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Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 10:02 am Post subject: Catching a Milkman

At about 5am (I think) I had to go sort my little girl out from the tangled mess she's got into with various soft toys and her duvet. Bunny could not be found! Once order was restored and she went straight back to sleep I was lying in the dark when I hear the whirr and chinkle of a milk float! Having be assured that no such thing existed our neighbourhood I'm keen to get a delivery. However I don't want get up at 5am around run around the streets in my socks and pants trying to flag him down.

Is there a better way?

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 10:06 am Post subject:
Yellow Pages? But I prefer the idea of the 5 am Wee Willie Winkie act myself

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 10:09 am Post subject:
Find a house nearby that has milk bottles outside and ask to put a note in their empties.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 10:15 am Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

Find a house nearby that has milk bottles outside and ask to put a note in their empties.

Good thinking batman - but everybody I've asked swears blind that he doesn't exist. No doubt while searching for empties I'll be accused of acting suspiciously and being a burgular.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 10:24 am Post subject:
Stick a big sign on your lawn then, unless it's Pat Mustard you should be OK.

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 814
Location: Derby

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 10:35 am Post subject:
Perhaps try putting your postcode into these? https://www.milkdeliveries.co.uk/doorstep/ https://www.expressdairies.co.uk/deliverystart.asp

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45505
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 10:36 am Post subject:
We had the same problem, we had to find someone else that uses him and tell them to get him over.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 10:39 am Post subject:
Lawn? Lawn! Grass is for posh folk with drives and garages and children with washed hair and stuff. The front of the house has no road, just a footpath, and the back of the house is a back street.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 10:41 am Post subject:

ele wrote:

Perhaps try putting your postcode into these?

https://www.milkdeliveries.co.uk/doorstep/

https://www.expressdairies.co.uk/deliverystart.asp

Momentary excitement
Postcode entered
Disappointment delivered
Thanks

Will

Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Posts: 571
Location: Grenoside, Sheffield

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 10:44 am Post subject:
We get ours from Dairy Farmers of Britain - what used to be the Co-op. www.dairyfarmersofbritain.com

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 10:48 am Post subject:
Are you sure that this wasn't some ghoulish Flying Milkman, condemned to cover his ghostly rounds in the streets of Leeds for ever more. All because he tried to whip an extra few pinta deliveries out of his already exhausted milk float.

Will

Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Posts: 571
Location: Grenoside, Sheffield

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 10:57 am Post subject:
Was that the trees a-rustling, Or the hinges of the gate, Or Ernie's ghostly gold-tops, a-rattling in their crate...

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 814
Location: Derby

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 11:03 am Post subject:

Will wrote:

We get ours from Dairy Farmers of Britain - what used to be the Co-op. www.dairyfarmersofbritain.com

whose other site is https://www.freshcoopmilk.co.uk/content/products.htm

I wonder if they do organic milk in glass bottles like the midlands co-op dairy used to? (now taken over by dairy crest who still do, except when I get a printed note of "too much demand, we can't buy supplies" and ordinary milk is delivered

)

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45505
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 11:11 am Post subject:
Had a free sample of St Ivel "Omega 3 enriched" milk yesterday, added fish oils, hmmm tasty.

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 814
Location: Derby

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 05 11:18 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Had a free sample of St Ivel "Omega 3 enriched" milk yesterday, added fish oils, hmmm tasty.

I didn't know they'd invented that, what did it really taste like?

, I wonder if its creation is partially in a reaction to the increase in organic milk sales which is perhaps due to it being found to have more omega 3 cos of the higher level of clover the cows eat?

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