Who remembers ?

rockylizard · Guru

Who remembers ?

valiant81 · Senior Member

Yep.....Me, and I was even milk monitor for one term. Come to think about it I would do anything to get out of a bit of school work. It's a shame that we don't still have this type of program today.

Sheba · Guru

Boy I must be ancient. I'd left School a loooooooong time before that came in in Qld. Never had Tuck-shops either.

Cheers,

Sheba.

grill n chill · Senior Member

I remember well also along with ink wells and blotting paper , come to think about it it's been awhile since I have seen a pen nib.

Remember the smell of the old spirit copiers ? The yard rule? Remember once the teacher pulling my shorts down to give me a whack on the bum with it. Don't think that happens much any more.

Remember the first time I saw and used a Biro . Which reminds me about how the Americans spent a millions of dollars inventing a Biro that worked in space and how the Russians decided not to spend the money and just used a pencil.

Oh the old days hey?

Baz421 · Guru

valiant81 wrote:
Yep.....Me, and I was even milk monitor for one term. Come to think about it I would do anything to get out of a bit of school work. It's a shame that we don't still have this type of program today.

Yes I was a milk monitor AND school crossing flag monitor (for more time outside,,lol). Used to drink about 6-8 of these 1/3 pints a day at primary school.

Had to buy milk at high schools in SA.

-- Edited by Baz421 on Monday 2nd of June 2014 09:14:38 PM

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

I just forced meself to google it

So now you had better read all about it as well -

http://education.qld.gov.au/library/edhistory/topics/milk.html

Cheers - John

Baz421 · Guru

rockylizard wrote:
Gday...
I just forced meself to google it
So now you had better read all about it as well -
http://education.qld.gov.au/library/edhistory/topics/milk.html
Cheers - John

Well in SA on hot days we had ice delivered with the milk. 3 crates of milk with ice on the top one would melt and drip on lower bottles,, worked very well and put bags over top on very hot days.

we used to drink heaps of it and the ones left full had to be emptied and bottles washed at end of day.

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

I was a QLDer in the days of this ... I started school in 1952.

So I remember clearly how the QLD milk was sometimes a "bit off" ... and like Baz421 says, the Milk Monitors were required to empty any bottles with milk remaining and then wash (rinse?) all bottles. As a milk monitor, it used to take some time to finish the job - anything to get out of school

AHHHH .... these kids today don't know what they are missing

cheers - John

Joe50 · Guru

Ah, late fifties - memories of drinking milk at the mid-morning 'play time' that had been left in the sun (until a brick cool room was built), along with chomping into a big round bun sliced at the top, with the gap filled with cream, a dollop of jam and sprinkled with icing sugar. Imagine the outcry if that was served to today's kids...

Joe

GaryKelly · Guru

We used to put a pin hole in the foil lid and shake the bottle, squirting milk all over the place. The lids were also turned into mini flying saucers sent spinning through the air with a flick of the index and third fingers. But mostly I remember the taste of the milk after sitting in the sun until play time. Yuck!

Pejay · Guru

Oh yeah I remember the milk bottles to school, with them being left in the sun, so no wonder I dislike milk now. However, I also remember we used to get straws filled with either chocolate or strawberry - do any of you remember those or was that just a NSW thing?

Good grief - had to edit this 'cause it wouldn't let me say the name for NSW State of Origin stuff!

-- Edited by Pejay on Tuesday 3rd of June 2014 08:52:26 AM

03_troopy · Guru

Yes, I remember the flavoured straws. The first time I bought one and brought it home (age about 8) I got a glass of milk and started to drink the milk through the straw, when dad grabbed the straw and said "that straw is filthy, it's been used already" and threw it in the bin... but dad, it's a new thing.. it has flavouring inside.. you buy it that way.. :(

Andrea · Senior Member

grill n chill wrote:
I remember well also along with ink wells and blotting paper , come to think about it it's been awhile since I have seen a pen nib.

John remembers the ink wells too. He once saw a fly land on the ink well during class and blew it away - but a lot of ink sprayed out as well, particularly on his face! Caused quite some hilarity at the time... biggrin

Andrea

johnq · Guru

We must have been lucky at the primaries I attended because the milk was always cool from being placed in the shade. The monitor had a metal spike for piercing the lids.

The aluminium lids for milk bottles came in at least four colours. The discarded rolls from which the tops were punched at the dairy cooperative were popular as Xmas decorations.

Who can remember the cardboard tops for milk bottles?

As I remember, we used to get 3p for empty milk and Coke bottles and 1p for softdrink bottles.

The ink used in the State primary schools I attended was mixed from a base. It was permanent and you would not be getting a spill off your clothes or body in a hurry.

Times when the headmaster (always married) lived in a house next to the school.

-- Edited by johnq on Wednesday 4th of June 2014 08:21:35 PM

Kisha · Senior Member

They were fabulous times, all that cream under the foil top, yum. I remember going into the store to buy some of those flavored straws, it turned my milk pink and I thought I was so crash hot lol. And I loved the bottles of Long Tom cool drink you would take out of the ice water. I would try and get Mums shopping done real quick which included, reckitts blue lol, Persil and Handy Andy, done in record time so I could get home and watch The Micky Mouse Club with Spin And Marty. They truly were great days....Kisha