Sunday night was bath night....

[George 1978]

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JUST A SQUIRT OF FAIRY LIQUID MOST TIMES HOW DID THAT EFFECT YOUR SKIN ETC.

My parents used to use that New Pin (?) washing up liquid in those huge bottles that they used to put into old bubble bath containers, and that really confused me when I saw washing up liquid in bottles with "bubble bath" written on them - why were they washing plates and dishes with bubble bath, I wondered when I was younger.

Yes, Matey bubble bath - although as my skin was sensitive, I had to go for Infacare instead. For old times sake, I put some in a running bath a few years ago, and the smell of it brought back so many memories of a child some 20 odd years before.

Mind you, now you have mentioned Matey, I might just add that on my Tesco online Christmas shopping list...

[darren]

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JUST A SQUIRT OF FAIRY LIQUID MOST TIMES HOW DID THAT EFFECT YOUR SKIN ETC.

WAS IT CAUSE MATEY WAS EXPENSIVE THAT YOU DID GET THAT TREAT.

I was never allowed to have Matey. Most of the time we didn't even use proper bubble bath. It was usually a squirt of washing up liquid.

[George 1978]

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It's a lot easy to get into the transition from going to school to having a day off (Friday to Saturday), then it is to do the reverse of that (Sunday to Monday).

[Trickyvee]

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As a kid growing up in the Eighties in a dull backwater of a town, Sundays were always empty, dead days. Just whiling away the time before the school week started up the next day. Sunday teatimes were always a visit to my Grandad and Great Aunt. Being given a cup of weak, sweet tea in a light-blue plastic mug. And salad sandwiches, which I hated. It would be getting dark outside. On the TV would be something like Seal Morning, or Return Of The Antelope. Then something completely dismal and prosaic, such as Antiques Roadshow. And bloody Bullseye. When it was time to come home, the walk up the path was a head-clearing noseful of fresh air after an hour of cigarette smoke, parental gossip and sandwiches. You could usually catch the smell of a coal fire or a damped down garden fire most Sunday evenings, especially in winter. Most of the houses in the cul-de-sac were closed up for the night, with usually just a living-room light on and the dead, end of week gloom was everywhere. Once at home, there was no going back. A bath, with the radio on playing the Pepsi Chart Show was inevitable. As was school the next morning.


Sundays are indeed the long dark teatime of the soul.

The smell of garden fires, trudging up the road under the glare of orange street lights, cold air hitting my face after the 100 degree temperatures of my gran's overheated house. This was my Sunday teatime. i must have lived a hundred Octobers!

[Zincubus]

Sunday night was bath night....

I seem to recall watching Sunday Night at the London Palladium and Cannonball on Sunday evenings .. and a few years later watching Onedin Line and loving how SLOW time seemed to pass watching it ... I hated school ..


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[Powdered toast man]

Re: Sunday night was bath night....

As a kid growing up in the Eighties in a dull backwater of a town, Sundays were always empty, dead days. Just whiling away the time before the school week started up the next day. Sunday teatimes were always a visit to my Grandad and Great Aunt. Being given a cup of weak, sweet tea in a light-blue plastic mug. And salad sandwiches, which I hated. It would be getting dark outside. On the TV would be something like Seal Morning, or Return Of The Antelope. Then something completely dismal and prosaic, such as Antiques Roadshow. And bloody Bullseye. When it was time to come home, the walk up the path was a head-clearing noseful of fresh air after an hour of cigarette smoke, parental gossip and sandwiches. You could usually catch the smell of a coal fire or a damped down garden fire most Sunday evenings, especially in winter. Most of the houses in the cul-de-sac were closed up for the night, with usually just a living-room light on and the dead, end of week gloom was everywhere. Once at home, there was no going back. A bath, with the radio on playing the Pepsi Chart Show was inevitable. As was school the next morning.


Sundays are indeed the long dark teatime of the soul.

[Twocky61]

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"So, in conclusion i'll just say it's nothing like back 'ome
And sometimes i'm regretful that i started out to roam
But i'll stay and I'll have a giggle as i civilize this 'ere lot
and i'll 'ave me bath each Saturday night
whether i need it or not"

[stud1al]

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"So, in conclusion i'll just say it's nothing like back 'ome
And sometimes i'm regretful that i started out to roam
But i'll stay and I'll have a giggle as i civilize this 'ere lot
and i'll 'ave me bath each Saturday night
whether i need it or not"

Willy the whinging Pom

[Twocky61]

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Not me

I was a felly smucker lol

Only joking lol

When I stayed at my grandparents late sixties Granny would sit me on the draining board in the kitchen where she would wash me

After that I used the bathroom. Afterwards I would get dressed in the lounge but shyly in front of the news reader on the TV. I thought they could see me lol

[marc]

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I was never allowed to have Matey. Most of the time we didn't even use proper bubble bath. It was usually a squirt of washing up liquid.

Just plain old soap for us.....

[George 1978]

Re: Sunday night was bath night....

Yes, I used to dread Sunday nights as a child - school in the morning, and all that. Sir Harry Secombe visiting the Grampian Television region on Highway.

But after a wash, there was That's Life! and Spitting Image, Hale and Pace, and Clive James or Tarrant on TV.

Sundays were so awful back in the 1980s - no shops open, omnibus edition of EastEnders, and other things. I am glad things have improved now.

[Trickyvee]

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I was never allowed to have Matey. Most of the time we didn't even use proper bubble bath. It was usually a squirt of washing up liquid.

[Mulletino]

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^ even worse when you're the youngest and go last, so that's your siblings dirt too!

[darren]

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ive 3 other brothers 2 are younger and we all got bathed on sunday nights.

Thing with a bath after you where about to get out the dirt in the water which was from the person having the bath the dirt floats in the water and when you get out you have some of it on you.

[DSCOMAN]

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maybe when younger it was Sunday...but then it was Definately Saturday Nights !
rota with siblings (and depending on coal fire heater getting temp hot enough "don't use all the hot water")....then watching Starsky and Hutch while rubbing dubbon on footy boots ready for next day's sunday league...where most of the time was spent as SUB. ;-(