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Children under the age of five in approved childcare are provided with a third of a pint of milk a day.

In 1940 milk was issued to pregnant women and young children to protect them against wartime food shortages.

My son loved school milk but my daughter (and most of her friends) did not.
i know for a fact that at their school lots of milk was wasted and thrown away!!


edit: regarding funeral processions we were always taught to respect a passing cortege.
I always stand at the roadside, would never ever try and pass while driving.
But I'm afraid there are a lot of ignorant folk in this world of ours.:-(

when I was young it was practice to stand still when a cortege passed

I would have been shocked too Errol and tempted to speak to her with regard to her behaviour, especially as customers were within earshot.


What is happening to the respect and dignity once associated with death and grief?


I found this article - from 2011

SHOW some respect.

That’s the call from a funeral director overseeing the final journeys of loved ones in Bournemouth and Poole as a new report reveals one in six drivers has witnessed motorists swearing and making hand gestures at corteges.

Steven Dabin, area manager for the Poole and Bournemouth division of Co-operative Funeral Care, said grieving families travelling to funerals were left distressed by rude drivers.

“I’m afraid it is true. There is a lack of courtesy shown sometimes.

“We drive slowly as a mark of respect, and that tends to create a queue behind us.

“If people see us coming, they try to get in front of us, even to the point of people cutting into the middle of the cortege between the hearse and the family’s car,” he said.

One in 12 drivers quizzed by the survey said they didn’t know that it was considered respectful not to overtake the funeral procession.


Doesn't say much for our society, does it? :-(

Lynda, as Alan Sugar alledgedly remarked (No I am not a fan of his) ' most of those protesting were feeding from teats in the 80s'.

I wonder?!!! I seem to remember (to my shame) throwing the daily milk ration down the sink, as did most of my friends particularly as we got older! I think it was a Labour government that stopped free milk in Secondary Schools in the 1960's; (we never hear about that) Mrs T stopped it in Primary Schools, but of course is vilified, leading a lot of people who probably weren't even born to now be under the impression that she was responsible for the stoppage of free milk in ALL schools! a tad unfair, but then rioting in the streets to celebrate the death of someone who has been out of power for the past 20 odd years is not only unfair but completely moronic. Destroying peoples livelihoods is exactly what Mrs T was, and is accused of - well what in heavens name were they doing last night in Bristol? destroying shops and business's!!!! doesn't make sense, again completely pathetic!!!

Putting up tax rates on the higher earners was not an option in the 1970's they already paid income tax of 75% for those earning abt 20K plus and with surcharges and taxes on investments it was as high as 90% which led to people leaving the UK taking their money, investment, and skills with them

Roy

a lot of them looked far too young to have known what it was all about

If I remember correctly a pint of milk was about 5 or 6d in "old money" in 1970, that's about 2 and a half pence. My Mum was a milk lady for my school in the early 50's, and the milk had to be left near a radiator to keep warm :-0
I doubt schools would be able to have milk now anyway, children can't take it in to school in there packed lunch, and the schools wouldn't be able to keep it at the right temperature, that it's needed to be kept at.

As for rent a mob, a lot of them don't know what they are protesting about, they just like a day out to cause trouble :-( I went to "view" the camp site outside St Pauls, when the mob took it over, although there were mobile toilets provided, urine ran down the square, there was graffiti everywhere, notes stuck on shop windows, tents everywhere, with hardly anyone staying in them, a book tent a food tent, and a tent for "ladies who felt vulnerable", what's that about ? it looked disgusting. I have no problem with people protesting, but i do have a problem with those who have no respect for others, and those who do it, just for the sake of it :-(

the thing is Guinevere - Margaret Thatcher never suffered deprivation of any kind - we were very poor indeed when I was a child though I never felt deprived, but in comparison to her I probably was - no bathroom, no indoor toilet, no electricity, had to walk everywhere, including two miles each way to school along a country road from when I was five years old

Ok, no probs. Off to work now.

Wonderful man, Ann. And not a terrorist.

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one Guinevere...I don't consider removing free school milk where it was no longer rationed and readily available as stealing from the weak......sorry.

Nelson Mandela - now there is a hero if ever there was one - a lovely gentle man who did so much for his country in spite of what his country did to him

Stealing from the weak is bad politics whatever your party.

The money saved was a drop in the ocean and put some farmers who relied on it to keep going out of their dairy farms.

Did Mrs Thatcher once refer to Nelson Mandela (ANC) as a 'terrorist' ?

Ooops

I never like the school milk either Janet...it was always warm...stank from the floating cream on top of the bottle and reeked the classroom out in the summer lol.

It put me off drinking milk for years.

**edit** but I like Ice cream too :-D

I was shocked this afternoon.
I was leaving the library. At the top of the stairs there was a small group of pensioners discussing Thatcher and how marvelous they thought she was.
One of the library assistants - a middle aged lady who had worked there for years and should know better - was standing on the stairs listening to them and laughing at them (they could not see her but could hear her).
She was obviously going on her lunch break because she then walked down the stairs and out of the door singing at the top of her voice "What a happy day, what a happy day, she's gone".
I find that sort of behaviour somewhat despicable and totally inexcusable.

Well from what I understand at the time the top rate of tax was already at around 75%....you can only milk the same cow so much !! (pardon the pun).

I never liked school milk.................

...................I've always liked ice-cream though-j

I'm no Thatcher fan, no way, but why aren't these demonstrators working?

How much money and damage will this rent a mob waste on something so puerile to get their anger satisfied?
We cannot change history,and who knows what the alternative to those years would have been had we had another leader!
Where do they get the money from?.I know that I have always been taught to waste not ,want not,and to me all these mobs do is to cause disruption to services and cost the country a lot of money.
Disgusting!...we could have been a lot worse off!,