That's it!

I don't want another day like today!
It started when I woke this morning and heard the wind. I pulled a pair of trousers and a jersey over my nightie and headed out to make sure the bin on the street was OK.
As I opened the door and looked down the drive I saw it blow onto the carriageway of the main road, on its side. I ran down the drive and rescued it, fortunately there was a rare gap in the rush hour traffic.
I rewarded myself with a coffee in bed while I did the puzzles and caught up with blip.
next I bit the bullet and got the packaging ready to return my phone to Google. I've been in conversation with them over the last few days and they've been very helpful and agreed that my smashed camera lens can be considered a warranty claim. I found the lens smashed one day in my bag, nothing has happened to it, it was just smashed. I googled after it happened and apparently, it's a recognised fault. The lens is damaged from the inside by the zoom zooming too far...... or something like that. The problem is nobody knows about it so unless you go direct to Google you end up paying. Sending it back though meant I had to wipe it and rest it to factory settings which was a terrifying(for me) experience. My life, like many other peoples is on my phone and the pictures go back to 2007 and Kathryn's wedding and I know I have them backed up several times, but still..... I took the phone to EE at the Gyle which is where the Google repair centre is based. They were very helpful however they couldn't get my sim to work in my old Huawei phone. The member of staff was very helpful though and confirmed I'd backed up everything in sight. When we put the sim in my old phone, everything except the Vodafone connection, was working however all the sms and WhatsApps sent and received since I got the new phone, had disappeared. I headed along to Vodafone to see if they could help. Once there, the sim decided to connect to Vodafone after all so, with the assistant 's help, I bit the bullet and hit reset. There was still no sign of the lost WhatsApps or messages but I decided there was nothing I could do, the phone needed to be fixed. I am hoping that it is all part of the Google/US government/China /Spy accusations thing and that when I go to my new google phone everything (which is definitely backed up) will magically reappear. I believe there are fairies at the bottom of the garden too, looking after all those babies who are lying under gooseberry bushes waiting for a stork to deliver them!
My blip is of the package with my phone in it, which was the only picture I took today. I delivered it to the DHL Express counter in WH Smith. Fingers crossed now.
I decided after all that I needed some lunch and a relax in M&S. I sat down and had just finished my soup when I decided to see if I could find the WhatsApp album of photos which I had taken through the What's App app. It was definitely gone though. Then when I looked in the photo album I went cold. All of my photos since 18th July had gone too - Cappadocia, all of the girls' birthdays, Bonnie's first month and her only meeting with her great grandmother. I was quite distraught. I could only assume that when the images had done a back up they had for some reason backed up the most recent contents of the Huawei photo album as the latest version and overwritten what had been there previously. I drove home, fortunately those gooseberry bush fairies must have been watching over me and those who may have crossed my path and I got there safely.
I switched off our home WiFi so nothing else could update itself and rewrite over what was still there. I phoned my 'go to' IT fixit place only to be told that they don't repair android phones. I was so gobsmacked that I didn't join the dots enough to say it wasn't the android phone that was the problem it was the Google back up. I had wanted to know how I could revert to a previously saved version, which I thought should be possible.
I checked my laptop and to my joy my pictures were still on there. I found my only usb drive that fits my macbook and prepared to try to work out how to copy everything across.
At that point I went back to my phone and opened the Google photos app, it was then that I realised that I had looked in the phone camera's pictures album before and not the Google photos app. What a numpty..... All my pictures safe and sound. It took a long time for my pulse rate to slow down.
No sign of my texts or what's apps, but they have paled into insignificance now. I'll have lost lots of useful info but not 6 months of unrepeatable images. Thank goodness for small mercies, putting things into perspective.