Sunday Evening

[Artem]

How do you normally spend the end of a Sunday? Is it a dreadful feeling before Monday or just a regular day? Do you have any routine to prepare for the week ahead?

[Szykneij]

How do you normally spend the end of a Sunday? Is it a dreadful feeling before Monday or just a regular day? Do you have any routine to prepare for the week ahead?

When I was working, I'd make sure I had clothes ready for the week, review my teaching scheduled and planbook, and go to bed early. Now that I'm retired, it's just like any other day. On this particular Sunday evening, I'm listening to a local radio broadcast of the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood featuring Yo Yo Ma playing Elgar's cello concerto.

[Spotted Horses]

Monday is my favorite day of the week, so late Sunday night there is some giddy anticipation. Friday evening is the most depressing time of the week.

[pjme]

I'm retired. Sunday evenings can be nice, or not 
Dutch TV has (between july 24th and august 28th) a very interesting series called "Zomergasten" - "Summer guests", a 3 hour long "ideal TV evening" of carefully chosen  guests: https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/zomergasten.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjw3eeXBhD7ARIsAHjssr9ZQZru4ce_JQUIEvcNuPWWsk4AcfxUiPZqd29qCKYhkG6Zhv2KUIAaAoMwEALw_wcB
The guests make a personal selection of fragments of films, documentaries, performances, concerts, ....reflecting on history, actuality, psychiatry, art, their own lives...
The evening is rounded off with a film.
It makes (usually) for a most interesting long sunday evening.

[SimonNZ]

Every second week Sunday is the first day of night shift.

[Artem]

Monday is my favorite day of the week, so late Sunday night there is some giddy anticipation. Friday evening is the most depressing time of the week.

You don't enjoy weekends? Or just the evening of a Friday?

[vandermolen]

There's was a fine old Tony Hancock programme focusing, to some extent, on what Sundays were like in my childhood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZ356fa7AM

[Irons]

There's was a fine old Tony Hancock programme focusing, to some extent, on what Sundays were like in my childhood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZ356fa7AM

"I thought my mother a bad cook but at least her gravy moved about!"

[LKB]

Motile gravy? Hard pass, l think...

Then again, there was my dear aunt who was the gentlest, most good-hearted person imaginable. She introduced me to Schubert's Great C Major Symphony, and loved opera.

But her cooking was, tbh, so removed from any positive characteristic as to be a sort of natural wonder, like the La Brea Tar Pits: dangerous to the ignorant or unwary. 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

There's was a fine old Tony Hancock programme focusing, to some extent, on what Sundays were like in my childhood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZ356fa7AM

"I thought my mother a bad cook but at least her gravy moved about!"

Motile gravy? Hard pass, l think...

Then again, there was my dear aunt who was the gentlest, most good-hearted person imaginable. She introduced me to Schubert's Great C Major Symphony, and loved opera.

But her cooking was, tbh, so removed from any positive characteristic as to be a sort of natural wonder, like the La Brea Tar Pits: dangerous to the ignorant or unwary. 

Am enjoying the radio program.    And, yes, the gravy comment (and the half a pound of flour) were quite amusing.   Thankfully my mother (who did 99% of the cooking) was a good cook.  Dad helped by cooking (grilling) things like steak and hamburgers.  I did enjoy reading the Sunday newspaper.   

PD

[vandermolen]

I like reading the Sunday newspapers. Usually we'll go out for a walk in the countryside on a Sunday. My wife tends to go to bed earlier than I do so I may have a glass (or two) of red wine and listen to my music or watch the news or read a book or play with the cat. I don't teach on a Monday so lesson preparation can be left until later in the week. When I taught full-time I'd invariably have to do preparation on a Sunday night.

[foxandpeng]

Sundays here have recently returned to being a more reflective and spiritual day than they have been in recent years. I am glad for it. Years ago, Sunday was the busiest and most draining day of my entire week, and although I don't miss that so much, I have valued something of the existential refreshment that I remember as being so restorative. It is a bit more of an oasis than the intervening period, whether out and about with family or friends, or simply with books and music. I am sufficiently far away from retirement to make it feel like it will be a positive thing when I actually do lay down the grinding necessity of Mondays....

Hoping that brisk, autumnal days will pick up some of the love that emerges at this colourful turn of the year. I will miss the summer with the long evenings and warm sunshine, but it has a welcome beauty that is hugely positive.