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?

Early/mid 80s. We'd be having tuna sandwiches with a bag of crisps for tea as would have had roast for dinner. Was allowed to eat this in front the TV, songs of praise would be on and my Dad would be singing along and ironing, then he'd clean all the shoes (ex royal marines hence the ironing and shoe cleaning, he never did housework of course).

1960s, waiting for tea to be bought in on a rickety wooden trolley (known as Ol’s troll as mum was called Olive). Tea was egg mayonnaise sandwiches, fruit cake, Viennese whirls and a big pot of tea. All finished ready for Songs of Praise, bath and hair wash.

I'm sat drying my waist length hair in front of the gas fire. We'll have had sunday lunch at my grandma's house and my dad will have eaten all the sweet things in her house!

The tv is always on, and I think Sunday night is probably Wish You Were Here, The Clothes Show or Masterchef.
Sunday night is also the weekly bathandhairwash.

Might be waiting for an Angel Delight to set.

The worst time of all at age 12. About to get on boarding school bus.

Younger - probably eating roast dinner, bath and hair washed

Older - hanging around in school common room or home and now able to drive in Monday morning

Radio 1 Top 40 while having a bath

Probably getting ready for Jim'll fix it, while finishing off our oyster ice creams from the ice cream van.

The aroma of roast chicken would be filling the house, I’d be playing with my Dolls in my room whilst my Mum washed her hair in the sink waiting for Londons Burning on at 9 it used to scare me a bit but I’d look forward to it all day!

I remember watching The Muppets and later in the evening That’s Life. Also had that horrible Sunday evening, back to school feeling.

I like this thread a LOT 🙂

Late 80s for me.
Roast dinner at Nan's - didn't appreciate it at the time, and thought roasts were 'boring'.
Me and my little bro would play with the other kids in her neighbourhood and we'd take her dog and ours for a walk.
There was always cake at my Nan's as well, and I was allowed a cup of tea.
It always seemed to be a really long drive home but can't have been longer than 30 mins.

It's around late 80s/early 90s and I'm watching TV with my dad. Mum's in the kitchen making our tea. It will include a Mr Kipling jam tart. They'll make me watch Antiques Roadshow and then after I'll have a bath and put on my Forever Friends nightie.

Definitely watching The Five Children and It with the Psamead!

70s - having tea.

We were a breakfast, dinner (hot meal) and tea household. Tea would be bread, cheese, jam etc followed by cake. Radio 4 would be on for the six o’clock news.

Afterwards, we would sit down and watch Songs of Praise, the Antiques road show or the Sunday evening series.

1978 .my big sister and me are-putting on a show(every sunday in life))A grueling "routine" ,enforced by choregrapher sis in style of "hot gossip" to boney m ,brotherhood of man and buggles.we thought we moved them to tears(mum dad,victims,aunties uncles etc)ive since learned stifling laughs is awkward..2,3,4..

We'd be having sandwiches/crisps/cake/treats for supper as we would have had a roast at lunchtime. Allowed to eat it on little tables in front of the TV as a once a week treat. Mum would be ironing school uniforms and we would all watch American football (late 80s) and The Wonder Years if it was on.
I discovered kitkats and salt and vinegar crisps go together beautifully, not realising I had made an early discovery of the beauty of salt and sweet together!
Cats asleep in front of our log fire...bliss!

Watching Ski Sunday in the 80s trying to delay the Sunday night school preparation.

I remember watching last of the summer wine after our bath.

If we were at my grandparents house (both parents worked nights so we would stay over fairly often) it would be antiques roadshow instead.

Old enough to remember Sundays in the 1970s. Nothing to do, nowhere to go, everywhere shut - these lockdown days really remind me of those long boring days. No nostalgia here - it was shit!

Coming home from the pub (whole family used to go after dinner on a Sunday afternoon, Nan and Grandad, aunties and uncles, cousins and my brothers and sisters). Bath and hair wash then trying to listen to the Top 40.
Then going back down to make everyone’s dinner for Monday (lunchboxes was my job)

Late 60's early 70's for me. I am just putting my coat and best shoes on to go to church. It'll be freezing and boring in equal measure. After that we'll come home and have supper, Sunday is the only day of the week we have it so it's a treat. As it's winter supper will be a baked potato done in the oven of the rayburn while we are out. I am allowed butter or cheese on the potato, but not both. After a drink of full fat milk I'll put my nightie on in front of the fire in the living room then race up the freezing stairs into bed. There will be a hot water that mum has put there.

Sorry should have said late 90s. I’d have been about 14/15

Mum is ironing our uniforms and hanging them on the curtain poles in the living room. Me and my little sister have just had a bath and are sitting in front of the fire in bath robes with our wet hair in a plait so it dries wavy. We are probably watching "the neverending story" again, or I'm reading a famous five book while my sister chats to mum.
Early 90s.

Late 1980s. Having chicken(leftover from roast for lunch) and salad sandwiches watching the Antiques Roadshow with mum and dad.

@huggzy Same, I’m 42

Mid 80's - having eggy bread (or French toast as we called it in our house) in front of the TV, from a little plastic stackable table covered with wallpaper! Watching Dr Who I think?