i stopped drinking straight milk years ago… right about the time they stopped selling it in glass bottles.

when i was very young i’d run down to nanna’s front gate, barefoot in the cool evening, with 2 or 3 bottles in the carrier, payment tokens rattling within. tied round the carrier handle was a used silver foil cap, to let the milkman know what type of milk we wanted. (silver-top was full cream, which we always got; blue top was homogenised and green-top was fat-free skim – yuck LOL).

then we’d listen for the milkman, who could be identified by the distant clinking of glass. the full pint bottles in the carrier were almost too heavy for me, but somehow i struggled them back up to the house, feeling the old plastic handle flex under my tiny fingers.

as i got older i remember walking up to the dairy by myself and buying a pint bottle for mum, and then on the way home i’d puncture the foil cap with my teeth and drink half of it (including all the cream off the top) before i got back! never could understand why this bothered mum so much lol.

but sadly those days are gone; and now the glass pint milk deliveries are a thing of the past. today’s alternatives offer only cardboard or plastic cartons… call me old-fashioned but i find them really off-putting.

the worst thing about plastic carton milk is the way it starts to smell when the bottle is getting empty; and if i can smell it, i can’t drink it. so today, i went looking for the good old days – and found these cool 1-litre glass bottles. now my fresh milk will actually taste that way again! can’t wait to go drink it! 🙂