It’s 5.30 on the Sunday nights of our childhoods. AIBU to ask you what you are doing?

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It is 5.30 on any Sunday night of your childhood. For me it’s approximately 1997. I am having my hair nit combed in the front room, having been told off for not eating all my roast pork. Dad is messing around with the fire because it won’t draw properly. It’s all a bit tense.

What are you doing?

Waiting for the football pools after the 6pm news.

Cold salad tea with poked eggs and pickled onions

Bullseye or antiques roadshow I think

I have memories of Ski Sunday and Antiques Roadshow on Sunday evenings. And also taping my favourite songs from the Top 40 show. I am a child of the 70s/80s.

I'd be waiting for my mum to pick me up from my dads, we would then stop at my nans and my grandad would make me smash with minty gravy and ice cream for dessert. He would pretend to spit at me with a hand puppet dog called spit. Really wish I could go and see them now I love how my grandad is with my kids really makes me think of those days when I was young.

Reading Babysitter's Club books in my room. Perhaps doing homework due the next day, often involving craft supplies my mother had to rush out and get earlier that day (I was a big procrastinator). Later we will have pasta with tomato sauce, a glass of milk, and some brownies made from a mix.

Late 70s early 80s. Bath and hair wash. Sitting by the wood stove. Playing drafts or cards. Laughing so much at people’s singing faces on songs of praise I nearly cried every week.

@PuppyMonkey same here!!!

Mid 60s. Would have arrived back home from visiting my nan and grandad, and then spent ages extracting winkles from their shells and having them for tea, along with shrimps and bread and butter. Alternate weeks we'd have cake (either battenberg or angel) or jelly and carnation milk.

Sometimes we had to go to church then, which I did not like!
In young childhood we sometimes went to the park Sunday pm, and later would be a smaller tea having had a big Sunday lunch - often frozen mini pizzas or cheese on toast.

If I was 17/18 I’d be getting ready to watch pride and prejudice later on!

At 5.30pm I'm in my room taping the Pepsi Chart Show. I'm going to miss Number 1 because dinner is at 6pm (cooked my mum if it's chicken, or by dad if it's pork, lamb or beef). Because my parent's think they are enlightened and progressive they will let my brother and I have a small glass of wine. We don't want one because wine is disgusting.

Later we'll probably watch Heartbeat and wonder exactly how one is supposed to pronounce 'Niamh' (as in Niamh Cusack).

Just remembered The Clothes Show! Very distinctive theme music. That was on around this time wasn't it?

Watched 'The Storyteller' after having some kind of meat and two veg for tea, followed by Bird's trifle, and waiting for the bath to run.

Eating cold roast beef sandwiches. My mum used to slice an onion into vinegar to go with the sandwiches. We had roast beef for Sunday dinner, practically every Sunday. It's taken me ages to like beef again on a Sunday.

2000s. Probably having dinner on the sofa in the dining room with my sister, watching The Simpsons or America’s Next Top Model repeats. DPs would be in the living room, as they had their dinner later. Dad enjoying a beer, mum watching antiques roadshow or similar. Possibly a brother or two knocking around in their room if they were still living at home at this point.
I would do almost anything to go back.

Late 70s. In my quilted nylon dressing gown damp from my weekly shared bath and stinging from the hard soap. Cheese on toast and rock buns for tea.
Little Lord Fauntleroy is on

Late 80s here, evening time, bathed with nightie on. A pink nightie with a Care Bear on. The bathroom was a sage green colour and there was a dark brown carpet in the bathroom. Mum drying my hair with her hair dryer and accidentally getting it too close so there's a funny burning smell. Dad is sitting in front of the TV with his paper and the news is on. My nana rings up and my mum goes to answer the phone (one of those beige ones everyone seemed to have back then!). I sit playing with my Barbie's until she comes back to sort my hair out. My favourite Barbie wore a sparkly pink ball gown with glow in the dark stars on and a glittery parasol.

Lovely memories, make me a bit sad to think back!!

Late 90s. At a family members house eating a Sunday dinner, to whos house we all piled round to after the adults meeting in the pub. They took it in turns to do it for 13 people Afternoon spent with my cousins in the pub with a glass of orange squash and some crisps. If the sweet man came round we could all have £1 each to buy some sweets.
Such lovely memories, happy times. I had forgotten about it until now.
Thank you OP.

Sitting round the dinner table with my siblings and parents who by now are well into the home brew.

Then dishes while listening to the top 40 and a bath, drying my hair in front of the gas fire. I would often only have the right side (TV watching side) dry. All the while the feeling of dread increasing as school and Monday morning got nearer.

late 70's, early 80's, sitting by the coal fire, trying not to think about the homework I hadn't done. Cuddling the dog / cat. TV on a Sunday night was terrible so would read the funnies in the newspaper. Peel an orange perhaps, and throw the skin on the coals and listen to it sizzle.

Sitting in front of the fire after a bath, melting chocolate digestives, waiting for Last of the Summer Wine to start. Maybe doing reading with parents.

I remember the Ski Sunday theme, the Dallas theme and also snooker programme theme. Also the Bill !

Late 70’s. Watching last of summer wine at my nan’s house, I hated it. Loved everything else about visiting my nan’s on a Sunday, but I thought that programme was so dreary and unfunny. And for grown ups not children.

It’s 1979. I’ve eaten my roast chicken dinner and pulled the wishbone with Dad. Then rice pudding, with lots of the lovely nutmeggy skin.

Now I’m in my room, taping the top 40 on my Binatone radio cassette player that my Grandad bought me for Christmas.

I’d give anything to be back there, just for an hour or two...

Early 80s assuming it is winter time. Either getting ready to travel home from my Grandparents about 40 mins away or if we stayed at home watching itv (the only uk channel we could get) or helping my mom with dinner. I always packed my school bag on Sunday morning.

It’s the year 1996, we finished the roast and Grandma has her bag on her lap waiting to go home!

It’s about 1978. I’m watching the ‘The Snow Queen’ on TV, eating a crumpet with butter and marmite. My family are in the kitchen, I can’t tear myself away from Gerda and Kai.