A Year In Music: 1st February

February, Mara Simpson (2024)

This morning, there were planes flying from the Hatterall Ridge, little trails of silver smoke and white light. I could’ve thought of them as sinister – we live five miles from an SAS army base, and now and then hear the rumble of low-flying aircraft, the earthy thunder of bomb practice.

But these trails looked too small for that, too innocent, as they …