I should be going back there in the next few days, next time they have some sort of gathering/party. Also got some cable offcuts from work I can use to make their phone lines and broadband better and safer as this is two old houses joined together into one and they were built before telephones were invented, and when they did get them the phone lines are in the front corridor. The telephone they would have had was mounted on the wall in the front hallway (many English houses did not get the telephone until the 1980s and even in the 1990s many rotary phones existed!).
So at present there is a cheap extension cord with a bit of wood over it (as that is one trip you do not want!) but its cheap nasty cable which makes the broadband slow.
That reminds me I was going to work out how they could listen to their music across the entire building, and set up an intercom system between the two kitchens (they have voluntarily agreed not to text each other as it led to arguments over the washing up, and the equitable distribution of some things like colanders etc :laugh_at: )
I’ll have to ask them where they got the camels from (there are a number of them around the building). they have only just moved in recently so the place is still half building site, and it is in the North European style of architecture from the 1800s as found in both England and Holland with many narrow corridors and tall staircases. At one point it was a guest house for actors travelling between theatres in London and Norwich.
The last few pics with that “1980” era office is where the food coop admin is done from. our local food co-op isn’t as big as an American one, we don’t have that big shop they only meet up every two weeks!
