Guava today, gone tomorrow

We spent most of today working outside - something that hasn't happened since last year - and what a treat to be sore and full of aches and pains after a day of hard labour in the garden. Our guava tree arch, about nine years in the making,  has been reduced to a pile of mulch with the chipper. The resident fruit bat has had to find alternate accommodation - and the secret garden is secret no more. We plan to re-install seating and more quiet spaces ...  hard to believe that less than ten years ago, there was nothing planted at all ... then came a man and his dream.