The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

wondercollie

Butter is 5.99 Canadian dollars a 500 gram brick. It was a
special offer this weekend at 2.99 at Walmart. Shelves cleared in minutes.

Milk is 4,72 for a 4 litre jug. 2 litres is 3.65.

Dairy is not onexpensive. If you live close to the US border, its cheaper down there even with the exchange rate.

Food is not cheap here. And prices rise constantly as do taxes,

I loathe the phrase. "Fixed income". Everyone s on a fixed gift ncome not just pensioners, there is no overtime or extra hours available at work, so my income is pretty much fixed as well

Jazee

Until last Thursday we had milk delivered in bottles too but our milk man has now gone out of business.

nursemaggie

The milkman round here went out of business about 3 years ago. I had not had the opportunity to have one when we lived in Bognor. I have not had a milk delivery for over 25 years.

The last milkman I had was so dopy, you give him it in writing that you are going on holiday and tell him the day before. Then I was living alone so he delivered 5 a week. He only came three days. I got fed up of coming home from 2 weeks holiday to find 10 bottles of sour milk on the door step.

pollyanna_26

Good to see you again Wondercollie . It's interesting to read the Canadian situation on prices and employment . As I mentioned a week or so back DD2 will be flying to Canada in the a couple of weeks . The tea towels will be safe as she can't even remember where she's going . Clue it has a big lake :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I think we've now established Ontario but that could still change !

Jazee I'm sorry you've lost your milkman . So many dairy farmers are being forced to give up now . I hope our local farm and all it employs can hang on but the writing seems to be on the wall .
polly

Hard_Up_Hester

I had milk delivered until I moved on to my boat, I also had eggs and veg delivered as a way of supporting local businesses.

Floss

Way back in 1981 at 6th form i worked every Thurs & Fri evening from 5pm until 9pm collecting money for our local dairy on our round, in all weathers. By the time me & my kids lived with my mum in late 1999 the dairyman had retired, the site was sold and executive houses built.

We have a milkman here but live on a main road and can't guarantee the milk will be still on the step when we go for it

wondercollie

pollyanna_26 wrote: »

Good to see you again Wondercollie . It's interesting to read the Canadian situation on prices and employment . As I mentioned a week or so back DD2 will be flying to Canada in the a couple of weeks . The tea towels will be safe as she can't even remember where she's going . Clue it has a big lake :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I think we've now established Ontario but that could still change !

Jazee I'm sorry you've lost your milkman . So many dairy farmers are being forced to give up now . I hope our local farm and all it employs can hang on but the writing seems to be on the wall .
polly

We have Lake Louise! I thought the teatowels were safe until my oldest son moved out. He came home and helped himself to several that had recipes on them! He said he needed them for help for his partner to feed him. So I guess they are living on soda bread, !!!! o'leekie soup, etc, lol.

pollyanna_26

I feel I may have cursed your beloved stash of tea towels . A novel way to learn cooking , that never came to mind thankfully with any of mine . You'll have to write all the recipes down and present them with a homemade cook book and get a padlock on the cupboard before the shelves are bare .
DD2 is well educated and highly professional in her career . However she is very vague on details at times . I was calling up my geography lessons from a long time ago , eventually she said it's got a big lake . There's really no answer to that !!! I've advised her to try and bag a Mountie and give me some respite :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Take care
polly

wondercollie

Nah, Mounties can be pretty full of themselves. Pay cheque isn't bad though depending on where they work.

Hate to tell you they only wear the red serge on ceremonial duties, the rest of the time they just look like policemen with yellow stripes on their trouser legs. If you see one with his Stetson hat in his squad car, they are usually the meanest ones.

pollyanna_26

wondercollie wrote: »

Nah, Mounties can be pretty full of themselves. Pay cheque isn't bad though depending on where they work.

Hate to tell you they only wear the red serge on ceremonial duties, the rest of the time they just look like policemen with yellow stripes on their trouser legs. If you see one with his Stetson hat in his squad car, they are usually the meanest ones.

But we don't have to tell here that do we? It's rather like policemen in the 60s . I had my eye on a number of them but it was usually a big letdown when they took the helmet off :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
polly