Posts Tagged ‘dance

TweetI’m not entirely sure how I became de-facto Michael Jackson correspondent for Spoonfed but once again I found myself at a flashmob for the dead King of Pop. This time, a group had gathered at Trafalgar Square to try to break the world record for the most people to do the Thriller dance at one [...]

Jive Nation

In: London

22 Aug 2008

TweetAs promised (you didn’t think I’d carry through, did you!) here is actual footage of me dancing. Last night was the last night in town for Sarah and Steve before they head off to Sydney (lots of ‘s’s for that family) to get married next month. I’m really going to miss them both but it’s [...]

Pre-weekend update

In: London

15 Aug 2008

TweetLast night was one of the best dance classes so far.  It was the only venue I hadn’t seen yet and it definitely one of the most popular.  It was a huge group for the lesson, and everyone ended up staying quite late to keep dancing, including myself which meant it was nearly midnight by [...]

Jump Jive and Wail

In: London

13 Aug 2008

TweetOne of the reasons I’ve been so bad about updating my journal lately is that I’ve started taking jive dancing classes.  It’s a program where I pay 30 quid for five weeks of classes (classes are every week night but at a different venue every day of the week, so even though it’s the same [...]

TweetWhew, what a week. Well, first of my random musings – you know how you supposedly build your immune system in your first few years of life? Of course, you’re exposed to all these things that your body recognises as foreign so you build up antibodies and blah blah blah science happens and then when [...]


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Meaghan Fitzgerald is an American ex-pat now living in London, UK and working for tech start up Spoonfed Media as director of marketing. While The Top Floor Flat initially covered London sites and scenes, European travel and recollections on living abroad, more recent articles focus on start ups, business, technology and marketing.

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