The Milkman Hasn't Cometh ( was: Weighing In Very Late

[Talisman]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" 
<carolynwhite2 at ...> wrote:
 Ok, fair cop - should have checked the actual wording. I could 
start 
> a ghastly British Thread by explaining you put empty milk bottles 
> out the night *before* for collection, because milkmen collect and 
> deliver at unseemly hours in the early morning, waking you up if 
>you have only just dozed off after worrying into the small hours..> 

Do they really still deliver, at all? The last time I had a milkman, 
I was a kid in my parent's home.  Okay, I didn't actually HAVE the 
milkman, just his delivery services...oh, never mind.

And bottles...do they still use those?  And collect empties?  Sounds 
like life 40 years ago.

> > Talisman, saying: steady on...
> 
>Carolyn:  Splutter..pots, kettles, black etc...
>
 Why whatever could you mean? ::bats eyelashes sweetly::

Talisman saying, that's it then! Petunia woke up at 2:00 AM, 
suddenly recalling that she hadn't set out the empties.  She 
scurried to the door with her arms full of bottles--and got a nasty 
surprise. 

Now we see that poor widdle Harry only had to camp out on the 
doorstep for a few hours. 

Thanks for clearing that up C :)