once-more-to-be-washed-and-dried

Updated: May 17, 2025

Then a nominal half-an-hour's respite for my own tea actually ten minutes, for I was behindhand. Then, all too soon, more waitering at the ceremony of Dinner: this time with the complication that some of my patients were allowed wine, beer, or spirits, and some were not. "Burgundy, Sir?" "Whiskey-and-soda, Sir?" Mappin and her renewed mountain of once-more-to-be-washed-and-dried crockery.

Ward Muir - Observations of an Orderly: Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital