{"id":29089,"date":"2024-12-24T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T11:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/my-shirts-reeked-of-onions-my-father-hated-the-phoney-tudor-windows-that-flat-will-always-mean-home-michael-rosen\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T11:24:42","slug":"my-shirts-reeked-of-onions-my-father-hated-the-phoney-tudor-windows-that-flat-will-always-mean-home-michael-rosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/my-shirts-reeked-of-onions-my-father-hated-the-phoney-tudor-windows-that-flat-will-always-mean-home-michael-rosen\/","title":{"rendered":"My shirts reeked of onions; my father hated the \u2018phoney Tudor windows\u2019. That flat will always mean home | Michael Rosen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six decades on, in my mind\u2019s eye I can still walk around those rooms and hear my parents\u2019 voices<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/series\/what-home-means-to-me\">In our end of year series<\/a>, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s odd \u2013 and revealing \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>I can walk round the flat in my mind, running my hand over the \u201cdistemper\u201d on the lavatory wall, Paris wallpaper on another. I can hear the \u201cgeyser\u201d spluttering hot water into the bath, smell the dying cat on my bed with its red \u201chospital\u201d blanket, see the man peeing on the moon on an inn sign, in Bruegel\u2019s painting, Netherlandish Proverbs, on our front-room wall.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Rosen is a writer and broadcaster who has produced many books for children and a few for adults, too<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/letters\">letters<\/a> section, please <a href=\"mailto:mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20underneath%20your%20letter.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%E2%80%99s%20name%20and%20city\/town\/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20if%20your%20letter%20is%20used.\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/24\/flat-home-shirts-father-rooms-parents\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six decades on, in my mind\u2019s eye I can still walk around those rooms and hear my parents\u2019 voices In our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at home It\u2019s odd \u2013 and revealing \u2013 that 62 years after leaving the north London flat &#8230; <a title=\"My shirts reeked of onions; my father hated the \u2018phoney Tudor windows\u2019. 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