The end of an era?
We have always had our milk delivered in glass pint bottles. This morning, there was a note attached to say that our milkman was retiring and so our milk delivery would be coming to an end.
It might seem a silly thing, but it really feels like it’s the end of an era, and it’s a bit depressing - I feel very old.
Are there changes which have had the same effect on others on the Ship?
It might seem a silly thing, but it really feels like it’s the end of an era, and it’s a bit depressing - I feel very old.
Are there changes which have had the same effect on others on the Ship?
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That's probably a bit niche...
When my neighbours moved out last autumn they forgot to cancel, so I can confirm that their orange juice is pretty good. I was quite tempted to sign up myself.
( my Dad worked in a Unigate dairy factory filling bottles in the 80s)
But I remember milk floats and the chinking crates. And free milk in primary school in the 1950s. In fact the whole postwar provision for healthier children (dear dead idealistic days) - there was powdered milk and concentrated orange juice and cod liver oil tablets and jars of sticky brown stuff that we took before bed.
And tops had to be put over the bottles to stop blue tits pecking holes in them.
Our glass bottle delivery only stopped when we moved house. They don’t deliver here. 😢
Also at some point electric kettles stopped being squat things with a plug point on the side and turned into tall jugs sitting on round base.
The end of an era in that regard was the change from electric milk floats to diesel trucks, which must have happened fifteen years ago. No doubt they will revert before long.
Our morning milk deliveries do indeed come on an electric vehicle these days
There was an intermediate phase of "tall jugs with plug point". The "easy to connect, put it on at any angle" round base used to be a selling point...
@Stercus Tauri I think the solution to envelopes is generally either a sheet of adhesive labels, or a window envelope.
The most common reason would be "the printer company had a bunch of complaints about printer jams with envelopes, and it was cheaper to remove the envelope printing mode from the list of supported modes".
Although it might be possible to persuade your printer to print on envelopes anyway - do you have the ability to configure a custom paper size?
That’s all,we’ll and good of you want to print an entire sheet of labels, but if you only want one, it’s incredibly wasteful
Not sure that I totally understand your description, but we have electric kettles, are much the same shape as the sort of kettle used on a stovetop and metal, and electric jugs which are more jug shaped and ceramic. The kettles sit on a base which has the power connection, but the power goes straight into the jug.
One of the sounds I always associate with visiting the grandparents, along with the ticking of the pendulum clock, and the hissing of the Tilley lamp, is the pumping sound of the big black kettle on the back of the range.
You can put the same sheet of labels through the printer more than once, as long as you're careful with the edges when you remove a label. I routinely print on half-used label sheets.
I used to have a Kenyan flatmate who would make tea in one of them. He would put water, teabags, milk & sugar in the kettle and boil them all up together. Apparently, that’s how they did it in Kenya. It tasted disgusting.
@Spike, that does sound horrid - tea with boiled milk! Ugh!
I remember my mother reminiscing about digs she was in where you always got brown eggs. Then she discovered the landlady boiled them in the teapot. She, otoh, considered that anything that came out of a hen's bum should be cooked in a dedicated saucepan.
What, both at the same time? 😜
Oooh - do I have to design a loving kettle for tea drinkers?
When I lived in Kenya they did boil it all up together but in a pan over a charcoal burner, not in a kettle 🙃 and most of my Kenyan friends did not include the sugar, letting people add their own to their cup. However tea in a village visit would nearly always include the sugar as it was too expensive to let people add their own.
An electric kettle which didn't switch off got my husband thrown out of uni digs when he left it to boil dry and destroyed a kitchen worktop 😂
That picture took me right back to an early 1980s dorm room!
My parents still have one of those. They work well if you have a gas stove, not so good with electric.
Looks like halfway between a kettle and a small urn.