Z-Cars, Bottle tops and Höfner

Wandering round Oakham Museum in Rutland I spotted these old games.

Z-Cars was a great TV show. Don't think I had the game but I had the annual.

Did you?

They also had milk bottle tops! Remember those!

Out and about last night there I spotted a gorgeous electric guitar, another area I'd collect if I was rich.

A Höfner Colorama from 1961.

This is what it would it would look like in daylight! (Seen online in another shop).

Wow!

WHAT'S IN YOUR FRIJJ?

When I was a kid I got home from school and drank a glass of flavoured milk. Usually strawberry or banana in those days, courtesy of Nesquick powder.

Nowadays I like Crusha milkshake syrup if I can get hold of it or more likely than not I drink a ready-made flavoured milkshake after work.

These range from Moo Milk to Frijj. I stare in wonder at tins of Chocomel but it's too dear.

Now when it comes to Frijj I'm having a milky debate with myself. Which is better tasting, their Chocolate Fudge Brownie flavour or the Cookie Dough flavour?

Bath fantastically delicious, my money is on Frijj chocolate fudge brownie. Yours?

Do you have something nice after work or after a hard day's retirement?

AMERICAN NOSTALGIA: BORDEN'S CONDENSED MILK

Terranova47 of the USA sent me this link of a nearby archaeological landmark, the first condensed milk factory in America. Sweet!

I see a lot of references to State Parks in the US. Just how big are they?

https://www.fosa-ct.org/Reprints/Fall2015_BordensCondensed.htm

IT'S ABOUT LIME!

Nothing can bring back the salty, sandy, sunny feel of my Sixties childhood holidays at the seaside like the taste of ...... lime milkshake!

Yes, lime milkshake was the very essence of a great time on our classic British staycations back in the swinging decade. You could get milkshakes everywhere. Beach cafes, high street cafes, corner cafes and even milk bars dedicated to ... milk.

I know chocolate milkshake was pretty damn fine and banana rocked but lime, lime was just special. The green colour was pale enough to make it look good - an acceptable green, a palatable green - and the taste, my word. Citrusy, a slight tang, the only word for it would be lime. Lime connoisseurs might detect hot orchards, billowing Tuareg tents and the breath of the Nile but I get sand, sea and sunshine in Burnham on Sea!

The good news, no, great news, is that lime milkshake is back!

Crusha, that wonderful milky company, have kindly re-issued it and my daughter got me a bottle for Fathers Day. I've been gurgling the stuff ever since! I've even tried it with ice but haven't yet topped it off with vanilla ice cream as I want the unadulterated taste of limes for now. Garnish comes later.

Lime isn't univerally popular though. I tried a straw poll and gave a friend some this week ... with a straw. Nope, the faced curled up as if she'd eaten a raw lemon and the drink went largely unfinished. It was difficult for me pouring a tall glass of green milk down the drain I can tell you!

But for me lime is King and Queen of milkshakes, the one to ask for whichever cafe you end up in and the one that brings back the memories of marvellous childhood seaside places I've never been back to: Clevelelys, Heysham Head, Great Yarmouth, Ilfracombe, Abersoch and Burnham on Sea.

The sun is out so I think I'll have a glass-full now!

Do you like lime milkshake? Do you have a nostalgic drink?

MYSTERY TOY MILK BOTTLES

Anyone recognise these small plastic crates of toy milk bottles?

The pen is for scale?

Are they off a toy vehicle?