Slave labour ahoy!

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I've found a few moths a-fluttering around the kitchen lately, so I decided that cleaning out the pantry was the needful thing to do.

Not that we'd actually have a pantry, mind you. When these mass accommodations were built, back in the 1960s and 1970s, people responsible for them decided, in their endless wisdom, that pantries are a waste of space and that a corner cupboard in the kitchen would suffice. Therefore literally thousands of families in this city live without any sensible storage space for their food. Because (surprise, surprise!) they use quite some parts of aforementioned kitchen cupboard to store their pans and baking tins and rolling pins and... I'm sure you get the picture. The actual kitchen cupboards (above the barely existing working surface) are just big enough for the cups and plates.

Hungarians are a resourceful people, though, so they found various and highly creative ways to solve the problem. Our solution was to have shelves put up in a totally useless little niche between the bathroom and the built-in wardrobes. Up to the ceiling. So I was hopping on and off our little two-step ladder all morning to empty those shelves, open every box and check for moth larvae, clean the shelves and put everything back again, in a (hopefully) more logical order than before. Now I might be able to find my baking supplies a bit easier than before.

For the record: no moth younglings were found. The fully developed ones must have been visiting from the outside - until I murdered them with extreme prejudice.

As a result of this, my back is now worse than it was, and no creative work was done today. But there are some things that have to be done, no matter the costs.

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Our neighbours have a freezer in their anteroom, just opposite the entrance door. They have to squeeze themselves along it every time they go from the kitchen to the living room and back. Which is why we opted for a combined fridge-freezer that fit into the only niche left between the kitchen sink and the corner cupboard...