Futurology: Your daily pint of milk goes online

The good news is that with the launch of Dairy Crest's new online service we can: milk floats are back trundling the streets of London - and demand is high.

It's 150 years since the great British milkman first went out on his rounds in a wooden cart but now he's gone digital and online, enabling us to order our gold top with the click of a button rather than a rolled-up note in the empties.

And, unlike the 1850s service, it's not just the white stuff that 2,600 of Britain's milkmen and women are handing over.

Organic vegetables, free-range eggs and bags of compost are making their way to our front doors in electric vans.

To experience the 21st-century dairy delivery, you can log on to Milkandmore.co.uk, place an order and see your groceries - or even pet food and bath cleaner - arrive in time for your morning munchies. You need never have black tea or dry cereal again.

Mike Sheldon from Dairy Crest says: "Milk&more combines the tradition and familiarity of the doorstep milk delivery service with the convenience of online shopping. It's still your local milkman but a brand-new service."

Now we can sleep happy, knowing we won't have to set foot inside a supermarket bleary-eyed and in our trackies ever again.