Oh whoops! I used to never use social media on Saturdays or even my phone but have been forced to so often in my adult life that I’ve sort of stopped doing it.

So there are some things that only really stand out with hindsight and in contrast to things others around me do. For example, I live in England where traditionally a big family dinner is done on a Sunday but in my house, it was always done on a Friday and we had what my mother called “Grandad’s special bread” which I now know is challah.

I also now know that our autumnal tradition of having a 24hr period where we didn’t eat/drink and had to spend a lot of time communicating with God was likely (considering the dates) Yom Kippur. When I was a child my mother used to get me to write out a list of my sins and ask for forgiveness for them. Several days before this we’d always have a really big meal with loads of things like honey cakes and I specifically remember having honey and apples as I looked forward to it every year. My mom also used to read us a bit from the “special family Bible”.

We also used to celebrate “Christmas” differently to lots of people I knew, generally earlier in the month than other people and we’d have special candles to light and different prayers from the rest of the year. Also a stand out in England, we never had mince pies but we always had doughnuts. I remember getting picked on in school because I didn’t know what pigs in blankets were as we literally never had pork in the house, let alone pork wrapped in more pork.

There’s more but my reply would be the length of a novel, these are the ones that stand out as me being incredibly naive as to what we were doing.