What's your typical Saturday night?

We don’t go out much but always try to make the weekends a bit special ( long time dead and all that!). We bathe/shower, get dressed in nice clothes. I put on jewellery and scent and we go downstairs to await our son who usually comes round for dinner.

The dining room table is pre set, we have olives and other nice ‘bits’ while we are waiting for the dinner to cook. We listen to ‘Live from the Met’ on Radio Three and open a bottle of (cheap) Champagne. I have two glasses throughout the meal and the DH has similar and moves on to a nice red. We always say, ‘Happy Saturday.’

We will have something moderately fancy but with the vegetables pre prepared as I’d rather be drinking fizz than slaving over a hot stove. We have a couple of nice chocolates to finish with.

When the DS leaves we throw everything in the dishwasher and retire to watch an episode of Scandi Noir on the laptop in bed.

It’s very silly and a bit pretentious but we love it.

Last Saturday we had caught an awful nursery bug from the DGD and didn’t eat a thing all day. We couldn’t get out of bed or bath or shower. We slept all day and all night.

So roll on next Saturday.

Since we have been obliged to restart work in our late 60's and have no extra for restaurants, cocoa it is!

We are not ready for cocoa and slippers. Today is my DH's 80th birthday. We have had a fabulous few days - restaurants, eating, drinking and fun with family. You're a long time dead.

Tend now to socialise mid-week and more daytime now.

It is not just us grans though. I did have cause to head down a city centre street recently. At 11pm it was fairly deserted. This same street was literally jumping with life 20 years ago when I was collecting my "clubbing" daughter. The traffic was greater than 11am then, but like a ghost now.

Brandy and babycham in the 70s
Oh yes, that was very popular, Mrren 😀
I haven't had one of those for many years.

I am on my own now, and although each day seems the same, I like to make an effort foodwise on a Saturday.

One of my favourite dishes is half a sirloin steak with trimmings. I dine around 7.30 pm. Sometimes I have a glass or three of wine. There is rarely anything on TV, but I do watch Casualty.

I like to shower, etc., around 11 pm, then go to bed to watch TV or read, switching off my light around midnight. That depends on the number of snoozes I have had. Not age-related, naturally drug-related. At 82, I am allowed to rest my eyes!

I am still up around 7 am most mornings. Not a riveting life, but I enjoy my own company.

Another past brandy and babycham drinker here Mirren. Until I began one Saturday night out drinking it but ended it on pernod and blackcurrant. Oh my !! Big, BIG mistake and one never repeated. Tee total nowadays 😇. Dont much enjoy nights out now unless its a gig, rather be home. More JOMO than FOMO.

Did you fall asleep, Mirren? 😂🤣

Don't think I ever really enjoyed a " night out " especially Saturday.
I liked to dance and the music ( still do), ) liked a drink ( lager and blackcurrant or Brandy and babycham in the 70s)but I have always loved to be in bed early .
Even when studying for A levels or uni exams I stopped at 9 pm and went to bed , preferring to rise early to study.
As a young Mum I was in bed and asleep straight after the children.
Now almost 70 , bedtime gets early .
I lov

Usually the same as most nights: hubby engrossed in wall-to-wall TV watching, me doing some sort of craft or other, or doom scrolling on the Internet on my phone! If I don't do 'something' I inevitably fall asleep in front of the TV!
However Saturday evening last week was a great change and a blast from the past - went to a daytime disco at a club in the town centre with a very sociable group from our gym 3pm til 8pm. It was an 80s night, so we all dressed up in variations of day-glo pink, green or purple accessories, some in leg warmers and tutu's. I lasted till the very end and a good time was had by all! We have more planned - I never thought I would be making a return to clubbing, albeit at an earlier time of the evening.

TerriBull

It usually involves some Saturday tends to be a curry night, but my son stayed Thursday in order to take me out for an early Mother's Day lunch Friday, I did one of his favourite curries Thursday. So instead tonight we will have M&S Chicken Kyiv with roast potatoes and vegetables, my o/h's choice, it must come from M&S though, no other supermarket version of that will do. Then we will find something to watch, not always the same thing. I started Channel 4's, 1st episode of a Women of Substance last night so may well continue with that. I suppose tonight is a fairly typical Saturday evening for us.

Waitrose do a fabulous chicken Kyiv. It’s from their No.1 range and is often included in a meal deal. It’s delicious 😋

I’m afraid we’re not rock and roll either. Pre children Saturday night would have been spent in the pub then busting moves at the local disco, once the children arrived it would be supper parties with local friends. Many have now moved away to be nearer their off spring so most Saturday nights are spent in front of the TV with a glass of wine and eating too much chocolate (me not my husband!). Love the evenings we do socialise though.

That's very sad, jakuss 🙁. Maybe you could try line dancing classes, ballroom dancing, U3A. You sound like you are still fit and able to enjoy dancing, getting dressed up and having fun. I'm sure your local library will have contacts that you might be interested in. There'll be other ladies in your position who would enjoy your company. Get out and enjoy yourself 🎉🥂💃

I would go to the pub every saturday night but I have no one to go with since hubby died, wardrobes of lovely clothes never worn anymore, my friends have died or are frail I wannabe sing, dance, laugh still

I cannot honestly remember when Saturday nights stopped being anything special.

Probably, when I was in my mid-twenties and had a job to go to fairly early on Sundays. Living on a low income, at that time too, so I could not afford to go out much.

Saturday evenings and nights are now much the same as any other day of the week. I make dinner, feed the cats, wash up, shower and wash my hair, either before or after the meal, do any odd jobs I do not want to leave until Monday, and make sure my bike battery and headlamp are fully charged so I can get to Mass and back easily, and with my bike lamps working on Sunday.

Read a book - but then I do that every day.

Exciting ? Not particularly, but it suits me.

When we can be bothered to go out we tend to do so during the week than join the crowds at a weekend 🤭 makes sense, cheaper food, less crowded venues...

We'd AC and GC round for dinner. Dog walk, bed at 11.

Some wine, an oven ready Charlie B meal to save cooking and scrolling through sites trying to find something good to watch on the TV and then probably falling asleep in the middle of it! Exciting times.

Most Saturday nights after dinner here will see dh up in his lair aka study, while I’ll be downstairs on the sofa knitting, probably with Classic FM on, since there’s so often nothing I want to watch on TV - can’t follow a plot AND knit anything that isn’t very simple. Also R3 if the ads on Classic are irritating me more than usual, but may have to switch back if they’re playing one of the no-melody things I’m not keen on.

I'm so glad I started this thread, thanks to everyone for commenting, it was lovely hearing what everyone gets up to and if they were happy with their evening.
It sounds like a lot of us could still 'Party' if we HAD to but are quite happy doing our own thing.
It's great not having to think what to wear to go out, making sure hair and nails etc all ok.
So many different stories, different lives and yet at heart we all enjoy just doing what makes us comfy and happy !

TheSunRisesInTheEast and Granatlast007 thank you both very much for your congratulations.
And of course congratulations to you too Granatlast007 🥂- do you have a DGD or DGS?
We have a beautiful little granddaughter.

Washerwoman

This weekend we had our little 2 year grandson to stay all day and overnight so hectic but enjoyable. So by the time we had got him bathed and in bed it was some red wine and the rugby.We ate earlier as I did a simple roast dinner and we ate with him.Already had some roast potatoes and leeks in cheese sauce from the freezer. I was shattered and went to bed at 9.30 leaving DH to sort the dog out.We rarely go out on a Saturday now unless we are meeting friends.That suits me fine.In my PJs as soon as we've had dinner. And if there's nothing on TV or catch up I do crosswords and puzzles. Exciting times!

I’d say lovely relaxing times!

I think most of us probably had enough excitement in earlier lives.

I’m more than happy in PJs and being in bed early!

DH's health cirumstances mean that he sleeps a lot, and he usually goes to bed around 8.00pm. I then have the evening to myself, which I uite enjoy.

I am in the process of decorating the house, which I usually do a wall at a time. This time it was two half walls, one over each of 2 open firplaces in the study and living room, then I tidied and sorted in the study and chose the picture to go onthe wall over the fireplace. Then I sat at my computer and surfed, did odd bits of household business.

I usally go to bed at 10.00ish, but I was wide awake so I sat and read until 11.30 pm, and when I got upstairs I decided to do a minor rearrangement of the bedroom furniture. having moved house 6 months ago and being busy doing it up . These minor rearrangements occur about once a week. DH cannot help much, but I can still do uite a lot.

I have never been much of a party animal, even in my youth, Not a hairwash and bed person either. I just prefer people in small numbers and for some reason friday night always played a bigger part in my life than Saturday night.

This weekend we had our little 2 year grandson to stay all day and overnight so hectic but enjoyable. So by the time we had got him bathed and in bed it was some red wine and the rugby.We ate earlier as I did a simple roast dinner and we ate with him.Already had some roast potatoes and leeks in cheese sauce from the freezer. I was shattered and went to bed at 9.30 leaving DH to sort the dog out.We rarely go out on a Saturday now unless we are meeting friends.That suits me fine.In my PJs as soon as we've had dinner. And if there's nothing on TV or catch up I do crosswords and puzzles. Exciting times!

I only go to bed before 10 if I’m ill. I’d be awake at 1am and that wouldn’t do.
Last night I was singing with my choir in a concert, so I was out from 11.45am till 10.30 pm. I was hungry so I had soup and toast and caught up with my emails etc. I went to bed about 11.45 and slept through till 6.45, so I was really pleased not to
wake up in the night.