[HPFGU-OTChatter] Mr. Creevey's Profession

[Kathryn]

There are indeed still milkmen in this country. AFAIK they cover most of the
country (if you actually want milk delivered) with the exception of people
living in the middle of nowhere.
Alas they no longer use a horse and cart as my mothers uncle used to, now
they use annoying electric milk floats, well annoying if you've ever been
stuck behind one.
Seek out some old Open All Hours episodes, they haven't changed much since
(if at all). 

K 
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From: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Date: 14 October 2002 21:01:03
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Mr. Creevey's Profession

I was musing on the "mixed time" feel of the HP books - some 
descriptions of the Muggle world seem to be fifties-ish or 
sixties-ish, while other bits (computers and Playstations) are modern 
times, or at least nineties-ish, and the Wizarding world is a muddle 
of pseudo-medieval, pseudo-Elizibethan, and pseudo-Victorian 
trappings - when something occurred to me.

Colin Creevey states in CoS that his father is a milkman. I had 
semi-unconsciously sorted this as one of the fifties-ish details 
about the story. I am now wondering if it is, instead, a cultural 
detail. Would one of the British listies be so kind as to tell me 
whether there are still milkmen in Britain (or, more to the point, if 
there were circa 1992)?

Thanks,