Milk bottle tops

[loulou]

Does anyone know where to buy those plastic tops that go over the milk bottles so the birds cannot peck at the foil? 

[MayRae]

Try leaving some 2p coins out with a note asking the milkman to place a coin on top of each bottle. The birds cannot get past the coins.

[MayRae]

Or you could try using large yoghurt pots over the milk bottles.

Wash them out first though.

 

I haven't seen proper protectors for milk bottle tops for years, but your post did take me back and bring me some wonderful memories of my grandparents.

So I truly thank you for that Loulou. 

[oldspice]

We use those little Petite Filos tops on ours.

 

I did a recyling project with my On Track group this week and the fell about laughing when they heard we still have milk delivered.  They thought it was much easier to get it from the shops.  Then I started laughing. "What can be easier than rolling out of bed, opening the front door (get dressed first though) and finding the milk right there?"

oldspice2008-03-15 08:38:05

[loulou]

I love having fresh milk on the doorstep and I think it tastes much nicer from glass bottles than those plastic cartons.

[goldencup]

I agree Lou, and I also think it keeps better - as long as it's not on the milk float for hours in the sun before it gets delivered.

[loulou]

I am the only person in my street that the milkman delivers to.  Everyone I know says it is cheaper at the supermarket.  If I am running low on a weekend I will buy Cravendale milk from the supermarket.  That has a nice taste.

[oldspice]

We decided to keep the milk delivery because we worried that if everyone started to get rid of it, the old people round here would use a valuable service. Now, most of the old people have gone and everyone has three cars. We are the only ones still having the milkman in our little street.

[loulou]

I like that my mam has her milk delivered as she lives alone and when she is on holiday the milkman still goes into her garden and checks everything is ok and when she is at home he taps her window on a morning and asks if everything is ok.

We are the only ones still having the milkman in our little street.

 

Oooooooohhhhhhhhh, Missus!

[loulou]

I hated Benny Hill. Irritating little twerp.

Pipe down, Ben Elton.

[loulou]

I dislike Ben Elton too.

[oldspice]

Our milkman is not Ernie but Steve.  I've just realised what I wrote! No, I haven't 'had the milkman' in that way!

 

Lou, I think it's great that your mam's milkman looks out for her. It sounds as though the old community spirit is alive and well up north.

 

My dad was a milkman. He used to get gardening and carpentry work through his milk round as he delivered in a posh area and everyone trusted him.  He looked out for people too. When he died, many of his customers clubbed together and bought a wreath.

 

 

 

 

[loulou]

My milkman is only about 40 and I wouldn't have him.lol My mams is retiring this year and his 2 sons are taking over the business.  Oldspice does your milkman deliver orange juice, eggs, bread and yogurts too?