Alien visitors

Staying at my sister's. She doesn't like fish so now has a fishtank full of cacti. I always thought they looked a bit other-worldly.

Most of these cacti are mine, abandonned to my mother's care when I left home. From the looks of them mam took the 'desert environment' requirement to extremes so it's good my sis has saved them.

The sausage shaped one at the front is 22 years old and is named 'Fred' after a French boy I met on a cross-channel ferry on my first trip abroad (another blipper may remember this - she, not surprisingly, got the good-looking bloke).