DR Brat

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We too lived across the street from a dairy when we were kids ... we used to go over all the time and pet the horse and watch the operation. Great fun. The milk wagon reminded me of those coaches you'd see in the wild west when people were travelling from one spot to another - and our milk wagon was pulled by a horse too. Much more interesting times back then.

Sharon (N.B.) (who just can't get used to this 'rule' of bottom posting)

Rules were MADE to be broken, Sharon!

Pat P

Actually, I'm planning to take the Brownies to Stonyfield soon. But, having done the tour, they get most of their milk from north of Concord of late.

Cheryl

I hated Night milking , at the time it was still done by hand, the cows were nervous and would hit our heads with their tails, the half dark and the mixed smells made one want crawl back to bed . But i loved the times when they had calves and my most cherished sweet memory is helping a cow while she had twin calves... mirjam

Sorry to be late in getting into this topic, I was off list for a while... I grew up in Toronto, and lived there many years. They do have the flashing lights for pedestrian cross walks (and drivers are supposed to stop), but if they don't activate the cross-walks or there isn't one present, they DO still have the right of way. It is jaywalking if you are a pedestrian crossing in the middle of a block (as opposed to at an intersection), and you can be charged for it, but even so, the pedestrian ALWAYS has the right of way. Drivers in Toronto have been getting progressively worse over the years about letting pedestrians have the right of way at intersections, let alone if the person is jaywalking. Heather Can you tell I try to walk everywhere I can?

I KNEW I liked you Pat ....... you're a brave woman!! :-))

Sharon (N.B.) ...............................................................

I MUCH prefer top posting. In fact, I sometimes don't read the posts when I have to keep scrolling down.

Catherine

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When I was travelling through Europe, I stopped for a few months in Yorkshire and milked cows. Of course, milk was free, and every morning after milking I'd take a container of milk back to my lodgings. I'm not sure how I'd feel now, but then I found the thought of the warm milk straight from the cow revolting, so I'd wait for the containers to refrigerate it before I took it.

It was a very interesting experience, albeit a pretty lonely one, with reticent Yorkshiremen and all! lol

Where we live now, we buy 'loose milk', which means we take our containers along, and buy milk by the litre straight from those old-fashioned canisters. When we get it hom, after it's stood for a while, it gets a nice layer of cream, and it's interesting to see how the thickness of the layer varies. The 'loose'milk is very cheap (an unpasteurised). I just wish we could get cheap meat too, and I am trying to source free-range chickens - seems crazy in a farming area to have to eat battery chickens.

Catherine

Well that`s at least THREE of us with common sense, Catherine! Now just wait and see some of the others squawk!!!

Pat P

Must say I`ve always found friends from Yorkshire to be quite garrulous!

Where in Africa are you?

Pat P

If people edit properly and only keep what is necessary for the flow of conversation, you shouldn't have to scroll down that far. Top posting is faster, but bottom posting helps to keep the order of things in longer back and forth conversations. They both have advantages, but I've been on Usenet long enough that I rarely can bring myself to toppost, since it was really frowned upon when I first started posting.

Elizabeth

It's not really a matter of common sense, Pat. It's a matter of what works. It's much harder to follow a long discussion if there is top posting. If the conversation is short, then it doesn't matter nearly as much.

Elizabeth (who wants to know why disagreeing is "squawking")

How da go Pat!!! I find it much easier to follow the conversations if the message is top-posted too. I find it discouraging to have to scroll way down to the bottom of the page just to find a 'me too' or 'you old GOW'. But we'd better watch out, the needlework police will ban us from the group. :-))

Sharon (N.B.) .................................................................

Anybody complaining about the above statement should also note that simply reposting the entirety of an older post with one or two lines added is very very bad form. In fact, there used to be newsreaders that wouldn't allow you to post unless you had added more new material than you quoted. Under those circumstances, one wouldn't have to scroll all the way to the bottom of a long post for only one line.

Elizabeth

I actually post where it seems more convenient at the time - sometimes at the bottom, if applicable - at the top otherwise. Don`t worry about the net-nannies - they probably have nothing better to think about! ;-))

Pat P

Sorry, make it FOUR. I delete when I've got to keep scrolling down. Also, not deleting unnecessary information makes it more daunting.

Pat >>have to keep scrolling down.

I hope you Boil your milk well, drinking straight from the cow is dangerous for you. mirjam

Interesting - how many more, I wonder?

Pat P