03 April 2009

Michelle Obama at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School

I heard on the news yesterday about the big event when Michelle Obama visited a girl's school. It was only today that I realised that it was the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in Islington.

I suppose it is no big deal that Mrs Obama would visit a school, but I was especially interested that it should be this particular school. Over several years in the 1980s I visited this school every week to take flamenco dance lessons, and we used this very hall where Mrs Obama was speaking. We worked up quite a lot of passion as we rhythmically stamped on that floor for many hours. Although it all seems a distant memory now, it was one of the most enjoyable times of my life.

Another thing I remembered about this school was that during one of our flamenco dance lessons my car was broken into in the school's car park, the only time I have ever suffered a vehicle robbery. The person who smashed my car window and stole my brief-case probably never knew that there were sensitive papers inside it, associated with correspondence I had had with the Ministry of Defence about my security clearance. Luckily the brief-case was found in the waste disposal chute of a nearby bank, and everything except my electronic calculator was recovered.



Michelle Obama speaking at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:33 PM

    I have a doubt.Is the Tomlinson blog real?
    And why said "not me"?

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  2. No, what was the Richard Tomlinson blog has been hijacked, and it is no longer anything to do with Richard. As far as I know Richard Tomlinson no longer has a blog or any website, and so I am changing the link to the only website that tries to represent what Richard was doing back in 2006/7

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  3. Anonymous1:57 PM

    Okay.Thanks,but other sites like www.spy.org.uk maintains the old link.

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  4. Oh yes, there are lots of sites that continue to publish the defunct web addresses for Richard Tomlinson's blogs. I personally cannot see that they are of any interest to somebody who seriously wants to follow the story of Mr Tomlinson, but we are all entitled to our opinions.

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