Because he asked me what ‘pall’ meant. And my mind jumped to pall-bearers and I started a long explanation about hearses and coffins etc, to which he listened with great fascination, before saying ‘No, PALL, Mummy, like waterPALL.’
Ffs. I asked if it had not occurred to him that it might be ‘fall’, as the water in waterfalls is in fact falling, and apparently it hadn’t. And now he’s going through a list of everyone we know asking when their funeral is going to be 
, and I can sense a proper explanation of death being demanded any minute now. It is too early for this...