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?

Great memories on this thread! London's Burning! The Clothes Show!

Sitting in front of the fire while my Grandad brushes my hair. My Grandmas just given me a bath and is now cleaning up the monsoon I made in the bathroom. Grandad will try and blow dry my hair but I will complain, knowing he wont force me and instead it can dry by the fire. Before my bath I had a roast dinner or some other home cooked meal. On TV is "just william", "last of the summer wine" and "heartbeat". I know Grandma will drive me home soon and I feel sick at the thought of it. I love it here. My house is cold, everybody is too busy working to speak to me and I have to go to school tomorrow. Once dropped home I will sob my heart out and wish the week away until I return to my grandparents on Friday.

I have to say that the 'tea' type meals of sandwiches and cakes sound way better than the meat and boiled veg type

I'd be curled up on the sofa with my dad watching TV while mum cooked the dinner.

Homemade pizza and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Probably having my tea and watching 'Catweazle' on the TV. After that,I'd be sent off to have a bath,then my DM would come up and wash my hair. Then,once I was dried and dressed in my pyjamas/nightie,my Dad would brush and comb my hair then blow dry it with a very old fashioned (by today's standards) Pifco hairdryer. This must have around 1971/72,when I was 8 or 9.

So sad BMW6 💐

In summer would be out, riding my pony across the fields somewhere. Winter, inside, enduring Antiques Roadshow and dreading school (undone homework). Being nagged to 'get my bag ready for the morning'. We'd have had Sunday lunch about 1pm, accompanied by Farming Diary and adverts for Roundup on TV.
Dinner would be a roast chicken sandwich, home made fruit pie or Vesta packet risotto (featuring chunks of dried catfood). Yum!

@LadyCatStark

Mid- nineties: we lived in Saudi Arabia so playing out all day with the other children on the compound, probably swimming and maybe dinner out in a restaurant on another compound.

I live in Saudi as a child - early nineties so just a few years before you. This describes my own experience perfectly. Just thought I'd say 'Hi!' As I never came across anyone else who'd done this

Early 1990s, we’d had roast lunch at one grandmother’s and were at the other grandmother’s for party food style supper with all the aunts, uncles and cousins. We’d usually get home about 6, bath and hair wash, then watch Last of the Summer Wine with a mug of hot squash before bed.

Bullseye with beef dripping sandwiches on white bread, bath running before my weekly hair wash and brush that always had me in tears. I can still smell the condensation from Sunday lunch.

I just looked at the link and saw Poldark when I was 10, and then realised the thread was asking for what I was doing at 5.30! not 7.30.

can only remember the top 20, my sister wrote them down, and i carried on, we had books that we wrote in, quite aptly she became a librarian

Coming home from my Ju-Jitsu class, warming up what ever everyone else had for lunch in the oven and eating on my own in the kitchen.

It sounds lonely but it fantastic to have time to myself.

@NeverDropYourMoonCup- how do you get on with your parents now? That sounds utterly bleak .

Interesting that so many feature the weekly bath and hair wash. There is a whole industry now built around keeping clean.

Also had a bath and hairwash on wednesdays, agree though, there is a whole different attitude now

Getting our weekly bath ha ha, don't quite understand the obsession with people bathing their kids every night TBH! We were always clean though, had a wash at the sink every day (God, I sound old!).

Mid 80’s Having tea (dinner was at 1) of cold meat sandwiches and watching Bullseye

A few years later taping the top 40, trying out different make up looks from Just 17 while making excuses to not finish my homework

In the bath with my sibling being nit combed, nails trimmed, etc. We had cottage pie for dinner and I had thirds. Afterwards I will put on my Winnie the Pooh nightie and have my hair french plaited into two plaits like Heidi and then sprayed with hairspray for nit prevention, in front of The Little Mermaid, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty. Half way through Mum will pause the video and we will go for fruit crumble (apple, banana and tinned peaches this time) and hot custard, and a mug of Hot squash.

I really can't remember I didn't have a great childhood and was bullied at school. But I remember the feeling of dread on Sunday afternoons/ evening. My family also lived in the middle of nowhere so nothing to do, ever.

Sorry I said dinner, but it would have been called tea.

Finishing up at the stables. Cleaning tack, grooming and turning out my loan pony and generally tidying before my mum comes to pick me up.

(My Sundays are very similar now!)

Mid to late 90s

I can barely remember, but, 1970s - like 'PotatoesPastaAndBread* - we had Sunday lunch approximately 2pm (we'd have come home from visiting nana or grandad (they divorced so separate houses)), we would be watching a BBC drama - e.g. Lion Witch and Wardrobe (my DM read us the books too) or Doctor Who with scary daleks.

We'd have had a bath if it was bath night but also getting ready for school in the morning - so maybe ironing school uniform etc.

@OhWhyNot

Mid 80’s Having tea (dinner was at 1) of cold meat sandwiches and watching Bullseye

A few years later taping the top 40, trying out different make up looks from Just 17 while making excuses to not finish my homework

and this - very very similar. Bored as F as teenagers, finishing homework and messing around with music, fashion etc.