He's at it again.....

.....and it's all part of the great plan!  R, out in the freezing cold this afternoon, moving great big bits of stone.  They're going to stand either side of some steps he's going to build.  I'm assured that it'll all come together one day........

I've been cleaning (not something I do naturally) as we have some cousins coming for the night.  If I kept it all up together it wouldn't be such a task but I don't and so it is!

Thank you all for your generous comments on yesterday's dying tulip.  I even made it into the lower end of the Popular pages - not something that happens often to me.