Written by me
Saturday l I head across London on my red Vespa to Hackney to find the house my mother was born in — 471 Kingsland Road, it said on her birth certificate. Thirty minutes later my satnav announces, “You are at your destination.” I am in…
Sunday 11am l I’m sitting on my Vespa at the pop-up traffic lights at the end of my street. As always, they’re are on red. They’re there for the roadworks, only there haven’t been any roadworks since they popped up three weeks ago. I’ve just…
Saturday evening “The other night there were two men here at the table next to me talking very loudly in Dutch. Of course I couldn’t understand a word they were saying. Suddenly, after 20 minutes, I realised they weren’t Dutch. They were from Glasgow.” I…
Thursday 5pm I get my day’s exercise walking up the 40 stairs to my second floor flat. A masked man is standing outside my door. “You nearly gave me a heart attack! Who are you?” “ I am the mouse man,” he says. “I just…
SATURDAY 11am l There’s a very large cardboard box downstairs in the communal hallway. A huge fridge? It clearly isn’t the Knock ’em dead! Moth Killa sachet that I ordered yesterday. SUNDAY 11.20am l During lockdown I have been calling people who I haven’t spoken…
SUNDAY 8.05am l I text my doctor friend Chris. “I’ve just woken up with two red marks on the top of my right foot. I attach a photo of my foot. A mouse? Do mice come into the bed?” “Only if they are cold and…
My remarkable mother Sally Rose, who has died aged 98, was the first National Secretary of GamAnon, the sister fellowship to Gamblers Anonymous, set up for the wives, husbands and families of compulsive gamblers. For more than 40 years she helped thousands of people across…
SUNDAY 10.30 am l I just bought a red check lumberjack jacket on Amazon. I don’t need a lumberjack jacket; the closest I ever came to being one was watching the Monty Python TV sketch 50 years ago. I have no idea why I have…
Wednesday Trump says the storming of the Capitol had nothing to do with him. It happened just by pure chance happened minutes after he told the mob to go to the Capitol. "We're going to walk down to the Captiol…” he told them. As always true…
As soon as Lockdown Number One ended I went for my long overdue check-up with a new dentist. I waited for 20 minutes in the huge, deserted waiting room. Finally the receptionist came in. “Mr Rosenblum, he’s ready for you now.” I looked round the…