Blowing bubble kisses against the glass, with fish gliding alongside me, flippin’ my fin and giving the audience a spin was sure to get a big reaction.
‘This is Vermy the Mermy,’ the speakers blared. ‘She has come all the way from Niagara Falls today.’
Pushing and floating perfectly in the water, pushing my hands to play Pat-a-Cake with the children on the other side of the window was a magical feeling.
Only this wasn’t my imagination running wild, I really was a real life mermaid – something I never knew could and would be my job.
Yet, with a natural affinity for being in the water, I quickly learnt that life really could be better down where it was wetter.
I would pretend to be a grey seal
Growing up in Canada, living near all the
