It’s a Sunday in 1989, what are you doing?

[Moaningturtle1]

I would have spent the morning playing out probably on my roller skates. I’d be able to smell roast dinners cooking from all the houses on the street.

Then to my nan and grandads for a roast, played with my cousins and had Sunday tea (cake, crisps, trifle, nothing savoury in sight!).

Home to watch something like The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I would then have my only bath and hair wash of the week and mum would brush and dry my hair in front of the fire watching Antiques Roadshow.

I was in my late teens, so having a massive snooze after eating my mum’s delicious roast dinner. Then panicking about not having anything clean to wear for work tomorrow.

It's my (for then) fibal term in the junior boarding house at my lovely hippy independent school. I'm sleeping in the 6 room. We have lots of smash hits posters and junk we bought in chazzas.

If it was hot enough we would have been let in the antique concrete outdoor pool on campus which was freezing but great fun. Otherwise we would have been playing out in the grounds with other neighbouring boarding houses.

I would have played with Kate whose mum was once married to a film star and Zoe who I still speak to.

I was nearly 10 and this was an amazing and happy time for me.

I would have been wearing something luminous from Tammy girl and converse.

Me too!!!

I would have been at a rehearsal for a show, singing, dancing & flirting a lot! Laughing with the 'older members' who were trying to keep up with us younger ones repeating routines endlessly to perfect them! We were all very close & they had skills we didn't have too, no malice in it at all.

I had NO idea why they found it so hard to learn the moves, do the moves & keep up!

NOW I can't believe how well they used to do!! 🤣🙄

Then checking how our savings were going for our flights to the U.K. via (3 week holiday) LAX.(on track). Partner & I were SO excited to be coming back & especially seeing all the shows in London!!

ahhh good times!!

Some of these are lovely x
I was 8 so Sunday school then home, probably to my Nan's for a roast dinner. Then home to the sound of my brother having a tantrum about going to a shop but no shops were open.
Probably reading or playing in the afternoon while some form of sport on the telly, dad may have being doing stuff in the garage, mum doing the washing. Then bath, nails cutting and ears cleaning before bed!

Upstairs in my room at the hotel I worked at... Waiting for 7pm and reopening the bar for the evening shift!

I'd have been 15 and at boarding school. So chapel in the morning, roast for lunch and probably revising for my exams in the afternoon.

Gestating for another 3 weeks.

Probably laying in my bed day dreaming about a boy who would eventually becom my first love and the “one that got away”

Getting ready to take my GCSE exams,whilst working in the hairdresser's as a junior. Listening to the chart show on a Sunday night.

I was 1 in 89, so probably causing mayhem and soiling myself..

no different 30 odd years later 😂

Nursing a hangover after being out Thursday - Saturday night and realising I am out again Sunday night

Church in the morning, help mum with dinner, then was up. Lounge on the sofa for a bit and go do my homework. Every other week we’d see a family friend for a few hours where we’d eat and chat with Bullseye on in the background.

May 1989: Church in the morning (reluctantly), the day at the stables, a roast in the evening followed by my mum watching Songs of Praise and Antiques Roadshow and feeling queasy at the sound of the music as it meant school next day. Recording the charts and doing last minute prep.

Church in the morning, visiting relatives, then home for roast dinner and pudding with custard. My nan would have been brought round by now to watch Sunday TV with us before buffet tea of sandwiches, crisps, pork pie, trifle. After tea nan would be taken home and later I'd watch Howard's Way before bed.

I've actually got out a diary from 1989 to have a look. I am in my exams and preparing for them but I often write down fascinating insights like it's Bonos birthday or I'm looking forward to Ghostbusters 2 coming out. I am planning a killer look for the end of school prom. Sadly no detail of my days on a typical Sunday. Looks like I spent a lot of time wishing and hoping!

In the morning, leisurely morning tea in the conservatory we had then, listening to the birds with the double doors wide open. DC in their teens would make their own breakfasts and probably for DH and me, too.
Possibly some housework and laundry, with all four of us doing jobs, with varying degrees of cheerfulness.
Then making a roast dinner for the family, making sure DC2 had a laundered school uniform. DC 1 was doing A levels, so just wore what he liked and took care of his own laundry.
In the afternoon, maybe dog walking with DH, if I felt like it, or didn't have a report to write. Generally, hundreds of monosyllabic youth tramping up and down stairs, or one of us ferrying them about somewhere, skateboarding for one, hockey for the other.
In the evening, watching TV. (I can't remember when Twin Peaks was first shown, but it it was about the only TV programme that we all avidly watched together in the 80s), reading, listening to music, whatever (no internet!) or having to pick them up late from gigs or dates, so one of us couldn't have any wine!

Quite possibly getting beasted.

Hungover and working as a waitress in a tourist attraction cafe. Waiting to be picked up by some greasy boy on a big motorbike before spending the evening roaring around the countryside with him and his mates, finding a remote pub by a canal or river.

Wasn't alive.

I was 13 and staying in my Nan and Grandads Caravan (just outside Southport) with my mum and baby sister. However at time I was probably waiting for my Nan and Grandad to come and pick us up to take us home.

Would have slept in then likely revising in the afternoon as would have started O Grade exam leave. And probably planning what to wear on the days I was in as we got to wear what we liked to sit them.

Would definitely have been taping the charts off the radio later - big dilemma as to whether to go for Radio 1 (they didn't talk over the songs but didn't play them all) or Network Charts (played everything but annoyingly talked over the intros!).

Spotify would have blown my mind....

I was 17 and about to sit my A levels, so probably revising.

Revising for my finals probably!

In May 1989 I would have been a month away from my wedding , aside from that I would have spent the day riding and sorting out my horses before having a roast dinner at my parents in the evening .

Being annoyed because my parents and teenage older sibs were all having a nap and I wasn't quite old enough to go out on my own yet!