The pest I’ll never forget: the cockroaches were everywhere – even on our wine glasses

In a cheap London flat with no heating, dozens of the insects swarmed, leading to a Valentine’s Day that still makes me break out in a cold sweat I don’t know if cockroaches really could, as we’re often told, survive a nuclear apocalypse, but I can tell you this with certainty: they can definitel...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/08/the-pest-ill-never-forget-cockroaches-everywhere-wine-glasses)