sauce (Amazing)
Spam & Branston pickle sandwiches (Made even better with the invention of small chunk pickle)
Tomato sandwiches (When tomatoes actually tasted of something)
Homemade Apple tart (delicious)
Homemade rhubarb tart made with homegrown rhubarb (Even better)
My nan's chips (if we were very lucky as these were seriously a god-tier foodstuff)

[FlamingoAndJohn]

@DeeDimer

I was a weekly boarder. Sunday afternoons filled me with such dread. Dinner, bath then into the awful school uniform, pack and be taken to school. I hated it. My parents never seemed to want to hear how much I really did.
I so remember that 'Sunday evening' feeling .

As a weekly boarder did you go back to school Sunday night or Monday morning?

[Mrsemcgregor]

@CherryCocktails

I recall for a while the Darling Buds of May being on tv along with Lovejoy, Howard's way and You rang me lord... all good programs, especially darling buds!

Darling Buds of May!! Thank you for that memory, I loved that programme! Pure escapism, I used to fantasise about being Catherine Zeta Jones’ character and living in that lovely house.

It’s fascinating that so many of us had very similar routines and experiences. I guess the options were less then, only 3/4 tv channels meant everyone watched the same thing. Nothing was open on sundays so we all pottered around the house. I don’t think people will have such shared memories again, it’s a shame really.

[MarthasGinYard]

Bath

Sat in front of fire with my Pierrot dressing gown on.

Watching Howard's Way

Eating a salad of cucumber and onion in vinegar and cold meat sandwiches with a sponge 'flan' for pudding or a Birds trifle.

Then

That's Life and Heart to Heart.

"When they met....it was Murder"

[FlamingoAndJohn]

I watched Antiques Roadshow tonight and it was all I could do to stop myself having a bath.
I do often still have a bath on a Sunday night.

[ceilihouse]

Fire lighting in the sitting room watching where in the world and then glenroe!

Mammy would make pots of tea from the kettle on the aga, 6 school uniforms hanging off the backs of the kitchen chairs,

We had a great irish childhood and still do the same with my boys now

[jessstan2]

I'm older than the op. I remember radio programmes on Sunday nights before we put the television on. Thoroughly enjoyed them.

[SerenityNowwwww]

There was always a good tv show on Sunday evenings.

[GinWithASplashOfTonic]

@Spinachfinger

I think I remember watching You've Been Framed with Jeremy Beadle on sundays. But it could have been Saturday, I can't remember

I think Jeremy Beadle was Saturdays. After Gladiator but before Blind Date.

Never watched it as that was bath time, and mum watched it whilst I was in the bath

[Spinachfinger]

Thanks Gin, you're probably right. Oooh Saturday night tv, now THAT was compulsory viewing

[SinisterBumFacedCat]

Compulsory visit to my grandparents EVERY Sunday. On the one occasion I asked if we absolutely had to go my DM hit me with the “they will die one day soon and you’ll regret it” speech. Not that they weren’t lovely, just EVERY SUNDAY! Anyway sometimes we’d eat a roast. I’d go up to see my Uncles because they listened to the Top Twenty and I’d jump on their beds while my favourite songs played and wave through the window at the people on the double decker bus that stopped outside the house. When we left my Nan would fill my pockets with sweets. TV was usually Ski Sunday. Go to bed with a feeling of dread about school.

[WeevilKnievel]

Much the same with the feeling of complete boredom but remember watching 'Jesus of Nazareth' or Thornbirds on the tv whilst my hair was drying in a big shower cap thing that had hot air being pumped down a tube Then later lying in bed awake for hours listening to the South Bank show theme tune and having a little cry at the prospect of school the next day.

[tobee]

Having had roast for Sunday lunch, my mum would usually bring in selection of sandwiches and little cakes or choccie biscuits on the trolley and we'd watch All Creatures Great and Small. We start eating our plate of food as James Herriot put his arm up a cow usually.

Sometimes in the autumn I'd be in the back garden poking the bonfire.

I quite liked school. It wasn't until I was working that I dreaded Monday morning and nothing to do on Sunday evening coz not much was open and pubs were only open for short hours.

[babypeach]

I loved and dreaded Sunday in equal measure. It was the one day of the week my dad didn’t work so it was precious. We spent all day together and my mum would get cook an amazing breakfast and roast dinner.

We didn’t do much I guess but I have so many warm memories of us all listening to music or watching something together, my parents reading the enormous Sunday paper and eating lovely food.

But I dreaded it because school was an absolute misery for me and like many pp the sound of antiques roadshow and smell of roast still makes my stomach sink!

[Lifeisconfusing]

Op
You must be about 35 same as me as I had the same Sunday evening. When I Hurd the London’s burning theme tune I knew I def had to go to bed.
I had the Sunday blues for school the next day.

When I was a teen I recorded the top 40 and listened to it every night in bed on my Walkman it was funny when we used to know the tape of by heart and had to put up with the voices when we didn’t stop or start it on time. Kids today won’t understand that 🤣

[Lifeisconfusing]

@babypeach wow I could have wrote that.

The small of Sunday lunch and hearing Sunday football on the radio or Michael shoemacker (wrong spelling) 🤣 On tv also brings back memories

[caringcarer]

A sandwich, trifle, then allowed to eat packet of crisps my Auntie brought for us. I remember watching Anne of Green Gables. Bath, hair wash and packing PE kit. Always an early night as school in morning.

[Lifeisconfusing]

@Spinachfinger I love this thread too, is it just me or does anyone else think that it was always better years ago!! I used to think that showing my children old shows and taking them places I visited would give them a great childhood but it occurred to me that all the new things are there childhood memories so I don’t have to dig out the game boy from the loft to show them what an awesome childhood looks like. 🤣🤣

[Mrsemcgregor]

@Lifeisconfusing I’m 39, not far off!

I try to create a consistent Sunday evening for my children. A roast dinner (or similar) at about 4pm then baths at 5-6pm and through to the lounge for some TV, it’s the one night I insist on “live tv” rather than Netflix or YouTube etc. In the winter we have Ski Sunday, they love that. At the moment we’ve been lucky with BBC1 playing a film. It gets us watching things we wouldn’t necessarily choose, which I think is good sometimes in these times of instantly being able to watch pretty much whatever you want.

[Crystal87]

Hearing the Last of the Summer Wine theme tune floating from downstairs and getting that awful feeling that the weekend was over.