WASHING CYCLE...

1. Go to laundry basket.
2. Separate stuff into "types" of wash (i.e. "running gear" or "stuff that gets a boiling")
3. Take one of the piles.
4. Place in machine and turn on.
5. Once machine has ceased chuntering away and filling the house with its awful cacophony of dissonance - remove wet stuff.
6. Place stuff carefully on drier.
7. Stand and look at wee blue plastic measuring cup full of liquid still sitting on the draining board.
8. Curse loudly
9. Wonder if you "could get away with it".
10. Decide "no".
11. Take stuff back ofF clothes horse and return to 4.....(remembering the liquid).