In 1991 I took a photo of our back yard, resplendent with fourteen trees up in the top tier.

As you can see, I used the word “resplendent” in an ironic way. On such a large block (over 1200 square metres, or almost one third of an acre), those trees looked quite lost.

Still, when you consider we started with a shell on a paddock, it is all relative, and you may understand how thrilled we were at this limited progress.