BRUSSELS LOCKED DOWN...

...and resounding to the wails of police sirens & the rumbling convoys of troop-carriers. It's not too calm today, but resolute - the streets are full of grim-faced zombies walking to & from work.

I was just getting my first coffee of the day when I heard the news over BBC Radio 4 - thanks to all those of you who kindly asked after my well-being!

Nearest I came to being bombed was in the 2nd World War when a V1 "flying bomb" conked out & dropped from the sky a couple of hundred yards from our back door - I found myself a very surprised three year old under the kitchen table with my mother on top of me...