We thought we'd lost our milkman, but we haven't!

To explain - when we went off to Sidmouth we stuck a note in a milk bottle outside our house saying "no milk till further notice". We came back and stuck another note saying "Milk as usual" - but none arrived. And then we passed the milk depot and there were big "To Let" signs on it.

Horrible thought - the milk round had ended. The 'Oggie Man is nothing to this, there's always been a milkman, it's one of the things by which you know the country hasn't gone completely round the bend. And yet we knew that most of our neighbours don't have milk delivered - we get milk from the supermarket every now and then, most people do it all the time.

But then there came a plaintive note from the dairy about our cancelling the milk, and it turned out it was all a mistake, and we're getting it delivered once more.

But we know that it probably won't be long before it really does end. I think it's a real shame the world is heading inexorably in that direction.

Here comes the milkman, Thomas Tripp the milkman.
Can you hear the milkman with his jangle jingle jang ?
What does it matter if the bottles make a clatter ?
One doesn't want to chatter over jangle jingle jang.

That's "Thomas Tripp the Milkman" from Gordon Murray's groundbreaking animation series Camberwick Green.