I do miss the blue cap milk; the only thing you had to watch out for, where I was growing up, was the damned magpies. Nothing could sour your morning mood more when going in to bring in the milk, and to find out the flying rats have pierced the foil and had their dirty beak inside it.

Yes and the little finches also. The cream would rise to the top of the milk in those days....it doesn't seem to now!! It was the cream the birds were after. i think that in the area I was living what made me cancel my milk delivery was that they changed the shape of the bottles, making it harder to carry multiple bottles at once- the spout became shorter.