Mermaid Melusine reports:
We love this beautiful photo-collage that was made by the POPSY charity in South Wales after Mermaid Ondine's recent appearance at their mermaid swim event! POPSY is a great charity which supports families whose youngsters are blind, have special needs or life limiting conditions. Mermaid Ondine had a wonderful time meeting and swimming with the POPSY families before joining them for a great party on dry land, featuring some truly amazing mermaid cupcakes! We're hoping to see more of the POPSY family soon.

Mermaid Ondine reports:
We've put together a video from a few short clips taken backstage at our recent photoshoot at the Peterborough Aquatheatre! You can see our real mermaids in action, modelling underwater in both mermaid and human form.

If you're a photographer and you'd be interested in taking part in one of our future underwater shoots, you can contact us and request to be added to our photography mailing list, to be kept up to date with future opportunities to shoot real UK mermaids in their natural element!

We're delighted to announce that Merlesque mermaid Lily La Mer will be appearing at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Cheshire, UK on Sunday the 20th July! It's your chance to see a magical real life mermaid swimming before your very eyes, amongst a host of spectacular sea creatures including sand tiger sharks.

Our mermaid will be appearing for three swimming sessions throughout the day in the aquarium's shark tunnel, after which she will be available at the side of the tank for a chat and photographs - so you can meet a mermaid in the flesh, and find out a little more about her life under the sea.

You can even save £3 off all tickets to the Blue Planet Aquarium on the 20th by using this voucher available from Wrexham Savers. The aquarium is open 10am to 6pm, which means that in addition to seeing a beautiful real life mermaid swimming amongst exotic sharks and fish, you can take the whole day to explore the underwater world that mermaids inhabit. So why not join us for a magical Mermaid Sunday on the 20th July - it's sure to be unforgettable!

We thought this topic was a fun chance not only to explore exactly what our mermaidenly guilty pleasures are, but also to find out a little bit more about what passes for a guilty pleasure in the human world!  So Mermaid Melusine and I put together a ten-minute musical comedy cabaret act with four songs on a variety of subjects including (but not limited to) human dating, capitalism, and that most mermaidy pastime: causing shipwrecks. Sadly, I can't go into further detail without revealing mermaid secrets...

The set was great (I was particularly pleased that the gold sparkly curtain matched my tail so perfectly); the other acts were both lovely and talented; we were more than delighted to be carried on- and off-stage by the charming Mr Phil InGud; the only minor mishap was that our ukelele sustained a slight knock while being brought onstage and consequently one string was a little out-of-tune! Happily the audience didn't appear to mind, and indeed seemed to enjoy our performance just as much as we did. In fact, our Guilty Pleasures act went so well that we're bound to be performing it again sometime soon (watch this space for details).

Of course, thus far you only have my word that any of this is true, so I'll finish by quoting the review by London City Nights: "It's difficult to pin down exactly what's so erotically magnetic about a pair of murderous ukelele wielding half woman half fish girls - I began to suspect it was excavating some long-buried pre-adolescent yearnings for Ariel from The Little Mermaid.  These suspicions were confirmed when they launched into a twisted cover of Part of My World mixed up with references to cut-throat capitalism and Karl Marx.  Be still my beating heart!"

Mermaid Ondine reports:

Last Saturday myself and Mermaid Melusine swam away to sunny Peterborough, for an underwater photo shoot at the Aquatheatre.  We had a few adventures along the way, not least with a taxi driver who took us several miles out of our way to the village of Barnack - no doubt a delightful place... but not quite where we were intending to go!

Anyway, we made it to the shoot, and fortunately we still had plenty of time to spare, which enabled us to watch some of the human models doing their thing as well. We were  enthralled by how magical some of the floatiest dresses and fabric looked underwater. In fact, we might have been a little jealous if the photographer hadn't suggested we should use some mermaid magic to take on human form ourselves, and got some shots of us underwater in beautiful chiffon dresses. The Aquatheatre itself was great fun to shoot in - it's a water-filled tank with clear sides, meaning photographers don't need to be scuba divers or really good at holding their breath in order to get beautiful underwater images. And fortunately the tank is even big enough for a mermaid to flex her fins and have a proper swim in!

Mermaid Melusine reports:

Good afternoon, merfans! Myself and mermaid Ondine have been getting a little jealous of mermaid Lorelei's adventures in various warm and sunny places! So to cheer ourselves up we've been going through some pictures from last summer, including this lovely set of photos from a children's pool party in Cambridge, taken by local photographer Karen Eng.

And if your child doesn't like the water, or you don't want to hire a pool - don't worry! Our mermaids also do children's parties on dry land, giving every child the chance to meet a mermaid. Plus we offer lots of fun extras like face painting, the chance to dress up in a mermaid tail, arts and crafts, sing-along songs or even a balloon-modelling pirate. Every child is different, so every party is different - get in touch now to discuss how we can make your child's dreams come true!