My shirts reeked of onions; my father hated the ‘phoney Tudor windows’. That flat will always mean home | Michael Rosen

guardian.co.uk (nprofile…fw9w)
✍️ The author, Michael Rosen, reflects on his childhood in a north London flat, describing the sights, sounds, and smells of his home and neighborhood.
👉 The author's childhood home was a small flat in Pinner, north London
👉 The flat had a distinctive telephone number, Pinner 1826
👉 The author's parents had different personalities and ways of interacting with each other
👉 The author remembers the sights, sounds, and smells of his childhood home and neighborhood

#MichaelRosen #HaroldRosen(author'sfather) #ConnieRosen(author'smother) #Keith(butcher'sson) #Pinner,northLondon #EastEnd,London #Poland,Lithuania,Russia(author'sfather'shomeland) #lifestyle

quoting nevent1q…wwsw

guardian.co.uk (nprofile…fw9w)

Six decades on, in my mind’s eye I can still walk around those rooms and hear my parents’ voicesIn our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at homeIt’s odd – and revealing – that 62 years after leaving the north London flat where I was brought up, I still think of it as home. I can still remember the telephone number: Pinner 1826.I can walk round the flat in my mind, running my hand over the “distemper” on the lavatory wall, Paris wallpaper on another. I can hear the “geyser” spluttering hot water into the bath, smell the dying cat on my bed with its red “hospital” blanket, see the man peeing on the moon on an inn sign, in Bruegel’s painting, Netherlandish Proverbs, on our front-room wall.Michael Rosen is a writer and broadcaster who has produced many books for children and a few for adults, tooDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/24/flat-home-shirts-father-rooms-parents