There's something about lie-ins that are simply indescribably wonderful. Sundays is the perfect day for a lie-in. Its warm, snug and sleepy. What's not to like. And since Sunday is the traditional day for doing nothing it makes perfect sense! Do you enjoy a lie-in or are you up and about early on Sundays?
Can't recall though if I had a lie-in as a kid. Saturday had its morning TV like Danger Island, Shazan and the Banana Splits show so I can't see me dawdling in my pit too long. Then again going to school for five days was quite knackering so I will have needed my kip. Sundays I had to go to church. Sacred Heart for the morning mass. My Mum took me. Took us all. I think it was 11 am. I yawned my head off so maybe I didn't get much of a lie-in after all. Getting ready will have taken ages! And besides I don't think there was anything to watch on TV at all on Sundays in the UK in the Sixties.
In my adult stage I require coffee after a lie-in. Lots of freshly brewed coffee. Eggs, bacon and buttered toast go really well with it too! Do you drink coffee and enjoy a hot breakfast at the weekends readers? Or are you healthy and go for muesli and yoghurt and maybe a kale smoothie?
What do you remember about weekend mornings as a kid readers?
To get into the spirit of an old style Sixties and Seventies Weekend morning here's a couple of YT clips to start Sunday properly! Enjoy!
Sundays seemed very different in the sixties and seventies. Town was a ghost town. There were no shops open. Even local corner shops shut by midday. Few people worked on Sunday. Suburban streets seemed quite except for the occasional sound of distant church bells, lawn mowers, passing kids on Chopper bikes and the summer time chime of ice cream vans. Sadly, somehow most that changed by increment, perhaps while I was enjoying one of those cosy Sunday morning lie-ins you mentioned. On the plus side I've adapted fast, becoming like Predator. Hot weather signals the hunting season... at least around the carboot, Woodsy :)
ReplyDelete'quiet'... not 'quite'... drrr :)
Deleteand this year it grows hot Tone! ha ha. Sunday was always a bit odd because School came on Monday. Friday night and Saturday felt like freedom!
DeleteMy memories of the weekend as a kid in the 60s. Saturday; Waiting for Grandstand to be over so Doctor Who would come on!
ReplyDeleteSunday; My Dad used to have coffee mornings on a Sunday morning and all his acquaintances from work and Antique Shop traders coming and chatting. Peter Purvis may have dropped by, but I definitely remember Drew and Jackie Henley (Pierce) long before the days of Blake's 7!
Wow! Celeb breakfasts! How cool is that Looey!
DeleteI most certainly did lie in at weekends, especially Sundays,as my family weren't overly religious.
ReplyDeleteI was given tea and toast in bed and my dad would pop to the newsagents for the Sunday papers and bring me back a copy of my favourite comic (The Beano and Whizzer and Chips as a child, Countdown as an older kid and TV Action as a young teen).
It would be mid to late morning before I got up and dressed, ready for the day ahead.
Mish.
mid to late morning! I like that Mish. I hope to relive my childhood lie-ins when I retire! And yep, comics were a real buzz back then.
DeleteNo morning TV Saturdays or Sundays in NZ in the 1960s or 1970s. Not sure when morning TV started, but it was much later. With no TV on Sunday morning there was a children's request programme on radio station 1ZB in Auckland. A couple of hours I think, perhaps 7am to 9am, but not sure about this. Stories and songs, later mainly just current music. No idea when this ended. Early evening meant Disneyland introduced by Walt Disney himself. I love a lie-in, but seldom get one - have to go to work. Tea rather than coffee, usually toast for breakfast - over 50 years of toast every morning. I like toast.
ReplyDelete5o years of toast! A great title for a book Paul. I must admit I'm unsure when Saturday morning cartoons started in the UK, which year.
DeleteBack again. Just watched the film clips - that Captain Scarlet ad certainly never screened in NZ, it was great. I remember the Banana Splits - they had the same 'zany' style as The Monkees. Seeing them in their buggies reminded me that someone did a kit of this. It was Aurora. The Banana Buggy was to 1:25 scale, and was released in 1969. According to Aurora Model Kits by Thomas Graham figures of the four characters were included, and the model could be finished as the vehicle driven by any one of them. Since the figures were all seated, so they would fit in the driver's seat, a park bench was provided for the three figures without a vehicle. A nice touch. This would also make up for the very small size of the real buggies. No reissue is mentioned, so it would be rare now.
ReplyDeleteI liked the Monkees too Paul. Like you say zany humour often speeded up by the editor!
ReplyDeleteWhere's the girl in the laundry basket playing ooh-blah-dee on a Bontempi guitar? I feel cheated of a memory here guys?!!!
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I thought she sang la la la la LAmerica Hugh!
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