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?

I want to be back there - NOW! Such happy days.

It's the late 50s.

Sunday school on the morning and the afternoon on my horse.

I've had a bath and my mum is combing my long hair in front of the fire.

We are listening to a serial on the Home Service. Every Sunday there was a dramatisation of a classic and we listened to it together even after we got a TV.

I am warm and happy and loved. I miss my parents so much.

Early 80s aged about 8/9. Sitting in the sofa for the only meal allowed of the week not at the table - sandwiches/toast and crisps followed by homemade cake. We would be watching Jim’ll Fix It or a BBC drama like The Borrowers.
After tea, it would be the weekly bath and then the clean nightie for the week ahead, before an early night, ready for the week to come.

Late 80s - now mid teens - same pattern for tea round the TV, but watching Howard’s Way a bit later in the evening or some other drama - maybe Agatha Christie.
Before that, yes to recording the Top 40 on a cassette and probably doing some last minute homework that was due tomorrow.

It's 1988 and I am probably bathed and in my pyjamas, watching a children's film or series, like the BBC Narnia series - with my younger brother and my mum (my Dada worked away lots).

We are having 'High Tea' which is basically sandwiches and cake, having had a roast for lunch.

These Sundays are some of my best memories.

Mid nighties, would have had mince and tatties and mum would be going to bingo so dad would be taking us out for a walk or swimming. Best times.

Mid to late nineties, I'd have been watching Time Team and eating homemade scones or crumpets with lots of jam and butter.

Recording the charts, taking care to pause when the talking is on 😆

Late 70s for me.
We usually would have Sunday lunch at 1pm with family or friends followed by a long walk in the woods, tree climbing etc.
The evenings would involve baths for us dc followed by cards or board games and then bed with a book. I used to lie in bed trying to work out how to stop the monster under my bed from getting my ankles if I got up!

Late 60s , we’d have had a Sunday roast at lunchtime , then having ham salad and bread and butter for tea
Bath , and getting ready for the school week ( I was 8 or 9 and have 2 younger sisters )
Mum would settle down later and watch The Forsyte Saga or there was a series about a bank manager ? Can’t remember what it was called , I think Hannah Gordon was in it. ( off to Google )

Taping my favourite tunes from off the radio 1 top forty show and getting irritated when mum called me to lay the table ready for dinner at 6 o'clock sharp, then back to recording whilst hurriedly doing homework before having a bath and then sitting in front of the fire watching tv (mostly wildlife and comedies) with the family before going to bed around 9ish with an Enid Blyton or Stephen King book.

Love this thread btw!

1960
Just back from Benediction. Good Catholic girls.
Waiting for the water to heat up so me and my sister could have a bath, hair wash with Vosene shampoo, then Amami waveset and conditioner (for her as she was 4 years older than me)
Then the best part of the week ........... doctor Finlay's Casebook

In the summer, either playing tennis or cricket at the club and eating early supper there (usually salad and fried chicken or calamari) after a swim.
In the winter, playing Lego, reading or playing chess/bridge and getting into fights with my brother who cheated more often than not. All while listening to really loud opera, courtesy of my father. Probably fitting in last minute piano practice for the week ahead.

Telfords Change , but that was 10 years later !
Blimey , how time flies

Mid 90s, Great Granny's house for tea which was sandwiches, cake, trifle etc. She lived in a bungalow with a beautiful wrap around garden and the smell of lavender always takes me back there. I also remember the teabags on the vegetable patch? Then home for bath and TV before school the next day, Heartbeat was usually on!

Early 1990s. Probably watching a rerun of the Waltons/Little House on The Prairie/ The Persuaders, and eating crumpets (with cheese followed by Swiss roll or something similar ) on the settee next to my mum and dad. Probably with wet hair and in pyjamas and dressing gown after a bath and hairwash. A nice memory :-). One of those random things that changed when I got married was that we don't have a settee, we have a sofa...

Early 90s - watching the Sunday teatime children's drama or playing board games with the Antiques Roadshow theme tune going in the background. Or heading back from lunch/afternoon at my grandparents'.

Mid 90s - in my bedroom having 'bits' for dinner (cheese, meats, crackers, crisps etc.) while listening to every minute of the Top 40 with finger poised ready to tape my favourite songs.

@SapphireSeptember

Mid to late nineties, I'd have been watching Time Team and eating homemade scones or crumpets with lots of jam and butter.

Ah yeaaaaahhhh Time Team was a must view!

Big Star Trek fan

Sunday evenings used to be Star Trek voyager on BBC2

Haha

Early nineties. Driving home from visiting grandmother.

Things will be tense in car. Sister and I will have done something to annoy mum. Dad will be at work.

I will have That sinking feeling, and will have just remembered the homework I haven’t done.

Eating tuc biscuits and dairylea while watching ski Sunday (and hoping for some big falls ) before bath and the inevitable argument over whether I had dried my hair fully

@partypooperforever me too!

Sitting near the fire, maybe having something nice to eat, watching TV, or listening to radio, being cosy.

Its also 1997 for me. I'm polishing my school shoes (at my dad's request) waiting for Heartbeat to come on.

Early 70's Coming home from my nans sunday lunch always tinned salmon and salad of lettuce, tomato, radish, cucumber and spring onion with salad cream. then trifle or some form of home made pie for afters. then home to a bath in front of the fire (tin bath) which my mum had to boil pans on the stove for. all 3 of us in the bath then the weekly nit comb over the local paper. The comb was metal and hurt like hell. I envied my brother and his short hair. I could sit on mine. Then into nighties and Sunday night TV.
no heating upstairs so hot water bottles in the bed and a story.