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Somewhere on teh intarwebs Nicolaas Hawkins wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 2009 21:25:37 +1200, ~misfit~ <>
> wrote in <news:guttui$43j$>:
>
>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Nicolaas Hawkins wrote:
>>> On Tue, 19 May 2009 19:53:43 +1200, Jack Spratt
>>> <pickledpork@_nospam_gmail.com> wrote in
>>> <news:gutoia$vs7$>:
>>>
>>>> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <_zealand> wrote in
>>>> message news:gute71$53q$...
>>>>> Looks like Microsoft is going to be charging more for Windows 7
>>>>> <http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=4414>.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'd be happy to know of a list of consumer items that are getting
>>>> cheaper please.
>>>> I mean milk was (probably) 10c a pint at some stage in the distant
>>>> past.
>>>
>>> Less than half that. Fourpence ha'penny (4½d) (= a little under 4c)
>>> a pint - and not so far in the distant past that I can't remember it
>>> - and it was delivered to your letterbox in glass bottles in the
>>> wee-small hours of the morning.
>>
>> You got yours in bottles? Luxury!
>>
>> When I lived in a smallish town in North Canterbury (1973) we had to
>> put our name on our family billy and put it in the milk stand (next
>> to the store). The dairy farmer would fill them up after morning
>> milking and we'd pay him monthly. 4c a pint I believe. I'd say there
>> were perhaps 50 to 80 billys filled on a daily basis. We had two,
>> we'd take an empty clean one for the next day's milk when we
>> collected the milk in the morning. It'd soon go off in summer in the
>> corrugated iron milk stand so you couldn't leave it too long before
>> picking it up.
>
> Yup. Been there, done that, too. And met the farmer on his horse
> and cart at the gate and had our billy filled on the spot from a milk
> can using a dipper. And in those days it was REAL milk.

Yeah, the dairy farmer who supplied the town/villiage milk used the old
metal milk churns and a dipper, and of course real milk. No horse and cart
though, an old Lanz Bulldog tractor with the churns on a trailer.

We wondered what we'd walked into, having just migrated from England where
milk was delivered, even in the smallest hamlets, in bottles and had been
for as long as anyone could remember.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

"Build a man a fire, and he`ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and
he`ll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett, Jingo.

On Wed, 20 May 2009 12:47:37 +1200, ~misfit~ <>
wrote in <news:guvjv9$1jf$>:

> Yeah, the dairy farmer who supplied the town/villiage milk used the old
> metal milk churns and a dipper, and of course real milk. No horse and cart
> though, an old Lanz Bulldog tractor with the churns on a trailer.
>
> We wondered what we'd walked into, having just migrated from England where
> milk was delivered, even in the smallest hamlets, in bottles and had been
> for as long as anyone could remember.
>
> Cheers,

Remember, though, that the Pomgolians had been farming milk commercially for
a hundred or few years longer that we had in this colonial outpost - so it
stands to reason(?) that their method of delivery was a bit farther removed
from squeezing the cow's teat into a bucket (or directly into the cat's
meowth).

--
- Nicolaas

Somewhere on teh intarwebs Nicolaas Hawkins wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2009 12:47:37 +1200, ~misfit~ <>
> wrote in <news:guvjv9$1jf$>:
>
>> Yeah, the dairy farmer who supplied the town/villiage milk used the
>> old metal milk churns and a dipper, and of course real milk. No
>> horse and cart though, an old Lanz Bulldog tractor with the churns
>> on a trailer.
>>
>> We wondered what we'd walked into, having just migrated from England
>> where milk was delivered, even in the smallest hamlets, in bottles
>> and had been for as long as anyone could remember.
>>
>
> Remember, though, that the Pomgolians had been farming milk
> commercially for a hundred or few years longer that we had in this
> colonial outpost - so it stands to reason(?) that their method of
> delivery was a bit farther removed from squeezing the cow's teat into
> a bucket (or directly into the cat's meowth).

But isn't this colonial outpost a Pomgolian one? Surely by 1973 they'd have
had time to export a few people who knew about bottles, and maybe a few milk
float drivers?
--
Shaun.

"Build a man a fire, and he`ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and
he`ll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett, Jingo.

On Wed, 20 May 2009 18:23:04 +1200, ~misfit~ <>
wrote in <news:gv07k9$sbt$>:

> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Nicolaas Hawkins wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 May 2009 12:47:37 +1200, ~misfit~ <>
>> wrote in <news:guvjv9$1jf$>:
>>
>>> Yeah, the dairy farmer who supplied the town/villiage milk used the
>>> old metal milk churns and a dipper, and of course real milk. No
>>> horse and cart though, an old Lanz Bulldog tractor with the churns
>>> on a trailer.
>>>
>>> We wondered what we'd walked into, having just migrated from England
>>> where milk was delivered, even in the smallest hamlets, in bottles
>>> and had been for as long as anyone could remember.
>>>
>>
>> Remember, though, that the Pomgolians had been farming milk
>> commercially for a hundred or few years longer that we had in this
>> colonial outpost - so it stands to reason(?) that their method of
>> delivery was a bit farther removed from squeezing the cow's teat into
>> a bucket (or directly into the cat's meowth).
>
> But isn't this colonial outpost a Pomgolian one?

Not according to our melanin-enhanced co-citizens.

> Surely by 1973 they'd have had time to export a few people who knew about
> bottles, and maybe a few milk float drivers?

I must admit that was a bit later than _I_ was talking about - I was
referring to the late 1940's - early-to-mid 1950's.


--
- Nicolaas

"~misfit~" <> wrote in message
news:gv07k9$sbt$...
> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Nicolaas Hawkins wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 May 2009 12:47:37 +1200, ~misfit~ <>
>> wrote in <news:guvjv9$1jf$>:
>>
>>> Yeah, the dairy farmer who supplied the town/villiage milk used the
>>> old metal milk churns and a dipper, and of course real milk. No
>>> horse and cart though, an old Lanz Bulldog tractor with the churns
>>> on a trailer.
>>>
>>> We wondered what we'd walked into, having just migrated from England
>>> where milk was delivered, even in the smallest hamlets, in bottles
>>> and had been for as long as anyone could remember.
>>>
>>
>> Remember, though, that the Pomgolians had been farming milk
>> commercially for a hundred or few years longer that we had in this
>> colonial outpost - so it stands to reason(?) that their method of
>> delivery was a bit farther removed from squeezing the cow's teat into
>> a bucket (or directly into the cat's meowth).
>
> But isn't this colonial outpost a Pomgolian one? Surely by 1973 they'd
> have had time to export a few people who knew about bottles, and maybe a
> few milk float drivers?

Does Ernie still drive the fastest milk cart in the west?

Jack Spratt wrote:

>
> Does Ernie still drive the fastest milk cart in the west?

Not since the unfortunate incident with Ted.

On Wed, 20 May 2009 20:25:02 +1200, Jack Spratt
<pickledpork@_nospam_gmail.com> wrote in
<news:gv0epa$chp$>:

> "~misfit~" <> wrote in message
> news:gv07k9$sbt$...
>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Nicolaas Hawkins wrote:
>>> On Wed, 20 May 2009 12:47:37 +1200, ~misfit~ <>
>>> wrote in <news:guvjv9$1jf$>:
>>>
>>>> Yeah, the dairy farmer who supplied the town/villiage milk used the
>>>> old metal milk churns and a dipper, and of course real milk. No
>>>> horse and cart though, an old Lanz Bulldog tractor with the churns
>>>> on a trailer.
>>>>
>>>> We wondered what we'd walked into, having just migrated from England
>>>> where milk was delivered, even in the smallest hamlets, in bottles
>>>> and had been for as long as anyone could remember.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Remember, though, that the Pomgolians had been farming milk
>>> commercially for a hundred or few years longer that we had in this
>>> colonial outpost - so it stands to reason(?) that their method of
>>> delivery was a bit farther removed from squeezing the cow's teat into
>>> a bucket (or directly into the cat's meowth).
>>
>> But isn't this colonial outpost a Pomgolian one? Surely by 1973 they'd
>> have had time to export a few people who knew about bottles, and maybe a
>> few milk float drivers?
>
> Does Ernie still drive the fastest milk cart in the west?

Ask Trigger.

--
- Nicolaas

On May 19, 7:53*pm, "Jack Spratt" <pickledpork@_nospam_gmail.com>
wrote:
> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote in message
>
> news:gute71$53q$...
>
> > Looks like Microsoft is going to be charging more for Windows 7
> > <http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=4414>.
>
> I'd be happy to know of a list of consumer items that are getting cheaper
> please.
> I mean milk was (probably) 10c a pint at some stage in the distant past.

Cheese, whiteware.....huge deflation right now....

regards

Thing

Somewhere on teh intarwebs Jack Spratt wrote:
> "~misfit~" <> wrote in message
> news:gv07k9$sbt$...
>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Nicolaas Hawkins wrote:
>>> On Wed, 20 May 2009 12:47:37 +1200, ~misfit~
>>> <> wrote in
>>> <news:guvjv9$1jf$>:
>>>> Yeah, the dairy farmer who supplied the town/villiage milk used the
>>>> old metal milk churns and a dipper, and of course real milk. No
>>>> horse and cart though, an old Lanz Bulldog tractor with the churns
>>>> on a trailer.
>>>>
>>>> We wondered what we'd walked into, having just migrated from
>>>> England where milk was delivered, even in the smallest hamlets, in
>>>> bottles and had been for as long as anyone could remember.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Remember, though, that the Pomgolians had been farming milk
>>> commercially for a hundred or few years longer that we had in this
>>> colonial outpost - so it stands to reason(?) that their method of
>>> delivery was a bit farther removed from squeezing the cow's teat
>>> into a bucket (or directly into the cat's meowth).
>>
>> But isn't this colonial outpost a Pomgolian one? Surely by 1973
>> they'd have had time to export a few people who knew about bottles,
>> and maybe a few milk float drivers?
>
> Does Ernie still drive the fastest milk cart in the west?

Man, that brings back memories. Benny Hill?
--
Shaun.

"Build a man a fire, and he`ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and
he`ll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett, Jingo.

"~misfit~" <> wrote in message
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> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Jack Spratt wrote:
>> "~misfit~" <> wrote in message
>> news:gv07k9$sbt$...
>>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Nicolaas Hawkins wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 20 May 2009 12:47:37 +1200, ~misfit~
>>>> <> wrote in
>>>> <news:guvjv9$1jf$>:
>>>>> Yeah, the dairy farmer who supplied the town/villiage milk used the
>>>>> old metal milk churns and a dipper, and of course real milk. No
>>>>> horse and cart though, an old Lanz Bulldog tractor with the churns
>>>>> on a trailer.
>>>>>
>>>>> We wondered what we'd walked into, having just migrated from
>>>>> England where milk was delivered, even in the smallest hamlets, in
>>>>> bottles and had been for as long as anyone could remember.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Remember, though, that the Pomgolians had been farming milk
>>>> commercially for a hundred or few years longer that we had in this
>>>> colonial outpost - so it stands to reason(?) that their method of
>>>> delivery was a bit farther removed from squeezing the cow's teat
>>>> into a bucket (or directly into the cat's meowth).
>>>
>>> But isn't this colonial outpost a Pomgolian one? Surely by 1973
>>> they'd have had time to export a few people who knew about bottles,
>>> and maybe a few milk float drivers?
>>
>> Does Ernie still drive the fastest milk cart in the west?
>
> Man, that brings back memories. Benny Hill?

Yep

> --
> Shaun.
>
> "Build a man a fire, and he`ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and
> he`ll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett, Jingo.
>