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It appears to be rather a mess in color-code terms.
That's for sure! However, not noticeably worse than the mess I found in our own house today...
The worst I found is the note scribbled on a basement wall next to a junction box: "Blue - Neutral
White - switch wire
Bare - P"
If there's actually a bare phase somewhere I'm not that surprised we've got some intermittent shorts...