dunroving

I have a farthing tucked away somewhere, worth a little over 0.1 "new pence" (anyone remember that phrase?)

md95065

http://britishexpats.com/forum/trail.../#post11463870

Pulaski

You sound like my father, who I never remember seeing drink milk, and refused to eat yoghurt either, even if my mother served it as the dessert at the dinner table, he said it tasted sour. That said, he didn't even put milk in his tea, so the only place I remember him drinking milk was a little dribble that he sprinkled on his cereal.

I don't remember that school milk tasting great (it didn't), but I still love a glass, or three, of cold milk. I have adjusted to the slightly different taste of American homogenized v British pasteurized milk, and little Miss P and I usually get through 4-5 gallons a week*, depending on the time of year; Mrs P drinks some, but probably only account for a couple of pints a week.

* For anyone who wonders about my health, and specifically my blood cholesterol and lipids levels, they are perfectly "normal", and not even close to "needing" medication. ..... I have no idea if this is despite, or because, of my milk consumption.

robin1234

So where were you going with that asterisk?

Anyway 4-5 gallons a week is insane. i really think drinking the koolade would be healthier.

I remember we used to get the milkman to deliver yogurt back in the 50s. My mother was brought up in the Middle East so yogurt was essential to her. In those days, the dairies sold it in little glass pots, quarter pint maybe, with a foil top just like a milk bottle. Plain only, no flavours.

Pulaski

Last paragraph, now added.

I might be insane, but I don't believe my milk consumption is conclusive proof!

Amie06

Do you not get the urge to graze on grass whenever you see it?

Pulaski

No. ..... At least not more than eating steak makes me want to go outside and howl at a full moon.

Mrs Danvers

I'm not sure when Thatcher snatched the milk but I remember being forced to drink room temperature milk in 1978 and 1979 in infant school. Hated the stuff and by that time all children in the UK must have been getting sufficient nutrition not to have needed the school milk program. It wasn't as if rationing was still going on.

I don't think stopping the school milk program was in Thatchers list of shortcomings at all

I don't remember sixpences but I do remember one shilling was interchangeable for 5p and two shillings was a 10p.

theOAP

I've a few 1/2 pence coins I never spent, but the real pride and joy is a proper Television Broadcast Receiving Licence (including colour) from my local post office with a proper C3 stamp affixed and franked.

robin1234

Just watched a brilliant film, BBC The Voice of Britain (1935.). It's on a BFI DVD called Addressing the Nation, a collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. Apparently the BBC licence was 10/- a year back then!

On the topic of affixing stamps, and related to school milk, I remember when the Post Office Savings Bank operated in the primary school classroom. You bought savings stamps, maybe a penny or a halfpenny, in class, stuck them on a sheet, when it was full, the total amount was credited to your PO Savings Bank book. Interest was 2.5% for many decades. We used to think it was a derisory rate, now sounds pretty good.

robin1234

Hmm. All small things but they're beginning to add up.

scrubbedexpat099

He is OK his mother had him tested.

Pulaski

Are you familiar with Rule #18?

Some people would probably add "moving to The South, the rural South, and enjoying it" to the evidence.

Yorkieabroad

Before or after the "dropping on head" incident that no-one talks about...

Pulaski

I don't remember being dropped on my head.