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Dawnie was lucky - she had taps on her bath - we had a tin bath which hung on a nail on the outside of the cottage!!! :-D

Mornings was Sunday School then home to a Roast lunch. Dad washed up & I'd wipe. He used to make me practice my Times Tables!

In the afternoon they'd work in the garden & I'd normally go round to a friend's. Some times my friend and I would go for a bike ride with jam sandwiches and 2d for an emergency phone call. Other times we'd go to the woods and make 'Camps', perhaps meeting up with some others in our class. If we were unlucky, we'd have to take her younger sister.

As Dawnie mentioned, Sunday was bath night and clean pyjamas!

I can remember my father cooking Sunday breakfast, then Mom preparing lunch whilst we all listened to the Omnibus of The Archers and Desert Island Discs( I still do this today). I often think about these Sunday mornings. We would usually walk to Grandmas house and play in the garden with our cousins then home for lunch. After lunch and washing up my sister and I would have to sit and read whilst my parents used to go to fall asleep.

Sunday nights was bath night always made sister have the tap end. Usually homework to do or playingin woods with friends or a drive with me and sister taking turns telling dad which way to go. Later we had boats so weekends would often be spent at boatyards.

My Mumwas quite strict re Sundays, No board games, no cinema, no knitting or needlework. I was allowed to play out in the garden and I used to read a lot in the mornings and we did listen to radio. In the afternoon it was Sunday School right up until almost when I got married as I was a Sunday School teacher. Sunday roast was at 12.30 always, then tea at about 5pm and in the evening after I was about 12 it would be church. Didn't mind that as our church was the nearest to HMS Collingwood so we uased to get all the RN lads there :-D Sometimes Mum would have several of them to tea. :-D :-D :-D :-D

after Sunday lunch we would go over the fields at the side of our cottage, taking a picnic and staying there for hours -because we lived in an idyllic spot on the side the mountain we used to get family visiting and Mum got fed up providing tea for everyone, so that was our solution :-D :-D

Dear All

Hello

Remember when all the shops were shut on a Sunday?

Have you a favourite memory of spending Sunday, maybe at museums, visiting family or friends or something else that made the day special?

Or did you catch up with homework at school or panic at the prospect
of work on Monday?


Take gentle care
With many good wishes
Love Elizabeth, EOS
xx