I have always loved Saturdays; a whole day to yourself and the promise of another one on Sunday! Heaven. I got to thinking about what Saturdays have meant to me over the years. When I was a kid it usually meant Saturday morning TV, cartoons on the sofa in my PJ’s. When I was a bit older Saturday meant piano lessons at an ungodly hour of the morning and then study for my Leaving Cert after. When I was in college Saturday meant cleaning bedrooms in the Devon Inn Hotel. For my first few years of working Saturday meant sleeping. About a year or so ago, Saturday came to mean a trip to the Milk Market and now it means Milk Market followed by Yarn stores (Lena’s and Singer’s) and probably Hickey’s and then Eason’s/O’ Mahoney’s for himself. Home to drop off the purchases and make some lunch and then back into town for Stitch ‘n’ Bitch! So my Saturdays these days are all about great food and crafts.
What about you? What do Saturdays mean to you? Are you a late sleeper or an “up and at ‘em” Saturday person?
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Saturdays when I was young were spent in the kitchen with my mother baking, cooking and even more baking! We had more traffic (visitors) than a rush hour Dart train every weekend.
In my single working years I went to town for the meat, veg etc. and carried all the way home. No wonder I have very long arms!
Now Saturdays are like the other six days of the week. When health and weather allow I go out, if not I content myself at home.
By Grannymar on 08.15.08 12:44 pm | Permalink
Saturdays are now either about sleeping in and then shuffling around in my PJs for ages or getting up and going off into town. This weekend, it’s a much-needed haircut, a trip to Temple Bar Market, followed by a nice lunch somewhere as a treat.
When I was a kid, it was cartoons - or we were forced out of bed to go walking in the Yorkshire Dales (something I would definitely appreciate now!). During my teenage years, it was about meeting my best friend in town for a gossip, looking for REM records and volunteering in an archeological resource centre. Just before I moved over, it was a trip along to the Farmers Market in Edinburgh, followed by a good wander around the shops and down to the bakery to buy yummy goods. And that’s my plan for next Saturday, as I’ll be going over for the weekend. Hurray!
By jen on 08.15.08 2:31 pm | Permalink
saturdays are for a little sleep in (9 AM ish) and then either food shopping, or dance rehearsal, or catching up on my knitting, and a movie in the evening with the boy. i love saturdays.
i am not on bebo, where is the stitch’n'bitch on saturdays?
By tatoca on 08.15.08 2:36 pm | Permalink
Grannymar, I think maybe saturday’s a bigger deal when you’re in the 9-5 world…most people I know live for them. Kind of sad really, if we had jobs we loved maybe saturday’s wouldn’t seem like such a big thing.
Jen, I never went to the farmers market in Edinburgh and I’m sure I was there on a saturday last year…my friend has just moved there so maybe when I visit her.
Tatoca, I’m not on bebo either and the link works for me as it’s a public profile but anyway, it’s on in Limerick, in Leamy House (Hartstone Street) at 2pm. You’re in Dublin yes? This is Knit in Blackrock run Knit Nights as far as I know but I’m not sure on times etc.
By Marian on 08.15.08 2:48 pm | Permalink
Saturdays for me when I was little was the early morning cartoons too
now it means value time with himself if im not working, we will go to the market too and sometimes head out to a random someplace and take photos untill our bellies grumble, our weekends are very spontanious 
By Lette on 08.15.08 3:50 pm | Permalink
Ah… for me, it’s either knitting in my pyjamas catching up on podcasts or getting stuck into it teaching knitting and crochet classes at This is Knit. I’m not sure which I enjoy more, honestly! Knitting has almost become my substitute for early-morning cartoons… I hop out of bed all excited to keep working on a project
By Aileen on 08.15.08 4:26 pm | Permalink
Edinburgh Farmers market is over by the Castle, at the West End of Princes Street, 9am til 1pm. They do a pretty mean roast hog roll too - although I’m dying to try out the Limerick version too!
By jen on 08.15.08 5:07 pm | Permalink
Lette, see you tomorrow maybe?
Aileen, I wish I was in dublin, I’d love to do a knitting class, I can’t find one in Limerick. Funnily enough, there is a crochet class though!
Jen, it’s so yum, you’ll have to come to Limerick soon for a visit. Everyone should come to limerick on the friday night before the blog awards…plan?
By Marian on 08.15.08 8:07 pm | Permalink
My Saturdays vary depending on whether they’re childfree or not. With child it’s pretty much a pj day, unless it’s term-time and then I’ll have class from 9.45 til 4pm every 2nd Saturday. Urgh.
Tomorrow it’s childfree so it’s to Wild Onion for coffee and brekkie
Yay! Followed by a stroll to wherever I please or a car trip to Windy Gap with my father & the hound. Knitting & crochet will be worked on before, during & most likely after Stitch’n'Bitch. See ya there! 
When I was a kid we lived in the middle of nowhere & my father was into early rising. So we got a lot of quality tv watching in. Batman!! Nanananana Batman!! was the order of the afternoon. Tee hee.
Depending on the time of year we got harangued into picking blackcurrants, goosberries and raspberries off the fruit plants in our field. Ate half of them of course. Baked, made jam, drew, painted, read, hung out with the dog, visited relatives, stayed with our Limerick city gran overnight. Saturday was pretty much about doing ’stuff’ we didn’t get to do during the week in school.
By Lou on 08.16.08 12:52 am | Permalink
Saturdays always have more routine about them than Sundays for me. I get up, loll about the house for a while then around 11.30 (ten minutes time:-)) walk to milk market. Used do the whole wild onion thing years ago but with a three year old as my shopping companion, I don’t visit there as often now (tables aren’t that suitable). Occasionally now will go to Cafe Noir instead.
Then pick up Irish Times and guardian and home for a leisurely lunch. Looking forward to it now.
By Shane on 08.16.08 11:22 am | Permalink
Lou, I loved that Batman, Adam West was a legend.
Shane, The Wild Onion is fantastic, but saturday’s are just so mental in there, we tend to go to Cafe Noir now too!
By Marian on 08.17.08 2:54 pm | Permalink
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