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?

I used to dread Sunday evenings. School the next day! I remember watching the holiday programme with Cliff Michelmore.

Watching Ski Sunday (still love the opening music, so exciting, even though I have never been skiing and have no desire to go)
Songs of Praise (I have always loved singing, religious music too)
Antiques Road show (boring as a child, but I quite like it now)
Sunday evening drama, e.g. Poldark with Robin Ellis, or The Brothers
Sunday teatime was the only meal we were sometimes allowed to eat in front of the tv: sardines on toast, sandwiches, cakes

As a teen, up in my room listening to the top 30/40 recording all my favourite tracks. Trying to cut off the D.J.s interruptions at the end of each song. I wasn't all that up to date with the charts which I think came out on a Tuesday, so if I had missed Top of the Pops on Thursday,I would be hearing the chart countdown on Sunday for the first time. So exciting to find out what was number one!

@Lifeisconfusing it’s funny how it takes so little to bring you right back!

I had the sunday bath too and now I think about it was often allowed a bag of penny sweets to eat all to myself as a Sunday treat.

I can’t remember what else we watched regularly but I know we watched the darling buds of may or else I think maybe mastermind?!

@babypeach I loved and still love keeping up appearances I know I sound odd but If I have a bad day I pop it on and I feel safe again like a child ha ha I’m crazy I know.

Heartbeat.

Feeling dread of school the next day.

My mum use to spend most of the day Sunday ironing all the uniforms for school

@Lifeisconfusing Keeping Up Appearances is ace! It's a classic!

I mostly remember my dad driving us back home from his house after dinner (which was something like Linda McCartney deep country pies and veg) and when we got in my mum would be doing the ironing. Then Sunday evening TV, read and bed.

Just watched the opening credits of The World About Us on you tube. That musics and those brainiacs took me right back to my childhood watching it on Sunday evenings during the 70s. Could picture things I have though about since.
Never knew it was Attenborough. What a man.

Graphics not ‘brainiacs’

@purpleme12 love it that much that we drive past the house couple of years ago on the way back home from a trip somewhere

I grew up in 1980s Ireland so this signalled the end of the weekend and the dread of a new school week.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=DkN2dpLp5oc

Ah, so many (bad) memories....

When I was a young child, Sunday tea was a depressing experience. Fish paste and dripping sandwiches. Radio 1 and Radio 2 used to merge and it was Sing Something Simple with Cliff Adams and the Adams Singers. Frightful!!

When I was a bit older it was mad taping of the Top 40. If I hear certain songs I always sing the start of the one I taped next, as they were fused together for ever in my brain. I managed to tape Tony Blackburn saying, “And that’s one of the heavier sounds in the charts...” it was Adam and the Ants !! (Admittedly singing Dog Eat Dog rather than Prince Charming, but still...)

I’m grinning like a loon at the tv shows. Ski Sunday (always brings the soundtrack in my head), antiques roadshow, songs of praise, last of the summer wine, Howard’s way.
Can’t remember food wise but as I got older I was often busy all day and had missed the roast as it was dished up, so it was most unsatisfactory reheated with congealed gravy and the roasted potatoes had gone soft and disappointing.
The smell of reheated congealed gravy is um... evocative.

Oh, Howard’s way! We loved that!!

I recently bought the dvd of the BBC teatime Nicholas Nickleby with Nigel Havers as I had enjoyed it so much. God, it was dull. So stagey. The dcs were not impressed. I think I am remembering old tv shows with super rose-tinted glasses.

Actually dh and I watched a bit of Robin the Hooded Man in bed the other day (gosh, we’re go-ers) and we quite enjoyed it! Great mullet of Michael Praed!

Keeping Up Appearances is ace! It's a classic!

I think I've read somewhere it's the BBC's most sold programme overseas. People must think it's the real Britain

I was thinking about this thread, I'm visiting my parents this weekend and the whole house smells like Roast and overcooked vegetables

So boring and predictable. A poster on another thread described the current Covid boredom as a never ending Sunday and I know exactly how they feel.

Sunday lunch, bath time, mum ironing the uniforms, last minute homework. Nothing decent on the telly, nowhere to go and school in the morning.

The poirot theme tune takes me right back!

Pretty similar to now.

Some sort of roast for tea followed by a stodgy pudding then watching the antiques roadshow.

In the bath and reading for an hour or so before bed. 😂😂😂

My nana would make a huge salad with lots of boiled eggs in it and bread and butter.
TBH there’d only been a few hours since the big lunch.

Then we’d go to church.
On the way home, my dad would let me buy a packet of crisps.

Basically we ate all day.

It involved eating something with custard and watching The Wonder Years or The Simpsons.

For some reason i can only remember Sunday evenings in winter time!

We would ALWAYS have a full roast dinner on a sunday followed by dad watching football in the afternoon hollering from the chair every now and again and mum rolling her eyes and knitting or reading or sleeping while i played with my toys upstairs. Didn't have any toys downstairs ... only just realised.

Evening time - boiled eggs or sandwiches or beans on toast with Antiques Road Show, Last Of the Summer Wine, Dad's Army ect. Or 'Allo 'Allo? Or was that more .90s? Dunno.
I know it was all incredibly even for a kid and as soon as i was old enough to leave it and go off wandering round the district with my mate even in the pissing rain - i did.

I remember hanging it out and keeping still in the chair in the vain hope they'd forget to send me to bed. Bloody school in the morning.

Just reading thread now
The Songs of Praise theme tune was the death knell for the weekend for me.

Yes! Songs of bloody praise! DM must have put it on as punishment for my dad's foot ball watching earlier on. None of us was religious

For some reason i can only remember Sunday evenings in winter time!

Me too!

Wasn’t All Creatures Great and Small on Sunday evenings? We also always used to watch Heartbeat and the only time I’ve ever seen my Dad cry at the tv is when Nick’s wife died (Kate?).

I used to love the theme tune to Lovejoy!

Teenager of the 80s here.
Sundays were deadly dull and like some pp, I don’t really enjoy them now.
No shops open, roast for lunch, then packed off to Sunday School which I hated and finally rebelled at 16 and refused to go again.
My nan came for tea which would usually be tinned salmon sandwiches, with Bullseye on the TV. I hated that programme. Finishing off homework and the thought of a week at school looming ahead.
Sometimes on a Sunday evening in the summer we’d go for what DF and DM called a little run, which meant a drive in the country and sometimes a quick stop in a pub beer garden.
Like every other British teenager, taping the top 40 on Radio One from 5-7 was a must.