Most working UK adults haven't had an actual weekend in years.
Saturday morning is the chore catch-up — the food shop, the laundry, the bins, the post, the things you didn't have the energy for during the week.
Saturday afternoon is the only real free time most people get all week. About 4-5 hours of it. It usually gets spent recovering from the morning's admin.
Saturday evening is dinner, telly, a couple of drinks, an early-ish bed because Sunday isn't going to be much easier.
Sunday is part chores, part dread. By 6pm you're already mentally on Monday. By 9pm you're laying out clothes and checking the alarm.
What people call 'a weekend' is, in practice, about 6 hours of actual leisure — fragmented into 30-90 minute chunks between admin, recovery, and pre-emptive Monday anxiety.
This is why working people in their thirties spend their twenties thinking 'this will improve when I'm earning more.' It doesn't — the shape stays exactly the same, only the cost of living it goes up.