Why would anyone do that?!

Firstly, let me start off by saying that I have about 5 posts sitting in drafts. I was being a bit too lazy to edit the accompanying pics, and more importantly was waiting to upload pics from my beau's camera which show more "professional" snaps of the house's progress, as part of documenting the renovation process.

However, I can wave a very tearful goodbye to those pics as our car got broken into and the camera which my beau had forgotten in the boot of the car as well as the laptop with sole copies of most of our snaps in the last couple of years were stolen. I am very saddened and have been forcing back the tears, that our engagement pics in Venice - including the moment when my beau proposed - that were still on the camera have been taken away from us. My sister-in-law reminded me that despite the crapiness of it all, they hadn't stolen the engagement...I guess with time I'll be able to find some solace in that. I dread to think of the pictures that were on the laptop and how many memories beyond the engagement we have actually lost - excuse me whilst I hold back more tears...

We took about 10 pics of some of the trip on the little snappy snaps camera, but not the actual proposal and the rest of the holiday (of which there were plentiful). Here is one of the pics, to show an example of the hundreds that have now long gone, that captured just how special it all was:

With that too were some of the pics that showed the house in it's very run down state - with walls knocked down, rubble everywhere and the garden as it was before! A lot has happened recently, including walls going back up and being replastered, which unfortunately would have been in the stolen camera. My beau used his professional camera not only for our benefit to see the before and after shots at the end of the transformation, but also so I could have some beautiful shots for this blog. I do have a snappy snaps camera as well as my phone, which I also use to take pics of the progress, but in the last 2 weeks I hadn't taken any pics, which is were the big camera stepped in.

People can be such a disappointment sometimes. Where are the morals in our society when some think it's ok to do this to one another or worse still know that their actions will hurt/destroy another and continue anyway? I hope that I do not maliciously inflict sadness in someone's world and that my mama taught me enough that even subconsciously I know how to carry myself as a useful member of society.

Anyway, I promise I will take LOADS more pics, so you don't miss out beyond this minor blip in the grand scheme and I will upload over the next couple of days all that I have saved in my drafts.

Lesson number 2: make sure you back up EVERYTHING on your camera and laptop!

For now, here are a couple of pics of the kitchen diner during the demolishing phase about 2 weeks ago:

This 1st pic is from the kitchen diner entrance facing what was once two rooms in the downstairs flat - their kitchen and their bathroom at the back. The walls between the two have been demolished!

 This 2nd pic shows the same room but standing towards the back of the room, facing the entrance into the room. Yonder you can see the stairs and daylight glowing from the main door to the house.

The biggest pile of rubble you can see is where an old chimney breast used to be! A major annoyance that chimney breast - party walls (legalese with the neighbour next door), shared flues, thin walls, etc.... Oiiii - I'll divulge the detail another time!

Until next time amigas - keep all your valuables safe!