While wading through a pile of washing the other day, my daughter who has a pretend washing machine asked if she could have some to do herself.

I picked out a couple of things for her to take away and ‘wash’.

Later that day I collected the items I had given her to put in with the rest of the load I was about to put on.

She followed me into the utility, watched me pick up a dress (one of the items I had previously given her), took it off me and said "I’ve already washed that one!"