What's your typical Saturday night?

I had pork stroganoff for dinner with a G&T which was my reward for a good old session in the garden which left me with that nice feeling of scruffy tired if there is such a thing a thing.
Now I’m watching Virgin River on Netflix, wondering whether to have another G&T or a glass of Malbec and wishing there was some chocolate in the house. 😩

NotAGran55

I’m not long back from watching my football team, and currently watching Chelsea v Newcastle on the TV with a glass of wine.
Chatting to my brother and sister on WhatsApp about my first grandchild born 2 weeks ago 👶 ❤️

Congratulations, NotAGran55, my first grandchild was born last October, it's a great moment. Is your grandchild a girl or a boy?
My husband sings in a men's group and he has a concert tonight so I'm home alone. It was nice to eat some leftover dhal with broccoli for supper, I wasn't very hungry and am trying to fight off a virus so will be going to bed early.
Usually we eat about 7pm, we take it in turns to cook, then we moan about the tv and wish there were still Nordic Noir or Spiral French tv series but settle happily enough for Alice Roberts or some similar historian or travel programme.
Quite likely we're glad to sit down with good book. I have a husband who stays up till 11 pm but I can't do that anymore, it's 10 pm to bed for me.
I don't miss those Saturday nights out but I miss the me who was bright and lively and had the energy to be out late.

This is such a lovely thread 💕Great to have a peek into your Saturday nights. There is a sense of well earned rest. Love and peace to everyone 💐💐

Alternate Saturdays for me are cards ,dominoes and Baileys with my wonderful neighbour / friend.Tonight it's just today's paper,tv and gin and tonic.
I tape all programmes to avoid the adverts and have just laughed out loud at Gogglebox from Friday.Anyone with Octopus Energy will enjoy the last ten minutes with Olivia Attwood. Just saying

Well I gave up on Casualty very quickly. I don’t know if it’s me or our television/reception but I just can’t hear it clearly. I think this is why I stopped watching it before. The sound seems distorted somehow. I’ve tried it with and without hearing aids and it was still bad. Finished my second glass of wine now and I’m off to bed with my kindle instead. Night night everyone.

Loved this thread. Nice tea something of a treat. Then tv then bed. Seems my rock and roll lifestyle has gone! 😂😂I f it ever started!

Lasagne and salad with glass of red, on the sofa accompanied by slightly smelly snoring spaniel next to me, soon to bed, fresh sheets and collected from library, latest Strike book, I’m a happy bunny😀

Just dremelled the dogs nails and she’s obviously forgiven me as she’s now snuggled up to me watching Bill Bailey on the tv.

I’ve just done our weekly family online quiz on Zoom, we’ve been doing it since lockdown, it’s become a tradition for any of us who are home on Saturday evening, and it’s always nice to catch up because we see each other in person infrequently.

Early evening I went to pick up DH and friend who had been to watch our local football team.
We picked up a takeaway on the way back.
DH now watching rugby, and trying to stay awake. I've been knitting.
We will watch the news then go to bed.
Very exciting 😀

We had stew and dumplings for dinner with a nice glass or two of Shiraz. Watched the Claudia chat show while Whatsapping my DD,as we hate Casualty and in bed by 9! I am still suffering pain from a fall last weekend!

Before children we were out on a Saturday, post children we had dinner parties with groups of friends. That seems to have died out now.
Now it tends to be just the two of us unless family come to stay.
I love a quiet life!

Well, I think our priorities change as we get older 😁. For me, gone are the days when I’d get dressed up ready to hit the town at a weekend. Great though they were then, I now relish weekend evenings in, enjoying a nice meal with a glass or two of wine and a film on the tv or some music on the CD player. Sounds boring, perhaps, but my desire to be hitting the town, (whatever the weather), are long gone.

Cooked myself a roast dinner this evening, the first for some years! It was quite tasty & lots of leftover chicken. I’ve been watching tv, very boring and am now in my nightclothes waiting for the electric blanket to warm the bed before I get into it in half an hour or so!
I had a telephone call from one of my daughters, which was nice.
Sorry you’re still suffering from your fall dragonfly and hope it improves soon.
Saturday nights are generally quiet now.

DD drove up from the south this afternoon and immediately changed, then out to a party. I have a humdinger of a cold and ate two sausage rolls I couldn’t taste, along with a Lemsip.

Now watching South Riding from 1974 on YouTube and love these old series (much more than new ones).

I do have regular ‘girls’ nights out in the city and bop around, so haven’t said goodbye completely to being out on the town💃🏻

Gammon with spicy wedges and green beans followed by natural yoghurt with a spoonful of home made jam. I should have been going to the folk singalong in the pub but I haven't gone as DH has quite advanced Parkinsons and I am getting anxious about leaving him home alone. He can't come with me as he wouldn't manage steps and I have difficulty getting him up from chairs. He has watched the rugby and I have been doing crosswords and scrolling Facebook. We are now watching Death in Paradise on iplayer, then I will get him into bed and have an hour catching up saved tv that I want to see.

Having lived the Spanish life for over 20 years, where I worked long hours, I became used to a siesta. I now follow the same routine, enabling me to stay up until midnight.

Usually out for 2 drinks. Back home and TV. Tonight was more exciting. DH will be 80 on Monday so we took daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter and her boyfriend out for an Italian meal. A great time was had by all.

We always go for our weekly shop at 5 pm and then bring a pizza back for dinner. After that we read the Saturday paper and supplements and bemoan the fact there is nothing to watch on TV. We watch the news and then go to bed. However, today I have only just come to bed having watched the two tennis semi finals from Indian Wells. They were tremendous matches thoroughly enjoyed by me. I am now going to do Wordle, read for a bit and hopefully then go to sleep for a few hours before waking again about 3:30. I like the idea of having some wine. I will have to include it in my routine.

I always went out on Friday and Saturday nights. Can’t remember the last time I got dolled up and went out.
We had cauliflower cheese, fried potatoes and vegetable sticks followed by lemon cheesecake.
TV till about 11pm. Dead boring but I did have a couple whisky macs.

Thanks for this great thread.

It would have to be watching The Good Old Days and singing along to Down at the Old Bull and Bush. I was quite disappointed last night as they were celebrating 25 years (1978) and went out with another favourite old song. I felt quite deprived!

Well, next Saturday, I will be involved in a meal out, with music, at a jazz club.
Well, actually, I'm babysitting to enable DD and SIL to enjoy the above.
Several of my pleasures nowadays seem to be vicarious!

There'll never be another Saturday night like last night's rugby! What a final! 🏉

Rocketstop2

“I'm laughing to myself as I wonder how many of us would hide behind the curtains if say 'Friends' arrived wanting to whisk us to a party. ??!! Young me would have been out of the door so fast I'd have sparks coming off my heels, me now :'Quick, hide' !!!”

Me too. Back in the day it would have been deemed a disaster if there wasn’t a party to go to or we would hold or attend dinner parties with friends (1970s). These days it’s such an effort to get dressed up to go out, although it is nice occasionally.
Last night we had a Dine In from M&S and both dozed through a recorded House of Games! We know how to live!

MartavTaurus

There'll never be another Saturday night like last night's rugby! What a final! 🏉

Forgot to say, 40 years ago I'd probably have been drunk on the Champs Élysées after such an event!