{"id":137,"date":"2023-04-26T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalwanderings.co.uk\/lima\/?p=137"},"modified":"2023-04-26T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T15:53:09","slug":"from-one-day-to-the-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalwanderings.co.uk\/lima\/2023\/04\/26\/from-one-day-to-the-next\/","title":{"rendered":"From one day to the next"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

They say a week is a long time in politics. Well, the same could be said for the house: 2 weeks in and it’s completely gone! Okay, not gone but really only three and a half walls remain. Builders? Demolishers! The two men and their crane have slowly but surely taken away the roof, chimney, floor, inner walls and one outer wall, the extension and the huge pile of enormous stones that had supported the wood burning oven. <\/p>\n\n\n

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They have also removed the huge stone tank and the smaller stone troughs. One in fact was for preserving: the pig meat would be left in there and covered with salt. No freezers in those days.<\/p>\n\n\n

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These are now outside, waiting for us to decide exactly what we are going to do with them. The larger one was sawn into slabs before being lifted out. Some kind of pond we think…<\/p>\n\n\n

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It has been fascinating to watch. You wouldn’t want this landing on your head:<\/p>\n\n\n\n