Interview With A Milkman -1996- -2021- _hot_ -

David ‘Dai’ Henshaw passed the milk bottle he was fidgeting with across the table. It was a heavy, embossed pint, circa 1998. He keeps one on his mantelpiece. It is, perhaps, the last unbroken thing from a world that no longer needs waking up.

If you told me in 1996 that I'd still be delivering milk in 2021, I would have told you that you were out of your mind. The late 90s and 2000s were brutal. Independent dairies were closing left and right. I had to switch companies twice because employers went bankrupt. But then, something strange happened around 2015. Interviewer: What changed? Interview With A Milkman -1996- -2021-