General Chat

As with others, Sunday was always special in our house. Church, main meal at lunch time, afternoon Sunday school, tea - usually including tinned fruit and evaporated milk! No washing or shopping......heaven forbid!!

These days however, although I rarely wash on a Sunday, I will do so if necessary. I refuse to go big supermarket shopping - I can do that in the week but will pop into the little one if I have forgotten something. I will also go to a nearby ice cream parlour with my daughter in the afternoon.

I am a big fan of keeping Sunday special but it's difficult in today's society.

I stayed with my aunt and uncle who had a farm when I was child, no washing or hanging anything on the line chapel at 11 then home to a roast dinner that uncle had been keeping eye on, he only milked the cows on Sunday's and in summer let out in the field chickens in and out. In the afternoon we would go off to one of many beaches sometimes aunties sister would join us with her family and my friend was allowed to come along. It was gods day and a day day of rest from all the hard word work of the past week <3 <3

My father's sister & her husband moved to the far north of Scotland in the late 1940s. The house they lived in was solid & secure, but the stone walls were not..... a cow got into the garden one day and tossed my aunt! So, uncle decided to repair the wall, and the only days he had to spare was Sundays.

Nobody in the village spoke to them for months!

Good Christians? :-S

I don't think my aunt would have hung out washing on a Sunday.... but repairing a wall so that your wife doesn't get injuried again?



Maybe that's one of the reasons they emigrated to Canada :-) :-S

No washing on Sundays in our house.

Church in the morning, plus Sunday School.

Sunday dinner, with all of us sitting around the table. Dad went to the pub 'for a pint' just before dinner. Brought back ice-cream wrapped in newspaper, to keep it cold, with a bottle of lemonade and cream soda.

Sunday afternoon watching the tv, usually a film with Fred and Ginger.

While the religious programme were on, it was hair-washing and a bath, ready for school.

Then Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

Am I showing my age?

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I would wash when I felt like it Sunday or not :-D :-D
When I was young washing day was always Mondays :-D


My washing day OCD is that the pegs have to be in the right colour order :-( :-(

Here in Switzerland It is still forbidden to wash on a Sunday.

It is funny that even when I worked full time and had two young children I still wouldn't hang out the washing on a Sunday, indoors yes but never outside.

Round here in the summer if you hung it out it would come in smelling of BBQs :-(

Personally I love the smell of washing that has dried outside in the sunshine :-D

Chris

Things were more regimented and strict when I was a child.
Monday's was wash day,Tues Ironing etc.
Sunday ..went to church in the morning and Sunday school in the afternoon...best clothes so no playing out...and certainly no washing on the line.
We had a ceiling rack in the kitchen that clothes were put on if Monday was wet.
Clothes were washed in the zinc tub and possed....a northern word....rinsed and mangled.
I think life was more ordered in my time and there was a lot more respect around...and we didn't have much money,but nor did we expect everything either.

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My mum wouldn't hang out washing on a Sunday, as much superstition as religious observance, I think.

I do if it's a sunny day, my neighbours do as well.

My Welsh grandmother would not be happy. She was very strict about the Sabbath - I can remember not being allowed to play cards, even patience on a Sunday.

I remember a school friend dropping in on a Sunday and being shocked to find me playing Patience! (it was in a Scottish village in the 1940s, perhaps strict Presbyterian code?)

Didn’t the Bible say that we must work with the sweat of our brow for six days but, on the seventh day, we must rest. It should have gone on to say - ‘with the exception of MPs & Civil Servants who are required to work for five days only’.

But it didn’t & they do! Mothers were not specifically mentioned in the Good Book and, as ever, they stuck to their own rules anyway.

Every home – except the very posh ones – had an indoor clothes line, sometimes over the open fireplace but frequently the length of the house, in addition to an outdoor one. As we became more sophisticated, we acquired those rotating lines on an aluminium pole that gave the full benefit of the wind and only took up a corner of our precious garden instead of blocking the entire view of the vast horizon.

There is also the fold-up clothes drying rack – still popular in town apartments in particular, where you’ll invariably see them out on the balcony. And there was a guy on a TV Show many years back who came up with a rotating clothes line that also had a huge plastic cover over it – so that you got the benefit of the wind but not the inconvenience of the rain. And rain is always inconvenient. :-D

My mother always did the washing on a Monday, and we loved Mondays because we had egg and chips for dinner (now called lunch :-)), instead of a "proper" meal.

We had to do quiet things on a Sunday, but were allowed to play cards except when my grandparents came to stay, when we kept out of the way and were definitely "not heard" (or seen!!)

in Germany you are not allowed to hang washing out on a Sunday unless you have a very young child

God's Day Of Rest seems to fit with most of our experiences.

Sure, we'd need to eat, usually a Sunday roast, but there was no need to do unnecessary household chores.

The change probably came due to us living in a more secular society, far more women working full time and 7 day a week shopping. If Sunday is the only time someone has to do the laundry, and get it dry on the line, then that's what happens!

We were so bored on a Sunday at my grandmothers not being allowed to play out
we used to " pop" her fuschias. ;-) ;-) ;-)
At least "cats cradle " was quiet and could be hidden in a pocket :-D :-D :-D

I've just hung curtains on the line ( lol well you know what I mean) Sunday is the best day to hang washing out here when the noise from the park, mowers, cars etc makes quiet gardening, or even thinking, impossible.

I can't remember that my mum ever bothered, but I know my Nan hated Sundays and called it "a cussed day"...because despite it being the day of rest for others it was the day she had to clean the bank premises where my grandfather worked as they lived in the flat above.

A friend of mine, let a cottage in the land where her house is, the garden of the cottage couldn't be seen from her house, but she could partially see the garden when she went to her greenhouse. One Sunday the tenant put washing out on a Sunday, all hell broke loose, my friend was livid, so much so the tenant left, my friend lost a great tenant, all for a line of washing, madness :-0

I was told by a showman that you should never do washing on New Years Day because you would wash away a member of your family.

There is not much shooting around here but when I was a child and there was a bit, you would never hear it on a Sunday.

When my friends father, who had been a shepherd, died, we put a piece of a fleece he had had cured into his coffin with him. This was because it was traditional to put a whisp of wool into a shepherd's coffin so that God or St Peter or whoever was manning reception, would know why he was not always in church on a Sunday.

No, my mother would never have done washing on Sunday, never mind hang it out!! I used not to, but I do now, in fact there is some on the line right now as this is the last fine day for a while! I'm also going to mow the grass for the same reason!! I think it was Sunday being a day of rest that prevent these jobs in the past!!

Yes, it was something my mother would never do and I didn't do it myself for years but I do now as do my neighbours. Times have changed.