This Sunday is a major American holiday, and I’m looking forward to having a cookout with family while hoping that the heat and walking don’t zap me so much that I can’t enjoy myself. I’ll be decorating on Friday, cooking on Saturday, and then sitting back and relaxing (hopefully!) on Sunday.
That made me wonder what the rest of you are going to do. It’s just a normal Sunday, so will you do anything differently from the other days of the week? Do you have specific habits or activities that only occur on Sundays?
Hi NM, i alwasy have to make a roast dinner on sunday only time i cook. its easy peasy for me i use a hallogen to cook a roast chicken, and potatoes (frozen variety), and frozen parnsips, and 3 different veg and gravy. Its a tradition for me as it was the only meal my husband would really eat with veg in it and every sunday was OUR DAY.
SO no matter how i felt i would make him his favorite but it was with beef as he wouldnt eat chicken lol. (i had a piece of chicken i wont eat beef lol).
then we would spend all afternoon just together no visitors allowed.
so that is my Sunday. Also Sunday brings back a lot of memories from growing up as mum being Italian sunday was very important to us as a family and we would sit for hours at the dinner table.
Sunday for me is my heart day where I can just sit and relax and enjoy some lovely memories and whilst i am trying to eat the meal i made myself the smells trigger more memories and it makes me feel content and happy. xx
enjoy your 4th July celebrations.
I miss those Sunday dinners! We were a church-going family, but that kind of fits in with school. Just move on; nothing to see here. But the “after” was the best part. Everyone would gather at my grandparents’ house. Homegrown meats, giant pots of mashed potatoes and noodles in broth, several vegetable dishes, homemade bread and fruit pies. Every week, every holiday. I’ve never stopped missing that. It would be standing-room only in the kitchen, and the men seated at the table never realized that we women had the best spots – We stood beside the stove and picked the best parts for ourselves!
And you have frozen parsnips?! I am definitely moving to England. I tried (in vain) to grow some this year, because I love them, but just finding any in stores is difficult and they cost over 3 USD for 1 or 2 woody roots. I have to limit them and turnips to special occasions.
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This Sunday it will be fish and chips at the seaside with my Mum. We’ll sit on a bench and watch the world go by, if it rains we’ll sit in the car. I feel sorry for Mam (90) she likes to walk but won’t without me so the bench it is 
We don’t have the usual Sunday Roast every week any more, sometimes we’ll have a salad, other times a casserole or a trip to the seaside for fish and chips, sometimes we will have a takeaway roast dinner. It all depends how I am that particular week and if my grandchildren are with me. COVID has put an end to going to the local pub for Sunday Lunch!!
Have a fab July 4th, try not to wear yourself out 
Jan x
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Sunday - up later, listen to The Archers, bacon roll, phone off by 2 and family time nobody else included until Monday. Although that is usual Sunday but this week depends on England’s game tonight!
Thank you all! You’ve given me some pretty visions to hold in my head for the bad days. Jan, is your seaside one where you can dip your toes in the water, or is it strictly “sit and look at it”? Either way, i envy you the view!
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Hope you had a happy 4th of July. We spent the afternoon dodging showers of rain, gave up so drank coffee and ate amazing carrot cake. Mmmm
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It was great, Mick, thank you! But I do wish we’d declared our independence in October or April. After 4 hours, I barely made it back to the house and then crawled straight in bed for 90 minutes! And we were in the shade the whole time with a nice breeze!
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It’s the North Sea so just a tad cold my granddaughters go for a paddle but it’s a long time since I did. We have some lovely beaches along the coast line where I live, as children we would jump on the train and in 20 minutes we’d be building sandcastles and braving the cold cold sea but when your kids you don’t care.
Hope you had a lovely day yesterday.
Jan x
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LOL. I bet it’s beautiful, though! Do you know if it looks anything like the coastline in the US state of Maine? I saw it once when I was little, and it’s been stuck in my head ever since. I’d love to get back there.
If I turn left at the end of my street part of the coastline backdrop would be industrial, go the other way and all you can see for miles is the sea, cliffs and the North Yorkshire moors. Here’s a couple of googled images for you.
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For the quizzers amongst us a little fact for you, in the UK we are never more than 70 miles from the sea! That would be East to West not North to South 
Norasmum I’ve just googled Maine coastline and it looks stunning.
Jan x
amazing photos wow it looks so lovely, i have never really gone to that coast. I lived in wigan years ago we went to southport as my first husband his grandfather had a care home there, and we went to blackpool and the lakes.
thanks for sharing. x
James Herriot! I fell in love with his books in my early teens, and then someone got me a picture book of the Yorkshire scenery. I was convinced that I wanted to become a vet because of it.
I have yet to see photos of England that aren’t beautiful. Well, not the nightlife in the cities. But at least your cities have old buildings that you respect and take care of. We just knock everything down and build new monstrosities.
Thank you, Janhhh!
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I loved the James Herriot novels, I might just read them again when I’ve worked my way through John Grisham’s………don’t ya just love the Libby App 
Jan x
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Listening books £20 per year for disabled users… just saying 
