• About,  life

    Move 2020

    This is a hard post to write even now as to be honest I am still a little very annoyed about the whole thing… So this will be fairly brief (clearly on the edit it isn’t brief who was I kidding… it is only on here as it kinda – well definitely does have bearing on the journey however not essential reading!). After being led to believe that we could stay – live where we were we were given 3 months notice – they wanted / needed to sell the property ASAP… given the climate EG Covid it turned out they couldn’t actually give us notice but I just wanted…

  • About,  Me

    About Me

    So 2020 I started to plant and grow seedlings – I got very excited and I so desperately wanted a greenhouse – lockdown madness hit!!! – I couldn’t justify the cost of a ‘real’ greenhouse (EG glass) as we were in rented and moving it was never going to be something that was going to happen… but I knew I wanted something – so after a lot of searching – everyone was going crazy in lockdown and stocks of things were low to none existent… I enlisted the help of my ‘better’ half ( you have to keep them sweet so they keep helping!) and his seriously and I do…

  • About,  life,  Me

    About Me General

    Hello welcome to Cactus Girl as this space is called at the moment – this is a project in progress – I chose this name for a blog site many moons ago nothing todo with planting or gardening or Cactus for that matter – I was having a life melt down (I mean like Pre-COVID who could imagine you would!?!) and crying to my husband (crying is a huge part of my life) and saying I just feel so bloody prickly like a… like a… and he said Cactus… me – yeah I guess so… more LOTS more tears… possibly wailing… on my part We decided it maybe cathartic if…