Latest addition to the office – glass to be used as whiteboard-y thing:

To follow, maybe: photo behind it.

Now snuggly nuzzling above the cooker.
Construction by Jo.
Corks by many friends. And us.

In other news: things are afoot in Casa Wrensch.
We are prepping for winter by having Mr Lovely Curtain Guy in (both him and his curtains are Lovely) throwing curtains up all around the lounge.
Last winter was a little bit chilly.

We are also having Cool Builder Guy come back to do various little things.
Nothing as epic as the original renovations – just some fix-ups and stuff. Mainly the dry-rotted floor (mutter, grumble).

Ambassador Kosh. Hallway plant extraordinaire:

Ficus. Was unhappy in the front garden, so we put it in a red thing. Now it happy :) .

Frangipani. Came to the house as a leafless stick, from Casa Tanya (thanks!)

Two new climby jobbies – on the tree, and on the pergola (Wisteria o’ Doom! Growing at a sillyfast pace).

Middle of the succulent patch, finally filled: yay!

Close-up of the amazing airbabymaker:

Along the edges of the leaves, it grows little babies. The babies grow roots, then they fall off and plunge the roots into the ground. They grow up so fast… *sniff*

The Amazing Miracle Tree TM:

Hopefully Parfles will correct me if I’m wrong, but this thing is about a year old and it’s already over 2m tall. Holy leafy goodness, Batman!

And now for some furniture.
2nd-hand bench, painted and shinied by Parfles:

Beautiful (and comfortable) bench bought for us by Eck (thank you!):

Screen for outside shower, made from old shutters, painted and installed by Parfles, with unexpected finishing help from Jean, on Sunday.

Apologies for the low-level commentary.
Work crazy!
Me crazy!
Mad people crazy!
It’s crazy!

The front garden exploded into greeny awesomeness, though. Thusly:

Also, we’re in the process of remixing the study / library / my office. First step has been to paint the bit of wall by the bay window (browny green), the bookcases (limey green), and for Jo to make little shelves and legs to raise the bookcase up over the skirting board and more them towards the wall. Thusly:

Also:

Wine rack re-installed
(Yay! No more piles of cardboard boxes in the hallway.
Now we just need to: buy lots more wine to fill it up; put something cool on the wall next to it).

Jo made an awesome coat rack (pictured here naked) in the hallway, round the corner
(Yay! No more wild coats roaming the hall, grazing on the cardboard boxes).

In other news: we are considering painting the outside of the house.
Probably green.
Maybe just the back bit.
Colour splats, applied today:

The two on the right are starting to look like the right kind of thing…

More samples, senor!

awesome, eh?