Sunday - Sunday!

[Jemisa]

D'ya treat Sunday as a special day or class it as the same as the other days of the week.? Cos, when I was a child it was Special, we had BEST clothes we only were allowed to wear Sunday, We went to Sunday-School.We had salmon and cucumber sandwiches for tea. & Aunty Rose always baked a fruit cake for afterwards
NO shopping, all the shops were shut.
Do you remember those days or am I talking 'Stone-age' to some?

jem

[waterboatman]

I remember them well Jem. I'm glad they are gone.

[NoMercy]

We do treat sundays as a special days in our family, albeit much less informally than you've described. We all gather together for Sunday lunch for which we all take a turn to cook. It's my mother's turn to cook this week and we're having something not too dissimilar to a Christmas Dinner.

[NoMercy]

*much less formally* ! lol

[ruthann58]

yes jemisa i remember them, i think it was better ,

[Sqad]

Sunday.......t´was the worst day of the week.
I was "forced" to go to Sunday School and then to church........cold, smelly, hard pews.......sermon bore no relation to anything that I felt relevant,mainly in a language that I couldn´t understand. I was not allowed to play football on Sunday,shopping was out, as Jemisa said "all shops closed"......cinemas did open, but I was not allowed to go. Grandad went to the pub and came back at 2pm for a family lunch (grandad, grandma and me) of small joint, potatoes and cabbage...........church again at night followed by a walk.

Sunday..........forget it.

[NoMercy]

That sounds awful, Sqad !

[sandyRoe]

Where I lived they even had the swings in the children's playgrounds chained up on Sunday. The shops, cinemas, and pubs were closed. If anybody wanted a drink they'd have to get themselves signed-in to a local club.
I'd be sent for the papers, Screws of the World, and The People, and we'd listen to 2 way family favourites on the wireless.
Miserable, it was.

[NoMercy]

All supermarkets were closed in Spain on a Sunday - except for Intermarche. Unsurprisingly, Intermarché were mobbed on Sundays and did a roaring trade on fresh bocadillos. However, someone reported them for Sunday trading and they were forced to close on Sundays from that point in time. They went bust within a year and it's now become a Mas Y Mas. The finger of blame was pointed squarely in Carrefour's direction.

[Sqad]

NoM/sandy...LOL

Ah! but into my middle teens, after Sunday School at night we all went round in turn to somebody´s house, into the front room, lights out and "snogged"..........bloody fab.

[sandyRoe]

We were so poor we didn't have a front room. We had to do our 'lumbering' in an alley behind the street. And shouldn't this thread be titled: Sunday, bloody Sunday?

[Sqad]

sandy....never heard it called "lumbering"

[sandyRoe]

Scottish and N Ireland usage. Tame by todays standards, I suppose.

[Sqad]

sandy..right...;-)

[Dris]

lol sandy -we still say did you get a lumber last night :)
You've just reminded me of the chains being tied up ! O and even when I was drinking age you could only get a drink in a Hotel.My Dads generation had to go to the nearest town on a Sunday if they wanted to socialise-they werent allowed to in their own town.
My Sundays have never been special -just a day for preparing for the following working week which in turn always makes me think Sundays are a wasted day.I never ever think to do anything special on a Sunday.

[boxtops]

I remember those Sundays, there was a reverence about it in those days - Dad used to work in the garden. I no longer go to church so now it's another day before we go back to work on Monday.... and those of other faith groups have Friday or Saturday as their religious day anyway.

[TTG]

I try and visit family on Sundays.

[Jemisa]

Yes, it was special but good special or bad special well only we know that. Boy, its a whole new ball game today tho..

jem

[anneasquith]

"winchin" on a sunday ,,tut tut.

[Jemisa]

"winchin" - anne? is that a local word?
Don't know the meaning.:o}

jem