update

Andre and co have nearly finished painting the outside. From this –

to this –

and you can see even the clivias are blooming with happiness :-)

A quick view of the front, pre-garden reshaping and paving:

And an entirely gratuitous pic of the cross-stitch butterflies I did many years ago to fit an old fire-screen of my grandmother’s. This emerged from the depths of the garage at Moving Time, and I’ve become fond of it all over again. Fire-screen not needed, and legs were always wonky anyway, so it might find itself up on a wall sometime soon.