It certainly was for me – at least, once I'd learned to stop taking milk in my coffee.
Margaret had become involved in a silly row, where the Labour party and the newspapers decided that taking milk from schoolchildren was a dreadful, Victorian thing to do.
She imagined a future call-up, the open-faced conscripts; a quick horrid fantasy of fear and protections; taking milk to the cellar.
The name of the type genus Caprimulgus, goatsucker, derives from an ancient belief that the birds seen flitting about the goats at dusk were taking milk from the goats' udders, a misconception no doubt fortified by the birds' uncommonly large mouths.
Subjects supplied with milk brands 1 and 2 exhibited a significant increase in total cholesterol level, while it dropped significantly in subjects taking milk brand 3, while no changes were observed in other groups.
Analysis of covariance showed that after adjusting for baseline 25(OH D, age, gender and BMI, the mean 25(OH D levels of children who were taking vitamin D tablet (9.1 ± 0.8 nmol/l) and milk brand 4 were significantly higher (7.3 ± 1.1 nmol/l) than children taking milk brand 2 (1.6 ± 1.0 nmol/l).
