The first whoosh of spring

By Nigel Featherstone
Updated April 19 2018 - 8:10am, first published November 11 2013 - 3:00am

It happened only a week ago. There I was, working away at my desk, when, coming from somewhere at a distance on my right, the east, there was a sudden airy whoosh, two of them, in parallel, blasting past my window, above, high above, then the briefest of silences, a nano-second, before this in the west: one explosion, two explosions. Down below my office, on the sun-drenched terrace outside the cafe, young men and women stopped concentrating lazily on their lattes and cappuccinos and looked into the sky.

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