Gaia Cacti's Not-So-Secret Diary

Giants Liverpool . Hello, peeps today's blog is all about my encounter with the Giants in Liverpool.  In October 2018 my mum Melissa, our dog Fudge and I travelled from Cornwall to Liverpool, to visit my Grandma and to see the see the spectacular Giants parade. We had to wait for an hour and a half for them to walk past us but boy was it worth it!  As we had taken Fudge the dog with us  he was getting pretty tired and cold we had to make a makeshift baby carrier from a scarf.  He liked it. Oxlo the dog   We didn't get many pictures but here are some of the best: The little girl giant I know there called Giants but you don't realize how big they really are until you see them in real life. They are at least two stories high!   There was even a band riding along in a van! Fudge seemed to like them too... A lucky shot of Jean-Luc Courcolt the man who invented the Giants Liver...

Our allotment Hello peeps! Today's blog post is about our allotment wich my mum Melissa, our dog Fudge, and I enjoy visiting... As you can see we have a wood burner which we use to keep warm in the winter. Sometimes we even cook potatoes in there, wrapped in tinfoil.   ↜ Over there: we like to take cold drinks to the allotment (in summer) which we drink with our reusable rainbow metal straws! My fave drink of the mo is Karma Cola's 'Lemony Lemonade'. Why not check out their cool ethical website hear:  Karma Cola   Permaculture keyhole bed  Our next allotmenteering adventure is to make a Permaculture keyhole bed. We plan to grow strawberries in the side and veg in the top!    Why not check out this awesome video here:  permaculture video ?   Mist at the allotment. Well, this is the end of this blog post.  Hopefully, we won't get any giant slugs eating our veg. Again.  lov...

Cinnamon Swirls.  Hello, again! Today I thought I would share my recipe for  "Marmite Stars". Which, in the opinion of me, a "Marmite lover", is delicious. (But if you don't like Marmite maybe this post isn't for you).  Marmite Stars.   So here it is:

Paddington bear. Hello, again! Today's blog is all about my first visit to London... Sleeper train to London. Our journey began in the evening at the train station. The pic above is me in the sleeper train passageway.  And as you can see it was super small...    Skipping ahead to the next morning, breakfast options were plentiful.  Portobello Road. After wondering around Paddington station for a while we took the tube to portobello road. There were many interesting shops to wander around..  The Natural history museum. We also visited The Natural History Museum, where there were many interesting fossils . We drew some of them too...   Next, we went to a small exhibition (outside The Natural History Museum) that was a tent that inclosed many free roaming butterflies! I was scared at first... But after a little, while I calmed down and even managed to do a quick drawing! Next, on our...

Me holding our homegrown sunflowers. Hello peeps and welcome to my new blog!  My name is Gaia and I am 13 years old. I am home educated (or world schooled as we like to call it) by my mum Melissa. Here are some things about me; things I love are my large collection of houseplants, pokemon card and Nintendo games, skateboarding, making clay dragons, pomelos (a large grapefruit-like fruit), and taking the family dog Fudge for walks. One of my newly discovered planets.  I am currently pondering worlds within worlds. The picture above is one I took of the stem of a feather viewed down a microscope.      I  am thinking:  "what creatures live in this microscopic world?" "where in the universe does this planet live?" "Could every grain of sand hold another planetary system?" All are worth sitting down with a cup of cocoa and a biscuit to think. Anyway, that's i...