I did everything: looking after the kids, making sure their boots were clean, the kit was packed, everything was spick and span.
We do everything from the annual cleaning of the ballroom chandeliers and making sure the ballroom dance floor is spick and span, to dealing with the contractors who look after the extensive restoration project on the tower's girders.
Rai University is spick and span whereas JNU is sprawling and untidy.
The first sandwich shop is spick and span, with floors that you could eat off of.
The buffers make sure the vessel is "spick and span," the engineers keep it "up and running," and the communications team is its "eyes and ears".
Things are different in Shenzhen, China's original Special Economic Zone SEZZ), a stone's throw from Hong Kong.The subway station at Qianhai bay, on the city's west coast, is spick and span, with a full complement of signs, announcements and billboards, including one for a performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, sponsored by Classy Kiss milk.
The car was spick and span.
Sean McConville hit the post twice and Luke McCormick pulled off a number of impressive saves to ensure his sheet was spick and span.
With such measures China's capital will surely be spick and span by September 22nd, when the 11th Asian Games open there.But why all the effort?
The difference is that the names are spelled in English, the streets are spick and span, and the crowds look uniformly prosperous.Not only look, but are.
