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| Behemoth |
Catching a MilkmanAt 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? |
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| judith |
Yellow Pages?
But I prefer the idea of the 5 am Wee Willie Winkie act myself 
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| Jonnyboy |
Find a house nearby that has milk bottles outside and ask to put a note in their empties. | ||||
| Behemoth |
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. |
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| Jonnyboy |
Stick a big sign on your lawn then, unless it's Pat Mustard you should be OK. | ||||
| ele |
Perhaps try putting your postcode into these?
http://www.milkdeliveries.co.uk/doorstep/ http://www.expressdairies.co.uk/deliverystart.asp |
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| tahir |
We had the same problem, we had to find someone else that uses him and tell them to get him over. | ||||
| Behemoth |
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. |
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| Behemoth |
Momentary excitement Postcode entered Disappointment delivered Thanks 
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| Will |
We get ours from Dairy Farmers of Britain - what used to be the Co-op. www.dairyfarmersofbritain.com | ||||
| judith |
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 |
Was that the trees a-rustling,
Or the hinges of the gate, Or Ernie's ghostly gold-tops, a-rattling in their crate... |
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| ele |
whose other site is http://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  )
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| tahir |
Had a free sample of St Ivel "Omega 3 enriched" milk yesterday, added fish oils, hmmm tasty. | ||||
| ele |
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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| tahir |
Dunno, we gave it to the kids 
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| Will |
How much is the organic? |
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| ele |
I don't know  ... I spend about £25 per month and that's for 13 pints a week so I guess approx 50p a pint?
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| sean |
Has it made them noticeably more intelligent? Free-er from arthritis? Whatever fish oil's supposed to do this week? |
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| tahir |
Well our 3 year old is currently studying for her MSc, is that unusual? |
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| Sarah D |
Look in the yellow pages or similar under "Dairies", then phone them; at least one will deliver in your area.
We have Rachel's organic in cartons, 62p per pint. This supllements our Manor FArm organic at 85p per litre from the farmshop. Our milkman sells a lot of other stuff as well - eg sacks of local potatoes at 4.25, decent size ones for baking. |
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| tahir |
We get Rachels too, wish they'd put it in bottles, or bigger cartons, poxy things. | ||||
| Sarah D |
I can re-use a lot of the cartons for the freezer, plants, soap moulds etc, but would prefer the glass bottles; also the cartons are almost impossible to open neatly and sensibly without squirting half the contents all over the kitchen
If I don't re-use them, I burn them. |
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| tahir |
But they've got plastic bits haven't they? They are terrible to open. |
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| wizz |
we get deliveries 3 times per week from a small independant - (we're in quite a rural, relatively isolated spot) I asked them to let me have a list of the the other things they deliver a while ago but unfortunately one hasn't been forthcoming... despite a note promising one!
- their loss, but a bit dissapointing wizz |
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| Sarah D |
Yes, but they burn in the Rayburn; I'm sure it's nto enough to cause harm; better than landfill. I can usually manage to re-use them for something. If they are well washed, you can use them for the freezer successfully for soup and sauce, etc. |
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| Andy B |
Mr B chasing the milkman around in the we small hours, Hmmm scary. Stick with Tescos sound safer for all concerned ! | ||||
| Behemoth |
I fianlly caught him this morning, in the act as it were, delivering milk to my neighbour at No. 6.
"Can you add a delivery No. 12 to your round?" I asked "No I'm not taking new customers" he replied, got back on his float and drove off. Gumf  We're talking terraces here, not houses with big gardens and long drives. I paced out the additional time it would take him from float to door and back again. 10 seconds.
Back to Morritescoburysda. |
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| JB |
We have a local milkman again after a long time without. The only problem is that we don't get through much milk so when he comes around touting for new customers we always end up saying what else does he deliver, at which point he promises to drop a full list through the letterbox next time he's passing and that's the last we see of him until the next time he touts for trade. | ||||
| Jonnyboy |
Ours comes at the dead of night, three times a week.
We pay 42p a pint for standard full fat milk, what does everyonme else pay? |
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| Nick |
Our milkman delivers at 4 in the afternoon and is a grumpy bar steward. So, I shop at a shop, instead of buying gently sun-warmed yoghurt from a graceless wretch. There's a dairy 200m up the road from me, and I could get it from there, I suppose, but that would be ILLEGAL and KILL me, presumably due to a lack of fish oil, or something. | ||||
| Bugs |
It's not illegal - they might not do it, or possibly not have permission, but it is possible to get it direct legally, we looked in to it last year I think, but there's nowhere near us (in fact there's very nearly nothing of interest near us, apart from a number of vineyards, and you can't put a dry white on your corn flakes. Well, you can, of course, but you would probably then have more fun at work than you're supposed to. |
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| Nick |
Oh, several of the local (older) people grab a jig each morning from there. I'm sure if we asked nicely, he'd slip us a jug. He doesn't look the type to be bothered by a bit of paperwork... | ||||
| Silas |
Re: Catching a Milkman
You are SO lucky! We have a milkman that delivers to our street. He drives the noisiest diesel engined flatbed transit you could imagine and leaves the damned thing running outside our house whilst he re-arranges his load. All this at about 4.00am! I have asked him in the past to do something about it, but he won't so I and the other 6 houses ( with the exception of one) have stopped using his services and buy our milk now from - yes, Tesco. Sadly, our one neighbour is perpetuation the nuisance of this man, but we are trying to get her to see sense. I have asked |
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| Tensing |
My kids loved "Clever " Milk |
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| Mary-Jane |
Did you hear that on 'Desert Island Discs' on Radio 4 the other day? I was howling with laughter and singing along to it and had a client in the car with me at the time. She turned to me and said "Mary-Jane, I don't know what's more worrying - the fact you're laughing at Benny Hill, or that you know the whole bl**dy song off by heart!" Gulp.
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| Mary-Jane |
We're so lucky to have a plethora of milkpeople (some are women) in our area, all of whom are very nice indeed, all drive battered old pick-up trucks which are not in the slightest bit intrusive and all deliver milk from local dairies at a very reasonable hour and reasonable price. (Our milkman came round to settle up the other evening and had a stroll around the kitchen garden and polytunnel with me). Mind you, our neighbours Roger and Helen across the lane go one better and bring their milk back from the farm (where Roger works as a stockman) fresh from the cows in a lovely old tin pot each morning. And it's yummy. |
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| Purple Martin |
It seems funny to me that your milkmen deliver in the mornings. Here in Oz they deliver in the evenings. I think the reason is so that there is no chance of the milk being left outside in the heat all day if you go to work early. | ||||
| hedgewitch |
Makes sense. In the winter here in the UK, I often get up to milk frozen in the bottles - which freaks out my mate in Oz
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| Nanny |
just as a question, how do you pay the milkman then?
we used to have the milkman in my previous life and i never saw him to pay him and ended up owing them loads of dosh it hads always put my off since |
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| hedgewitch |
We now have a bill put on the step once a month and I post a cheque off. They do collect on a Friday evening, but we were never in, hence the bill... |