We buy skimmed milk at the supermarket, which has red tops, but the skimmed milk from the
milkman had blue tops.
He has now decided to cut short his time as a
milkman - he would have celebrated fifty years in the job in August.
But before we can discuss the events in
Milkman, we have to talk about the distinctive first-person voice of middle sister.
Milkman is the Northern Irish author's third full-length novel and her first major award.
London [UK], Oct 17 ( ANI ): Northern Irish writer Anna Burns was announced the winner of the 50th Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her book titled '
Milkman'.
A Liverpool bride arrived at her wedding in a MILK FLOAT - in a tribute to her beloved dad's job as a
milkman.
Our photograph, taken at Newcastle's Noble Street flats in 1971, shows the once familiar sight of a
milkman on his daily round.
By Ruth
Milkman. University of Illinois Press, 2016, 328 pp., $28.00 paperback.
But industry experts believe the traditional
milkman is set for a comeback, thanks to the growing backlash against plastic bottles.
But in 1970 almost 99 per cent of milk was still delivered to the door - with comedian Benny Hill even making the charts with his hit Ernie (The Fastest
Milkman in THEWEST), one of former Prime Minister David Cameron's Desert Island Discs picks.
So much so, that on one occasion he is rumoured to have kidnapped his
milkman and taken him to London for a two-day drinking binge.