Posts Tagged ‘literature

Tweet There was not much that could have seen us up with the dawn, blearily admiring the architecture of the inside of Paddington rail station first thing in the morning after our busy day at Windsor aside from a day trip to Bath. Both my mother and I had selected Bath as our little city [...]

TweetIt’s Wednesday night and somehow I’ve gone from being embarrassingly punctual to the late side of fashionable. No one will care particularly – once again I am off to a London tech meetup to, well, meet a whole host of complete strangers – however I am a bit ashamed of the fact that I’ve managed [...]

Tweet“Have you ever read Lord of the Rings?” I nod, wondering what analogy is going to require a knowledge of Tolkien. “Going into that pub,” my friend said, pointing at what could have easily been mistaken for a door to a set of flats, “is like walking into the Shire.” After a quizzical stare at [...]

Book Hunting

In: London

9 Mar 2009

TweetAfter my eventful Saturday at the Science Museum, Sunday turned out to be fairly low key – I went to morning mass at the Catholic church I had discovered on my neighbourhood walk the day before and spent the afternoon reading next to my window while a fantastic thunder and lightening storm took place outside. [...]

Alice

In: London

5 Oct 2008

TweetI have a pretty soft spot for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I read it, of course, for enjoyment when I was young; I read it academically in a Victorian literature class; and I based my novel for my novel-writing course at uni on the original plot, creating a [...]


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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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