My milkman just woke me up

[milkmilk]

It's 1am and my milkman just woke me up. Now I can't sleep as all I can think about is my milk warming up (and my husband hasn't put the bin out yet at they come at 7am).

Aibu to make my husband get up and sort now?

Should I complain to the milkman?

For full disclosure; Children currently sleeping until 8am due to heat. I'm on mat leave. Husband doesn't set an alarm he relies on me. Toddler bedroom is next to the bin path. Husband awake looking at phone (probably Mumsnet)

I also stopped my milk because of delivery time.
Sometimes it was before midnight, so he would wake me with his van and I would end up getting up to get the milk.
I had curdled milk on several occasions.

When I cancelled his wife had a massive go at me as people were leaving in droves. The milkman had another job during the day and needed to get done so he could get to bed.
I would have been happier if he had delivered early evening to be honest.

Our milkman delivers at 3am. We hear him as he crunches across the gravel.

AJPTaylor
Milk delivery has most definitely NOT died out!
My DH had over 400 customers over two rounds. Over 200 deliveries every night except Sunday. More customers joining than leaving.

My milk comes about 3 or 4am I think. I have a cooler milk storage thingy (pretty sure that's the right term!) so the milk doesn't get warm and nothing gets to it.

It's expensive, but I just can't bring myself to cancel it because it's keeping a local, small business going.

I’m not sure what time ours delivers - I’ve never heard him. There was a car accident in the road last week, we were woken up at 3am & he hadn’t been. The milk is always there - and still cold - at 6am when dh gets up.

@furrymuff - that milk machine sounds amazing!

Our milkman also comes about 1am. If they didn't start until later then people at the end of the round wouldnt get their milk before they leave for work.

Put your postcode in here - see if you're in a delivery area...

www.milkandmore.co.uk/

I remember the birds used to peck the tops to get the cream sometimes. We still drank it though!
I miss penny chew shops too. Although i think there is still one in my local town - must go and check.

I also remember a grocers van coming round every now and then while i was little. Fruit and veg mainly but the odd tin and if we went in with dad we might get to choose a chocolate bar. It was a man and his wife, in a little van with the back all set up as a shop, little racks etc. Loved it. Such an adventure going in there.

Penny sweets. 20p and you could select 20 different sweets. I still go in the corner shop where I did this as a kid and look at the boring chocolate bars that are where the penny sweets used to live. Ha'penny
chews. You could have got 96 of those for your 20p!

We have milk delivered. In glass bottles too. He also still drives a little milk float. He will also deliver eggs and juice.

He even delivered during all the heavy snow we had. It was a good job i checked as it was almost buried by the time I went out!

I have a teeny coolbox for the milkman to put our milk (which is in actual glass bottles, unhomogenised with actual cream on the top) in during the hot weather. It's been a lifesaver this year!

Meredint I fear your maths has gone a bit awry there. Forty halfpenny sweets for 20p surely? Blackjacks and Tutti Fruttis IIRC.

I am feeling old blackjacks and the fruity sweets - fruit salads - used to be 2 a penny at our shop...and it wasn't an old penny either.

But we still get milk deliveries here in glass bottles - I recall you can get tops to stop foxes as well - off to google - but candle votives might work.

Ours varies when they deliver dependant on the weather so warm = 6 to 7am and when not so hot overnight often between 10 and midnight. Its a local farm with all the usual farmery things to do so it gets fitted in when they can. I like the natural cycle of things though.

Funny story about Milk boys

I was brought up in a tiny village in the far north west - 400 residents, M&D knew everyone including milko, baker, teachers etc. Milk man used to finish his round on our street and come in for a cuppa with breakfast and a chinwag with M&D, his lads would find their own way home.

Years later I applied for a job and got it, in the East in a town commutable to London. Chatting to boss on first day (in the pub gotta love it) and I asked him where he was from, oh you won't know it he said - turns out same village, and he used to be a milk boy, and he remembered our house because the Milkman was a family friend etc and he remembered me as a child - he was only about 5 yrs older. But it definitely felt like a small world that day.

RB68 and then you married him right?! Please say you did!

We had milk delivery, but he was coming around midnight and our milk was stolen repeatedly, presumably by people coming home from the pub etc, so I cancelled. I WISHED he came after 4am, so we could have cold, non-stolen milk.

Gosh, I thought out 3.30am milk man was early! I too worry about it sitting out getting warm, but it doesn't seem to have done much damage so far.

Someone on twitter pointed out only yesterday that if someone came up with the idea of an everyday consumable being delivered to your door via an electric vehicle in reusable packaging the hipsters would be all over it.

NDN milkman used to come around 2am. She had a bottle a day for the 22 years I've lived here. She died earlier this year aged 100. I do rather miss her she was amazing.

Disappointed to see this long a thread about milkmen with no mention of Pat Mustard

Who is pat mustard??

He's the hairy baby maker of Craggy Island

here you go

tothappy I’m in Cornwall too. Just google milk doorstep deliveries. I looked into it but too inflexible and too expensive so have settled for buying Rodda’s milk at the corner shop.