ABB125
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My maternal grandparents have live in their house for something like 40 years (I'm not sure exactly when they moved in, but it would have been the late 1970s/early 1980s). It's certainly rather... different!
- No central heating, though I'm not sure why - there are radiators fitted. From various conversations I've had, as well as some nosing about, I think they may have had a solid-fuel boiler at one point, but it must have broken and never been replaced. For years, the only heating was plug-in electric radiators (in selected rooms only), but a couple of years ago they installed a large wood burner that's been in the family in storage for years. Obviously it helps when you own your own woodland and (amongst other things) sell logs! Incidentally, I wonder why we have a wood burner at home as well...
- Old telephone with an old-fashioned-sounding ring (a bit like an old wind-up alarm clock). It also looks like a rotating-dial phone, just with a numberpad instead.
- Old thin worn carpets, lots of 1970s furniture etc
- Ancient "sound system", including amplifier, enormous (think 1m high, 40cm wide) wooded-framed stand-alone speakers (that would have cost a fortune when bought; currently they're serving as a surface to store paperwork on!) and record turntable. Looking rather incongruous next to the enormous something like 60-inch television that the Currys salesperson convince my grandad to buy!