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KidKruger Wrote:

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> A bit like the opposite of burning-down allotment

> sheds.

> Some tinder and a match then boom you have a fire

> in seconds, but hours of satisfaction watching it

> burn (unless the fire brigade arrives).



Is there something you need to tell us Kid ?


Backs away slowly hiding matches and lighters ....

OscarM Wrote:

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> Yes Andy - our next door neighbour has been

> experiencing this. In the mornings between about

> 8-9am, Underhill Road (East Dulwich end). Wonder

> if it?s someone?s usual route...



It?s only just started happening since lockdown.. I don?t mind if someone is desperate enough to need 1 pint but taking them both is not nice. If I couldn?t have my breakfast tea I would camp out to catch them 😂

We've had things delivered by our milkman stolen by foxes - bread, margarine etc - until I hung up a bag in the porch so they couldn't reach them.

We also have a cool box - with a well fitting lid - for the milk bottles. This is safe enough on the doorstep, against foxes.


But in your case it seems unlikely that it was foxes - I doubt even the cleverest fox could steal two glass bottles of milk, without breaking and spilling them! So it does sound like humans :-(

All I need to tell you is allotment sheds and other things are nowadays perfectly safe when I'm around !


Spartacus Wrote:

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> KidKruger Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > A bit like the opposite of burning-down

> allotment

> > sheds.

> > Some tinder and a match then boom you have a

> fire

> > in seconds, but hours of satisfaction watching

> it

> > burn (unless the fire brigade arrives).

>

>

> Is there something you need to tell us Kid ?

>

> Backs away slowly hiding matches and lighters ....

OutOfFocus Wrote:

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> M&M must have rejigged their rounds - moved some

> people from M,W,F to T,TH,Sa. We live near goose

> green and have been on T,TH,Sa for as long as I

> can remember.

>

> Related rant - finding the 12:00 deadline a PITA.

> roll back old days of paper "3 pints today"


I know. Those days were simple. I want to order more for tomorrow but don?t see the point if someone steals it.

"Penguin68 Milk & More deliveries have changed, I had an email. Monday's changed to Tuesday , Wednesday's to Thursday and Friday's to Saturday."


Ah, that makes sense then, not that I got any notification - but that may be because I'm not an internet customer of their's. Thanks

singalto Wrote:

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> I don?t have milk deliveries but have seen the

> milkman deliver in my road around 11.15pm!



1-2am seems to be the norm since lockdown where I am. I know when he's here as I can hear him speeding with the milk crashing in the crates as they go over the speed humps!

Nigello Wrote:

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> How come milkpersons think it?s ok to stop-start

> in diesel vehicles in the dead of night? If yours

> does that, consider ditching him in solidarity

> with people who like to sleep (ie. everyone).


Wow ours has a electric truck. Old fashioned milkman 😀

A lot earlier than that. Milk float was the term used. There's a Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float and plenty of photos around, though I can't find one of the pedestrian controlled ones with, iirc, a control and steering arm on the front.


Do the current deliveries come in bottles or cartons? In the video clip above it looks to me more like a carton that the fox is removing. I wonder if they could cope with a glass bottle.

I live in Dunstans Road and had this problem a couple of years ago. I asked the milkman to leave the milk out of sight on not on the doorstep. No more milk was taken.


I also have had my milk delivered to the wrong house recently. Luckily the owner knew I got milk delivered and knocked on my door with the bottle!

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