No problem, a bit of nostalgia can come up, right!
It's nostalgia to me as well, as I can really only remember that little shop with yarn etc (dunno how you call such a shop in English). I'd never seen an old lady like her, with the bun, and the way she was. She was okay, if I remember it well I always got a sweet when we were there. The time women still darned socks, hihi. That's what was mostly sold in that shop I think. Sowing yarn and darning stuff.


What a great story of you and your ex running a dairy like that! I enjoyed reading it :)

We called that type of shop haberdashery. Think the last one I saw was back in the late 60s or early 70s. How times have changed!

haberdashery? Haha, that sounds funny. I've never heard that before, lol. Learning all the time :)
And yes, how times have changed, in a relatively short time too!

Gosh, that just took me back to all the old department stores of my childhood

My ex and I had a dairy for almost 30 yrs. No cows; we pasteurised and bottled the milk and did doorstep deliveries. It was hard work, then as you say, supermarkets came and started selling milk cheaper and we couldn’t compete.

Apologies for going off topic


AMAZING!!!!!!!!

Doorstep deliveries.....ahhhh I remember those. It was better than going out to the store. Wake up in the morning and find your milk at your front door. I miss those days.

Getting groceries delivered for ages. No issues there.

But in work, I have to take people to the shops

I don’t. Had to get up at 4 am, load the vans and start deliveries at 5am and finish by 7.30am. No mean feat in snow and ice. Then get the bottles washed (machines did that), pasteurise the milk then bottle and cap them then store all crates in the fridges by 2pm. Monday, Thursday and Friday nights collect milk money from customers (4hrs each night). Those nights we rarely got to bed before 10.30pm as all the money collected had to be counted and banked. Also had to mark up every customer’s milk account manually (around 3000 - before computers) and 7 day weeks too for all those years.

Nah, don’t miss it one bit.

Ah, home delivered milk, nothing like it, it went away
in the 1960's where I lived in California.

Now, if they were smart, during this crisis, they would
run some of those old milk trucks up and down residential
streets (like the old ice cream trucks) selling their
fresh milk items!

I can understand, sounds like very hard work!
But I think it was like that with many things in the past? Just take the average housewife's day... no vacuum cleaners, no washing machines, no dishwashers etc.
Moving furniture of rugs, dragging them outdoors, heave them over a line to use the carpet beater, then back in.
Washing by hand, wringing with this wringing thing and OMG!! Do we have it easy now, lol.
I can vaguely remember my mom having a zinc wash tub on the stove to do the laundry, then put it through the wash wringer. We had one that was higher up, like a stepladder and the wringer on top.
At some point we got our first washing machine, which was totally exciting haha. Top loader, and occasionally my mom took the drum out, to clean I guess? And I fit in that drum, hihi.
After we got the machine, my sister and I played with the washwringer. Great fun!!
OMG, all these memories!!!

Was it called Delightful Dairy ????

I am American but i live in Cambodia and i only go to the supermarket when I am low on cash or i need to buy things that I cannot find at the market such as cheese and milk. I usually go to the market to buy fresh fruit and vegetables, duck eggs, fresh meat and ginger. I also like to practice my Khmer with the locals. I do similar when I am in China or other countries. I like to interact with locals as much as possible,