I have only been to The Point twice since it opened as I can’t walk, and using the underground car park.

I had to go to exchange a gift and got there when the massive blackout had started, so most of the shops were in darkness and the escalators weren’t working.

Some of the shops and the lifts were operational but unfortunately not the shop I wanted.

After sitting there for over an hour waiting for the power to return I gave up and I left.

What made me feel so very sad going to Tigné was seeing a once very beautiful part of Sliema being turned into towering blocks.

My aunt and uncle used to live in a house in St Mary Street corner with Matthew Pulis Street, and I loved going there before all the rampant building took over. From their house we had a panoramic view of Valletta and Manoel Island.

My grandmother had one of those huge, beautiful houses where the main entrance was in St Agatha Street and the back on the seafront. It’s still there but now it’s just dwarfed by more and more towering flats blocking all the sun.

What makes me even sadder is the fact that my children and their children will never know how beautiful the Tigné area once was.

Will the madness ever stop? I don’t think so, and soon this lovely island of ours will be just one concrete mass of buildings and nothing else, with no sun anywhere, where children would hardly dare set foot outside because of all the traffic, and where what was once a peaceful, little island will be turned into a concrete jungle.