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[CLKD]

Most of mine are linked but I don't always remember from where/whom 

[CLKD]

Didn't do us any harm!  When times is tuff everything was used including the top off the milk which we argued over ……… didn't think about where their beaks might have been 

[Dorothy]

Magpies eat carrion so more risky than blue tits.  Should be ok if you boil the milk first anyway.  Or provide something to stick on top of the milk bottles to stop it happening.

[Taz2]

Bluetits have been found to carry campylobacter apparently. Mine don't attack semi-skimmed bottles so we don't get any problems.

How blue tits knew about the cream.. http://www.britishbirdlovers.co.uk/articles/blue-tits-and-milk-bottle-tops

Taz x

[Hattie]

Interesting Taz.

So the bottled doorstep delivery could be kept but without silver tops.

[Taz2]

It's to do with cost I think not bird-pecking though http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/buying-and-supplying/end-of-an-era-dairy-crest-prepares-to-wave-goodbye-to-milk-in-glass-bottles/371795.article

Taz x

[CLKD]

The link won't open - yet 

[Hattie]

Lot of comments on that last link as to why people keep up a doorstep delivery and don't see the plastic as any different than getting it from the supermarket.

End of an era coming.

[Dorothy]

What's the bet that once door step milk bottles have gone, the 'posher' supermarkets will add glass bottle milk to their de luxe range of foods at twice the price?

Have they actually done any research into WHY consumers buy/don't buy from their milkman?  Where I lived before, I could have had my milk delivered, but I had to order a minimum of 5 pints a week - as I only get through 2-3 a week, this wasn't practical for me, though I would have loved to have ordered otherwise.

[CLKD]

Same here.  There was a minimum order which we wouldn't have drunk in 2 weeks  ……… so the milk company weren't doing themselves any favours the argument was that it wasn't worth delivering only 1 pint per household per day - well they went out of business shortly afterwards 

I have to say that milk from different outlets keeps better than others ……… and I'm talking 7-8 days for the same product rather than 1-1 and a half days 

[bramble]

My milk gets delivered in plastic bottles - 4pts one day and 2 pints a few days later. Organic milk. It is such a luxury to have milk in the fridge all the time. I love it.  I bought around the same time as starting deliveries, an electric milk heater and nespresso coffee machine. My luxury now is a nespresso coffee every day with hot frothy milk! Little things.................! I know how to live!
Bramble

[CLKD]

Organic milk from where  ………….. don't say cows   

I had a very nice hot chocolate from a machine today, a treat because usually machines don't give up good chocolate drinks!

[honeybun]

I just buy from the supermarket although we do have deliveries in our area. They are just too expensive.
I always have milk in the fridge as if I watch the use by dates I can buy almost a weeks worth at the one time.


Honeyb
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[bramble]

Organic milk from where  ………….. don't say cows   

'We deliver a full range of fresh dairy milk direct to your doorstep. Serving homes and businesses with local milkmen and local milk working across Central Scotland. We try our best to source your milk locally and give farmers a better price than supermarkets. '

Milk is available in glass bottles if you wish.


Bramble

[CLKD]

Thanks.  How close is 'local' though - we went to a restaurant a couple of years ago and asked how local the food was, a well-named supermarket was named