Terry Prone's lockdown diary: Bombs bouncing off mattresses and where Brussels sprouts come from

Like the classic city dweller who thinks milk grows in Tetra packs, I thought Brussels sprouts maybe grew in bunches, like grapes, says Terry Prone

Paul McCartney: New album sparked memories of self-tattooing among Terry Prone's classmates. File picture: Ian West

Day 82 

This may not bother you, not least because it happened a good while ago, but, encountering a reference to Second World War refugees leaving Paris with mattresses strapped to the roof of their cars “in the mistaken belief that it would lessen the impact of a bomb", I text my son asking why this would be. My son is a fount of explanations on abstruse matters, and for the most part puts those explanations in simple terms, in deference to my diminishing braincell count.