This is a great thread! @AnneOfCleavage My dad was good at doing voices while reading. I vividly remember him being "high and flutey" while he read Willy Wonka saying "But I'll get it right soon, and when I do, there'll be no excuse for little boys and girls going around with bald heads!" I hope being made to miss the story while standing on the mat didn't happen to you too often; what kind of misbehaviour would warrant that?
My parents never played pop music: I wasn't even aware it really existed until I was a teenager. Instead, we were brought up to love Radio 3. One of our favourite childhood records was one of renaissance instruments such as shawms and crumhorns; we liked it because most of the music was upbeat. Our childhood nanny told me some years later that she used to tune the radio to a pop station, and had to remember to put it back afterwards!
We had a gadget for making home made yogurt, which my mum saw as far more economical than buying yogurt pots. It contained six glasses with rubber lids, which would be slowly heated for a few hours. It did not have an automatic timer: instead, one of the pots had a lid with the numbers of a clock, which had to be turned to face an arrow saying "ready by".