Terry Prone: Being stuck inside cocooning is way too exciting for me

After coping with everything from sundry pet standoffs to falling masonry, a spell of boredom would be a bit of a break

Jack is an agreeable dog but — shortly after his TV appearance on ‘Ireland AM’ with Anton Savage and Pete the Vet — years of rejection by the cat came to a head, and chaos ensued.

DAY ONE 

First thing on the first day of renewed house arrest, the ceiling fell on me while I was getting dressed. Not being metaphorical, here. This being an old house, bits fall off every now and then. The whole structure didn’t come down, just a sharp-edged slate section, which hit me on the head and then fell on the floor, where it split into a dozen shards, thus proving my head is not as hard as the floor.