There never seemed to be an optimum time of year to drink those small bottles of school milk.
In the winter they were always half frozen from standing outside in the yard until playtime, and in summer they were always warm and more cream than actual milk, which invariably made you want to gag.
But Maggie (“Thatcher the milk snatcher”) eventually fixed that little problem for us.
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