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Washed clean of lasting prejudice

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From: The Nelson Mail
Date: 20040810
Author:O'CONNOR Teresa

"Sweet dishwasher, loveliest appliance of my life/ Where water and chemicals cheer'd the labouring wife."

ith sincere apologies to Oliver Goldsmith, I have felt compelled to write an ode to the benefits, to the joys, to the sheer magnificence of the dishwasher.

This is not only a song of praise to the plump white machine that sits contentedly in my kitchen, doing its work uncomplainingly and diligently. It is also a story of conversion and of apology.

Once, when I was young and foolish, I loathed dishwashers. I thought of them as an excuse for laziness, an environmental hazard, a mark of ...

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