Sunday evening before the WWW what did you do?

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 21:28

What did you all do on a Sunday evening before the internet and Cyprus 44?



Keep it clean folks.



Chris

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 21:30

I used to donkey stone the front step,

Paul.

zerochlor


Joined: 03/04/2009
Posts: 4024

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 21:34

i double u double u double ued her before www came along.

cronos


Joined: 26/10/2008
Posts: 2093

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 21:36

Paul ...was that before getting up an hour before you went to bed to start a 25 hour shift dahn t' pit ?

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 21:47

played golf , phoned my missus to come and get me after the round and a few sniffters , she usually strapped me in to the back seat , not the first time ive woke at 5 in the morning still strapped in wondering , where the hell am i ? the clubhouse , the 18th , no , in my drive freezing > bitch .

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 21:52

When i was a kid (not that long ago) a Sunday night in our house meant hair washing and the bone (nit) comb came out and boy it was not funny. Homework was done for school on Monday morning that my dad thought I was going to.



We were not allowed to watch TV why I will never know as we were certainly not a religious family and computers were probably not invented then!



Zerochor you must have been so romantic!



Paul are you sure they didn't sent you up the chimneys as well?



Chris

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 21:57

"you were lucky" mess 4.Father used to whip us within an inch of our lives,

Paul.

newlad



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Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 22:01

Used to in old shoe box int middle of troad,

Paul.

blinky



Joined: 07/12/2008
Posts: 187

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 22:04

hovis bread newlad, was that u pushin that bike up thill?? xx

Blackbird



Joined: 11/08/2009
Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 22:05

.....Luxury - we lived in the gutter - father flogged us within an inch of our lives, every Sunday.

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 22:08

We had to watch songs of praise it was a sunday thing..even my girls would sit while they were young..Vic would smile at me on Sunday evenings when i would shout....Oh i love this one...



The London palladium..Dickson of dock green evening all..The 2 Ronnies...Then cane along Ant and Dec.. X factor..





guess i used to enjoy my sundays )





Spider,X

arrry



Joined: 19/08/2008
Posts: 1235

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 22:12

Ah those were the days !! Sunday afternoons were sometimes good but often bad if my dad had a bad day on the horses !! If he won then we would have scampi , ( don't ask me why ) !! If he lost then it was usually the belt for me !!! Memories eh !! You youngsters don't know you've been born !!

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 22:17

Listening to 'Sing something simple' with the Cliff Adams Singers

Skippy on the Telly, or was it Flipper...?

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 22:29

Blackbird, You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 22:39

And Sunday lunch in our house was awful my mother was a terrible cook we always had 'boiled chicken'

soggy vegetables, lumpy mash. And to add insult to injury cake and lumpy custard.



But reading about you lot that had to work down t'mill I probably had a posh upbringing! not.



Chris

arrry



Joined: 19/08/2008
Posts: 1235

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 22:59

My mum knew we hated swede so why did she give it to us every sunday ???? Great days though !! LOL

Blackbird



Joined: 11/08/2009
Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 23:27

No1 doyen...Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

nurseawful



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Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 23:30

Blackbird



You were definitely posh our swimming pool was a puddle and our fins were called wellies!





Chris

Lemtich



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Posts: 1487

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 23:47

I came from a family of Seventh Day Advent Hop-ists.



My parents believed that every Sunday should be spent hopping. We would hop to church, hop through the service, then hop back home again. I can tell you, Sunday lunchtimes were a nightmare - we all had to wear sou'westers and asbestos underpants.



You see, my parents took the Bible literally - Adam and Eve, the snake and the apple, all that old testament stuff, they took it word for word.



I found out later that unfortunately, their version had a misprint. It was all based on 1 Corinthians 13: "Faith, Hope and Charity, and the greatest of these is Hope". Only their version read Faith, Hop and Charity! Can you imagine? It was bloody awful when we had soup for lunch as a starter!

arrry



Joined: 19/08/2008
Posts: 1235

Message Posted:
22/08/2010 23:52

Nice one Lem !!!!!!! Love it ! I wonder how different the Northern / Southern upbringing was in the 70's !!

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
23/08/2010 00:02

In the 70s played cricket at Happy Valley Episkopi (3 matches a week throughout the years including Sundays) and also play football matches often at the same venue in the Winter months. When in UK played 1st Division County Squash and 1 cricket match on Sundays. My family usually accompanied me in case I could not remember where my home was after all the sport. Also used to play in the Squash "B" team league once a week as practise for the 1st team matches and at a level where I might win. Prior to internet and Cyprus 44 used teleprinters which typed one character in arrears (could DC spell with that?) and spewed out yards of perforated paper which I used to put in a waste bin but I think the classified material was supposed to be filed in the Battalion's War Diary !

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
23/08/2010 01:05

Chris cant remember the year but our sundays pre www, steve wright in the morning, love songs, brekkie of crossants oj with a smidgen of champange, read all the papers, then go out to lunch with friends, one of us ivite the others back and so it went on. Monday hangover, go to work on tea, toast and panadol, those were the days my friend, i wish they never end, oh yes, those where the days xxxxx

erictheviking


Joined: 14/05/2010
Posts: 32

Message Posted:
23/08/2010 01:18

sat waiting for the power to come back on whilst drinking a cold beer cursing at the people round corner who insisted on running their geni all night

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
23/08/2010 12:13

Keith mess 13,

Wasnt sing something simple sung by the Mike Samms singers,

Paul.

jock1



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Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
23/08/2010 12:37

luxury....i had to get up from bed half an hour before i went to sleep..worked 8 days week..and all for 3 1/2 d

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
23/08/2010 13:03

Paul, re msg 24,

That's what I thought, but I 'Googled' it just to make sure - and the link that I found said the Cliff Adams Singers - but it looks as though I didn't go back far enough!

You're right - it was the Mike Sammes Singers - I wish that I'd trusted my memory more...

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
23/08/2010 13:12

Paul and Keith



Don't know if I'm missing something here (not difficult) but 'Sing Something Simple' was my Mum's favourite and we had to listen to it every Sunday evening. I am pretty sure it was Cliff Adams with the Cliff Adams Singers?? Just googled it and found no mention of the Mike Sammes Singers at all.



As I say, am I missing something?



Thanks



Jean

CarrieRBag



Joined: 23/12/2008
Posts: 1374

Message Posted:
23/08/2010 13:15

Hate Sundays... always have, always will but used to watch the Black and White Minsterals or Wakey Wakey, Billy Cotton. Played "shop" and just wished it were Monday!

Dusterbruce


Joined: 03/08/2007
Posts: 1125

Message Posted:
23/08/2010 14:33

Sunday evenings in Girne pre-www were spent walking on the harbour, maybe having a drink. In winter watching the only available TV station which was TRT1. If you were lucky and could receive it you could watch CBC1 which was just as grim.



Sundays in 1950's UK was lunch listening to Family Favourites, Billy Cotton, Goon Show, Meet the Huggets. Evenings was Sunday Night at the London Palladium and bed at 8pm as I had school on Monday.

Dusterbruce


Joined: 03/08/2007
Posts: 1125

Message Posted:
23/08/2010 14:36

Oh, and no-one EVER went shopping or hung washing out on Sundays. It just was not done in 1950's/1960's.

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
23/08/2010 14:41

My mother came from Stornaway Isle of Lewis and I can remember as a child going there on holiday, the meals were prepared Saturday evening for the Sunday, we couldn't go out to play or listen to radio (no TV) if we even spoke it was the evil eye.



And to add insult to injury my dad couldn't get a pint as they weren't allowed to sell alcohol on Sundays!



Grandparents and Aunts just sat and read the bible and went to the kirk!



Chris