The French Air Force have in their fleet some little fighter jets.
One of the exercises these perform every so often (why do I suspect by their younger pilots) seems to involve one bursting from the ether with a bang over our village and then disappearing again.

As you know I give a live broadcast here to WLR radio in Waterford every Tuesday.
My normal host is Billy Mc Carthy bu a couple of weeks ago, when he was on holiday, Maria Mc Cann stepped in to do the honours.

During the course of my piece, while I was giving out a recipe, one of the jets made their appearance with an audible roar.

“Mother of God ” said Maria, “What was that”

I apologised and explained.

I have since discovered that several Waterford housewives, who were taking down my recipes at that moment, thought there had been an explosion somewhere and leapt to their feet in alarm.

Such are the hazards of live radio.