sunday night routine as a child

we'llallhavetea_old

what was your most memorable sunday evening routine as a child??
mine is having your bath, going down to the sitting room hopping up on the sofa, mammy bringing in egg and soldiers to me, my sis and dad, and we'd munch it down while watching "The darling buds of may" then we'd have scones and drag out the process for as long as possible so we weren't sent to bed! ah happy memories!!

Ruu_Old

After Glenroe you realise that you have school in the morning, hoping that I had every scrap of homework done.

we'llallhavetea_old

i also remember on occasion, sitting on the sofa with the soggiest bowl of cornflakes known to man, trying to buy some more time! soggy cornflakes... ugh!!

zzap64

Glenroe was certainly a bit part of it. Watching it with parents as a child and then knowing bed was afterwards. Then later on (secondary school) up in my room doing my homework, hearing the Glenroe theme tune and cursing that I'd still loads of homework to get through with time running out! :-D

Ann22

When I was very young I remember sunny Sunday evenings when 'The Little House on the Prairie' used to be on while we would have homemade buns with jam and coconut on them or little bowls of butterscotch Angel Delight mmmmm! 'The Muppet Show' too 'Pigs in spaaaace!':) great show! Think Worzel Gummidge was on on a Sunday evening for a while too:). They don't make them like that anymore. Sunday nights from my secondary school years had 'Where in the World', 'Glenroe' and 'Spitting Image':( strong memories of an awareness of school the next day.

Tchaikovsky

Having my weekly bath, the smell of the hairdryer and microwaved Weetabix!!

CiaranC

Why did you all have breakfast at night? And Glenroe? I suspect yous are all culchies

Tchaikovsky

What did the Dubs do?

stovelid

Hearing the opening theme of That's Life and getting that sinking feeling in your stomach because school was the next day.

Or even worse still, the horrible theme of The Sunday Game.

we'llallhavetea_old

CiaranC wrote: »

Why did you all have breakfast at night? And Glenroe? I suspect yous are all culchies

yes yes, culchies. breakfast is the most important meal of the day, why not get double the benefits?
superkids always have more than one brekkie

Ruu_Old

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

What did the Dubs do?

DART spottin' I suspect.

civildefence

Glenroe haunted my dreams on Sunday night, anyone remember 'Where In The World with Teresa Lowe'

misssaucie

It's about 22 years ago now but every Sunday evening my brother and I had swimming lessons and Mam pregnant with bro number 2 used to collect us from the pool, bring us home to a roaring fire and make us cups of milky sweet tea and toasted cheese sandwiches with real butter on the outside and we'd sit up and watch Bullseye, it was so sophisticated at the time, people winning caravans and mopeds one Sunday evening my parents surprised us with our first ever visit to a chinese restaurant..... damp hair and smelling of clorine it seemed so exotic, after 8's after dinner, happy happy days ... btw think we only had chips but hey

K4t

Class thread.

Bath - Nails cut - Scrapheap Challenge - Bed

Brings back memories

we'llallhavetea_old

^^


ooh!! i remember the nails gettin cut!! dad used to pin me in behind him on the armchair and i'd just pass in the necessary limb while he chopped away!!

K4t

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

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ooh!! i remember the nails gettin cut!! dad used to pin me in behind him on the armchair and i'd just pass in the necessary limb while he chopped away!!

Ya, I'd put it off for as long as possible too, '5 more minutes!'

Oh I forgot the toasted cheese sandwiches. No sunday night was complete without them.

Poutbutton

I'm a Dub and we used to get rice crispies before bed...neices and nephew do too nowadays. Also, we used to get our bath and the hair done in curls on saturday nights then polish the shoes for mass on sunday morning...I remember "murphy's micro quiz-m" {Mike Murphy} I remember the riordans, Bracken :eek: and Glenroe, I hated them all so used to run up to bed on hearing the sound track but I also remember That's Life with Esther Ranzen and even if it was boring pretending to love it just to stay up....

Monkey61

Roast chicken for dinner followed by Glenroe, which later progressed to an evening spent in front of UTV with my Gran. You've been Framed, followed by Heartbeat, then I would make a cup of hot chocolate and Gran would have coffee with rich tea biscuits. Then it was London's Burning, by which stage the familiar feeling of dread about school in the morning would have taken over....

Slaygal

I remember thinking how rubbish the tv was on Sunday nights and pretending to like Glenroe so I could stay up later.

silverharp

all I remember was the muppet show on ITV and later twee sitcoms like open all hours

Johnny Storm

Ruu wrote: »

After Glenroe you realise that you have school in the morning, hoping that I had every scrap of homework done.

+1, except in my case it was the Riordans and I would still be doing my homework

stovelid

stovelid wrote: »

Or even worse still, the horrible theme of The Sunday Game.

+1000!

I still dont like hearing it.

mental07

Rojomcdojo wrote: »

+1000!

I still dont like hearing it.

Especially for you (albeit the 2008 version)
It's on during the summer though so we'd have been on holidays, no?

Tchaikovsky

Sunday morning tv was so much better... 'Little House On The Prairie', 'The Waltons', '10,000 Leagues Under The Sea' and best of all, 'Rawhide' (I have the theme tune on my iPod, haha!)

Dirk Gently

bath - the school around the corner - toast - glenroe - bed.

Sunday nights were terribly depressing.

steveone

home work, glenroe, murphys micro quiz-M or when younger sunday night at the palladium....
then bed...
oh the knot in my stomach over school the next day....

stovelid

mental07 wrote: »

Especially for you (albeit the 2008 version)
It's on during the summer though so we'd have been on holidays, no?

Jesus, I still hate it to to this day.

Never watched it myself. Just always associate the theme with Sundays in general because my Da used to watch it.

Also my Da listening to GAA on Sundays.

Remember Murphy's Micro Quiz-M on a Sunday night. Early 80s IIRC. Before or after Glenroe I think.

Monkeybonkers

civildefence wrote: »

Glenroe haunted my dreams on Sunday night, anyone remember 'Where In The World with Teresa Lowe'

Ah Teresa Lowe. Used to fancy her when she was on d'telly. She ended up as my lawyer years later when I was up in court for some misdemeanour. Lol, the circle is complete!

emeraldstar

We used to go over to our grandparent's farm on Sunday afternoon and spend the whole day either playing around outside in the orchard or the haybarn or the woods or wherever, or else inside either with mountains of Lego/Sticklebricks/marbles or play Hide & Seek. Then my granny would make an amaaazing tea with plates and plates of sandwiches (these were theee most absolutely amazing sandwiches you could ever taste), bread and butter, cakes (chocolate/coffee/sponge/tea cake), buns, scones, meringues, biscuits, and lots and lots of tea.

Then my family would all drive home (less than 10 minutes) when it was dark and we kids would either crouch down in the back pretending that there were witches outside, or else the lot of us would sing songs all the way home (I'm A Rambler, I'm A Gambler/Cher/Rod Stewart/Neil Diamond). That part was all a bit Waltons-esque really.

Ann22

emeraldstar wrote: »

We used to go over to our grandparent's farm on Sunday afternoon and spend the whole day either playing around outside in the orchard or the haybarn or the woods or wherever, or else inside either with mountains of Lego/Sticklebricks/marbles or play Hide & Seek. Then my granny would make an amaaazing tea with plates and plates of sandwiches (these were theee most absolutely amazing sandwiches you could ever taste), bread and butter, cakes (chocolate/coffee/sponge/tea cake), buns, scones, meringues, biscuits, and lots and lots of tea.

Then my family would all drive home (less than 10 minutes) when it was dark and we kids would either crouch down in the back pretending that there were witches outside, or else the lot of us would sing songs all the way home (I'm A Rambler, I'm A Gambler/Cher/Rod Stewart/Neil Diamond). That part was all a bit Waltons-esque really.

That was a cool wee story. You made me hungry though:o.

emeraldstar

Ann22 wrote: »

That was a cool wee story. You made me hungry though:o.

I know, me too

kevinkilbane

Monkey61 wrote: »

Roast chicken for dinner followed by Glenroe, which later progressed to an evening spent in front of UTV with my Gran. You've been Framed, followed by Heartbeat, then I would make a cup of hot chocolate and Gran would have coffee with rich tea biscuits. Then it was London's Burning, by which stage the familiar feeling of dread about school in the morning would have taken over....

very similar to me. we used to go for dinner on sunday afternoon in my nannys. then in the evening head home. and i used to watch all the crap programmes on utv cos my mam would always watch em (only one telly back then), heartbeat sticks in my head. i hated sunday evenings, worst time of the week, school in a matter of hours, the weekend over. and i hated primary school which didnt help.
by the way, i notice many people on here, had a bath on sundays. crazy people, nutters. everyone knows bath night is saturday, and then you watch match of the day if you were lucky enough to stay awake that late.

porte

omg sunday as a kid going to my nans for sunday dinner while my dad and uncle had a few beers.
watching bonanza before going home for our weekly bath then settleing down for jam sams and the muppet show.

mukki

surprised no one has mentioned thats life and spitting image.

admiralofthefleet

anyone remember hale & pace

Sparky84

Spitting image on a Sunday night was class. Fr Michael Cleary (RIP) on the radio was often a topic for conversation in school on a Monday.

Ash-209

the simpsons while mam or dad ironed the uniform, then bath, crying as my mam tried to run a comb through my hair without making me bald! (conditioner was unheard of) chipper in the pjs, heartbeat, londons burning, then making any excuse to stay up 30 seconds longer like "but this is my favourite ad! can i not just watch it and then ill go?"

mikedublin

"Thats Life" on BBC1 on a sunday night was the last bit of the weekend for me before another 5 gloomy days at school. Esther Rantzen was the presenter with stories of people who'd had run-ins with the gas board over their bill, odd shaped vegatables, strange mis-prints in the papers, odd photos taken on holidays, talking dogs and other such fun (we were easily amused back then LOL).

Vas_Guy

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

anyone remember hale & pace

Pure class, they can be found on youtube or on men & motors.

My sunday evening consisted of the following at different stages of course in the 80s & 90s:

Last of the Summer Wine
Tales of the Unexpected
Murphy's Micro Quizz
Where in the World

Bed

When i got a bit older

Splitting Image
Hale & Pace
The South Bank Show

freddyf

Great thread.

Sunday game music was a big part of my sunday night and the dreaded feeling of school the next day . That really was an awful feeling .

Paddo81

Everyones memories of this seem to be very similar! Ireland was very homogenous back in the day.

All I can remember is that Glenroe theme tune. Its written on my soul. I never really liked it either but me parents did so I had to watch it. Then Where in the World after it.

Who remembers The Daniel O' Donnell Show? Watchin that and knowin you had a week of school ahead would give you serious depression!

Its funny the way we all assosciated Sunday night with the awful school feeling. I wish that was all I had to worry about these days.....

Tegan

bath - hair - nails- the school around the corner - toast/tea - glenroe - bed......

You know your irish when u have the Sunday nigh bath for school......

syklops

Ruu wrote: »

After Glenroe you realise that you have school in the morning, hoping that I had every scrap of homework done.

For me it was knowing Glenroe was imminent and knowing I had little or nothing done. I might have done the maths and english as I liked them, but the Irish wouldn't be. Some night were spent quickly scribbling behind the couch as Mylie exclaims "Well holy God!" every so often.

syklops

mikedublin wrote: »

"Thats Life" on BBC1 on a sunday night was the last bit of the weekend for me before another 5 gloomy days at school. Esther Rantzen was the presenter with stories of people who'd had run-ins with the gas board over their bill, odd shaped vegatables, strange mis-prints in the papers, odd photos taken on holidays, talking dogs and other such fun (we were easily amused back then LOL).

I liked that. Its a bit like Watchdog, which was on last night.

branie

Watching Where in the World and Glenroe and then bed. I did my homework on Saturday

ronan45

getting my skull cracked after toiling in the fields for the day picking stones out of the soil that was my sunday

syklops

ronan45 wrote: »

getting my skull cracked after toiling in the fields for the day picking stones out of the soil that was my sunday

Why were you getting your skull cracked?

gammygils

'The Riordans' Then bed. Quick! Before The News...

We thought Benjy Riordan was so cool!