Not So Much A Footy Thread,more A Habit Changing One

[Bobbisox1]

When I was a child dinner ( Sunday's) was always 12 noon/ 12-30 to the strains of Two way Family Favourites on the radio, then I was scrubbed clean and put into my 'Sunday Best ' to go to Sunday School for 1-45, dinner was always a roast and followed by either rhubarb or apple pie that was home made with custard, tea was sandwiches and scones, again ,home made,
Now we don't have ours till about 6 pm and not always a roast, may even be a curry and now no one goes to Sunday School anymore :0)

[tiggerblue10]

We had no routine with time as such but we always had either roast chicken, beef or lamb on a Sunday. My mum sometimes used to make apple pie or crumble with custard.

[Bobbisox1]

And a bath and hair washed and combed through with the dickie comb , ready for school the next morning

[teacake44]

Emm, I had a bath last week, so I'll just have a quick wipe with the flannel and carbolic if we got any. Poooooo

[retrocop]

Think our two lads put the kibosh on family Sunday Roasts about 20 years ago when they were mid teens. First one had 'made arrangements' and then the other. In the end it just wasn't worth the shopping for the joint and veg ,preparing and washing up just for two of us. The Spoons,had a reasonable Sunday Roast at that time so the wife and I just ate up there until they stopped. Now we have anything out the freezer which has been home made and pre-cooked. Chilli,Curry,Traybake.etc.
I used to enjoy Two Way Family favourites,Billy Cotton, Round the Horn on Sundays.

[Bobbisox1]

And the top twenty on Radio Luxembourg Retro at 6pm

[marval]

We always had a Sunday roast at about One o'clock. We went to church in the morning. Pudding was sometimes apple crumble or pie. We always had a lot of gooseberries and blackcurrants, loads of bushes in our garden.(I hate blackcurrants.)

I use to like listening to the radio as well.

[Bobbisox1]

Can you remember Life with the Lyons Marval?

[marval]

Ooh yes I can, also Wee Jimmy Clitheroe.

[Bobbisox1]

And Whacko with Jimmy Edwards, later to transfer to TV,I remember going to the Isle of Wight in the early 60s we stayed on a caravan site at Rhyde and had many little pretty lanes to go for walks, it was once such Walk that I came across the late Cliff Michelmore trimming the hedge of their thatched cottage, his wife Jean Metcalf ( 2 way family favourites )was bringing him a ccup of tea out, a lovely couple who we stopped to chat with , happy days

[marval]

How lovely Bobbi, Cliff Michelmore was at an air show we went to. I got his autograph.

[retrocop]

//And the top twenty on Radio Luxembourg Retro at 6pm//

Our steam driven Ecko radio could barely reach Luxembourg but pop music was my sister's baby and I would have to listen to whines and squeals and buzz's and hums only to finally pick up bloody Horace Bachelor with his unbeatable Pools plan in Keynsham, Bristol. :-)

[Bobbisox1]

A very distinctive Queens English voice and he repeated the spelling like K.E.Y.N.S.H.A.M Bristol haha
Early TV too with a lot of spin offs from radio like The Billy Cotton Band Show, I'm sure his son later became director general at the BBC?

[Tilly2]

Bacon and eggs for breakfast whilst listening to The Archers.
Dad prepared all the vegetables whilst mum and I hoovered and dusted the sitting room.
12.00 Dad off to the pub.
Homework time for me.
3.00 pm Dad back from the pub.
Sunday Dinner
Relaxing
Dad prepared the Sunday tea.
Sunday tea, listening to the radio.
More homework for me.
Bath, hair wash, bed.

Sometimes we went to Grandma and Grandad's for Sunday dinner. I used to enjoy that.

[marval]

We used to have boiled eggs for tea on a Sunday, with either bread or toast.

[Bobbisox1]

I'd love to do a Nostalgia thread each week here but would that be too much ?

[shoota]

Ah, yes, those pre-war days were halcyon....

[marval]

No, I don't think so, people can either join in or not.

[Tilly2]

I wouldn't know, Shoota.

[Bobbisox1]

Me either shoota, I was born after the war and never knew the hardships of it

[Bobbisox1]

Something to ponder over Marval:0)