and discovered that a great mystery has been solved
My parents live in a quiet farmy village surrounded by other quiet farmy villages. My mother circulates the village on a daily basis armed with a rubber glove and a plastic carrier bag in which she collects any litter she finds; two full bags of discarded wrappers and drinks cans in a single day and once when she pulled something unspeakable out of a tree, these things used to mark the peak of local criminal activity.
until the milk started going missing ....
The village dairy farmer delivers his bottled milk door to door in the early hours of the morning before going home to get the cows hooked up for the next milking.
When milk bottles started disappearing from people's front doorsteps suspicion was cast wide but mainly settled on road labourers and travellers working in the area.
After listening to the gossip, and having lost a few bottles herself, my mother decided to get to the bottom of the thing, she went to bed early in the evening, set an alarm for 3am (milk delivery time) at which time she went and stood sentinel by the bedroom window where she had a view of the front doorstep but dad said that her standing like a statue in the dark room was a bit weird and he couldn't sleep - so when nothing had happened by 4 she went back to bed.
... to be continued
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ReplyDeletePS: We had a Milkman in the 1950s. All the major dairy companies did home delivery then.
... boy were they handsome
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