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‘At first I thought it was just one of those
crazy ideas that students have. But then
I remembered that when I was young we
always ended up in the kitchen.
So why not have the party in the cosiest
place from the start?’ We couldn’t agree
more and see that the other guests are as
enthusiastic as we are.
Son Michael gets a bottle of sparkling
wine from the fridge while Lilly opens
the wall cabinet with the glasses. She
touches the cabinet and the front lifts up
elegantly. The guests are amazed.
‘SERVO-DRIVE,’ she says with a proud
grin, taking out the glasses and pressing
a button (within easy reach) to close the
cabinet again.
Sarah and Angela’s friends decide to go
on a little tour of the kitchen. When
party guest Rahim slams a drawer, his
girl-friend Alyssia (prepared for a loud
noise) gives him a warning nudge. But
the drawer closes softly – to Alyssia’s
amazement and to the amusement of the
other guests who have beenwatching the
situation. Alyssia turns to her Rahim
‘I wish our kitchen could do that, too.’
Rahim, always a pragmatist, answers
‘Good thing we’ve seen this kitchen
before we buy our own. There are
lots of ideas here that we can
take away with us.’ In the
meanwhile, Lilly has
managed to light the
candles on the cake
without
anyone
noticing. A loud
round of ‘Happy
Birthday to You’ is
followed by ap-
plause for the two sisters
– and perhaps for the party loca-
tion, too. Lilly puts the birthday cake
on the worktop and goes over to the cor-
ner. Just as the guests think they’ve dis-
covered all the kitchen has to offer, they
are amazed once more. The drawer with
the cake knife glides open from the cor-
ner cabinet. The guests are astounded.
‘This is my SPACE CORNER,’ says
Lilly in passing, secretly chuffed by the
reactions her new kitchen is triggering
with her guests. And so even cutting the
cake turns out to be a little event. At this
momentwe recognise another advantage
of a kitchen party: everything’s within
easy reach and immediately to hand! Just
as we are about to try a slice, we hear a
loud smacking sound and curiously turn
round to find out who it is. Oliver the
dog has also discovered the cake and is
giving us a hungry stare. ‘All this excite-
ment has made us forget you,’ says Lilly
laughing and gives the dog a piece of cake.
In a kitchen like this, a dog’s life is not
so bad after all.
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