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?

In my grandparents house with my family. The fire is roaring, Bullseye is on and we are eating cold beef with loads of salt. Bliss

Listening to the charts on Radio One and finishing off my homework

Im sat in front of the fire with one of these on my head...took forever to dry

Down from a bath during which our hair was washed with those foam yellow halo things to stop the water getting in our eyes. Currently running around the sitting room about to eat eggs and soldiers watching something like the railway children on telly while my dad tucks the curtains in on all the windows of our (very thick walled) cottage. My mother will be stuck into the gin in the kitchen and yabbering to a friend in the phone.

Lovely thread! Late 80s. My sister and me would have been bathed and in pyjamas and getting ready for the Beachcombers and Littlest Hobo (in Canada). Mum would be prepping ingredients for a stir fry in the electric wok that she pulled out every Sunday. A Sunday stir fry was quite eccentric back then for sure!

Sat infront of the electric fire watching something or other on tv. Gladiators maybe.

Weekly bath and hairwash. Dried in front of the gas fire with Sing Something Simple on the radio.

This thread has reminded me of tea trollies. We used to visit an ex neighbour a few times a year and she’d present us with tea and the most amazing homemade cake, on the most perfectly twee little trolley

Late 80s/early 90s. I am between 6 and 10 years old. I am waiting for my tea - we listened to the Top 40 while we ate. Then it's a bath and hair wash. The bathroom is freezing because we don't have central heating, but the bath is hot. Mum rags my hair and it takes nearly an hour to dry. Then watching The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Five Children and It, Borrowers etc. Check my uniform for school because if I haven't said I haven't got shirts etc I will get absolutely hammered. Bed, reading a book.

It's the 70s & early 80s. We would have been to visit Nanna & Grandad, then home ready to listen to the Top 20 on Dad's music centre. He'd put coloured lightbulbs in the ceiling light to make it feel like a disco for us and we'd be dancing away.

For our favourite songs, me & my sister would each stand on our Dad's feet and dance around the sitting room. I absolutely loved it.

1980s
Always a packet soup (Florida spring vegetable was a fave) with tuna sandwiches. Always with vinegar not any Mayo or salad cream. Maybe some home made pickles.
Slight feeling of dread about Monday
But I'm nostalgic now!

Lovely idea for a thread, OP. :)

It's mid-70s and it's hair-washing and nail-cutting time in front of the Muppet Show. After that is Shillingbury Tales which my brothers are not interested in at all.

Sunday afternoon tea at my nans. Mid 80's. Watching bonanza or little house on the prairie.
Then home for a bath and hairwash ready for school Monday.

Watching 3 children & It or Heartbeat

Having dinner then going to grandparents house and watching heartbeat

About 1980. Sitting on an armchair. My mum on the sofa. Eating beans with melted cheese on toast. Then will have a slice of strawberry gateau from the bakers. Watching Antiques roadshow on the tele. Me and mum are watching it together. (so sue me if the Antiques roadshow wasn't on at exactly that time).

Ironing uniforms in front on The Wonder Years.
I was a child slave

Watching Anne of green gables

Sunday nights were Antiques Roadshow and Last of the Summer Wine.

Early 70s. Watching whatever the Sunday afternoon children's serial was.

A bit later watching Songs of Praise just me and mum (there were five of us kids - where was everyone else??), admiring/taking the piss out of the ladies hats.

Helping DM prepare the veg for the roast or laying the table. Listening to her complain that she can never sit down and watch Antiques Roadshow and last of the Summer Wine.

@ilovepixie

Early 80's at boarding school. We're all huddled around the radio listening to the top 40! The charts were so important back then.

You didn't go to school in Cardiff did you??

In the 70's, I think it would be my turn in the bath. You had to put the immersion on for a bath, and so the ritual of 'putting the top switch on' would occur about 4 so that dad could have first bath and be done before Songs of Praise. Then my brother, then me (you did get to top up with hot water).

sitting by the coal fire reading top of the pops magazine, bath/shower then downstairs to say goodnight...i think i remember antiques roadshow and London's burning, possibly Casualty.

We'd be eating a Sunday roast cooked by my dad. I'd be told of course we can't have the TV on while eating 😆. Then my brother and I would wash and dry the dishes and we'd watch Sunday night gripping TV like the antiques roadshow, songs of praise, countryfile .. bizarrely I do miss those days!