“It’s the sort of place you want to keep going back to. You get the feeling that it’s stayed exactly the same as it was when it first opened in 1903”.
His mother Kate Lennard stressed that the occasion would be more conventional than the comic-strip invitation would suggest. “The service will be very traditional – exactly how it would have been 100 years ago.
That’s exactly how Zoom wanted it to be. He’s a real individual. I’m really proud of him.”
As well as his barmitzvah, Zoom is celebrating his nomination by a national newspaper as one of the UK’s most influential media players in the UK, alongside J K Rowling and Caitlin Moran.
“I still can’t believe it. It’s certainly an honour,” he said
