Landlocked Mermaid

   🎃Spoopy Edition🎃 It's time for the next lot of Mermaid Music, Spoooooppppyy Edition. Because I have spent the majority of the last month listening to my Hallowe'en playlist. So I thought I'd share my top five faves and add them to the Mermaid Music playlist. Spooky, Scary Skeletons (Undead Tombstone Remix) - Andrew Gold This one came up on my TikTok feed before it sank in that this was my kind of tune. Naturally, I then scoured Spotify for it and queued it up a number of times. It just has that steampunk vibe which I love. I may have been singing and dancing to this while I waited for trick or treaters. Sweet Transvestite - Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show) Can we just take a moment to appreciate what a beautiful human Tim Curry is? His voice is also incredible and this voice is just so heckin' fun to sing along to. That "Hah-yahh" noise he makes is just. so. good. It's been a while since I've seen the film, I wonder if it's on Netflix......

  Happy Hallowe'en my lovelies! May your day be the best kind of spooopy 🎃🎃🎃 Drop a comment below with who you are dressing up/have dressed up as ⤵⤵⤵ I was Miss Scarlett .

As with the rest of this year, we know that Hallowe'en is going to be an odd one. No trick or treating, no parties of more than six, no real excuse to dress up. Well, maybe not that last one. I may spend the day sporting the costume I made last year, it is definitely on the cards. To be honest, I am not even decorating this year. Not beyond the mud we track in from walking the dogs. So what can we do to celebrate this time of year? Well, for starters, you can join in on my Spookfest from the 26th to the 31st!   There will be fun, games, and GIFs. I suppose now would be a good moment to reflect on why I love Hallowe'en. If 2020 has been good for anything, it is perfecting our introspection skills. Amiright? Hallowe'en falls in the really good bit of autumn. It's cooler, but not uncomfortably so. There are leaves on the ground, still orange and yet to rot. The nights are longer, but have yet to dominate the day. It has a nice balance before winter well and truly sets in. ...

🎃Happy Hallowe'en🎃 And Happy All Saint's Day too. As we all know, this is my favourite time of year. We have reached peak Autumn - orange leaves on the ground and trees, not insufferably cold, etc - fuzzy socks are acceptable, and it's all feeling just a little bit spooky. I have already covered my costume , it just remains to be seen if it can survive being worn! Party is not until Saturday. Scoop the goop! Last year , I worked really hard on my trick or treat bags and ended up missing the entire thing thanks to work. It was annoying putting in all that hard work and not getting to enjoy the fruits of my labour. This year, I did not have this issue. I decided to go for a similar approach to making my bags as last year. I ordered in some paper bags, as my stock got used up last year between Christmas and my Grandad's funeral, this time going for some cute pinks ones, because why not. They came in a pack of about 100, so I figured fifty wa...

With it being less than a week until Hallowe'en, I thought I'd give you my top five... Spooky Fish! 5. Blob Fish Picture from Earth Touch News Blob fish just look so strange! They look like sad, sentient jelly. They do look a little more normal in their natural habitat, 2,800m (9,200ft) below the surface. The reason they look so blobby at the surface is because their bodies are built for high pressure living. The have developed gelatinous bodies to withstand the pressure as well as a buoyancy aid. If they used regular buoyancy techniques of other fish, they would run the risk of vomiting out an organ or two whenever they experienced a change in pressure. Isn't nature amazing? Still, I think it would scare the bejeezus out of me if someone wanted to spook me with a blob fish! 4. Giant Squid Picture from The Independent Giant Squid are spooky because we have known about them for a really long time, but they have only recently been caugh...

- Ursula from The Little Mermaid . It's Hallowe'en soon. Do you see where I am going with this? No? I'll be clear then, I am going as Ursula, badass sea witch, for Hallowe'en. Because, you know, she is scary to mermaids. Photo from a Buzzfeed article arguing that Ursula is actually a hero! I have been umming and aahhhing about my costume this year. I contemplated going as Rebecca Bunch from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend , as we have similar builds, hair, and wardrobe. But I figured that would mean I was just going as myself, effectively, just with a few more songs thrown in. While I love a good sing-song, I felt like there was something more creative I could do. And then it hit me. Ursula. She's badass, has a great villain song, and has a costume that shouldn't be too hard to replicate. I let Charis gut my wardrobe recently, so I have lots of fabrics to play with. I thought I still had a strap-less dress which I could just attached tentacles to, but...

Happy Hallowe'en!! Today's blog is going to be short, sweet and full of pictures - I have worn myself out with all my Hallowe'en prep. I've had some great fun today, including an interlude at my mum's house to decorate spooky gingerbreadmen with my favourite shark experts. I've been melting chocolate, making spooky chocs with jelly surprises, sewing my plastic pollution outfit, pumpkin carving... all things Hallowe'eny! It's been almost plastic free, the chocolate came wrapped in plastic and the sweets had some plastic packaging. But all things considered, that is still drastically less than if I'd have just bought some Haribo mini bags. And mine is now in spooky shapes. I have definitely learned from my experience and plan to use it next year. It's mostly don't leave it all until the day before , as I ran out of time to do the gingerbread house - but hey! Christmas is coming. Anyway, I am done rambling. Here is a photo journey of ...

The Ideas I love this time of year. Hallowe'en is my favourite holiday. I am one of those people who will actively deny that Christmas is a thing until at least November 1st. And more than one year I have left my Hallowe'en decs up until December. It just reaches a point where there's no point taking them down without replacing them! Now, this holiday is a minefield for avoiding plastic pollution. The decorations are plastic. The pre-made costumes are plastic. The sweets are bite-sized and wrapped and wrapped and wrapped in plastic! It is a daunting amount of plastic which goes into Hallowe'en and I am glad I have a few months of experience with reduced plastic living, because otherwise this would be a headache. I don't have to worry about hosting a party this year, my sister has claimed that one. But I would like to do plastic free trick or treating, I will definitely be dressing up, and I want to deck the house in bats and ghouls! At this stage I ...