Spring arrived on the first of September, according to the local radio, but as far as Anna and Joseph were concerned, the season remained the same: warm sunny days with only occasional rain and cool nights. Each morning, on opening the Venetian blinds in their first-floor flat, they exclaimed anew at the brilliant blue sky and golden sunlight.
Weekdays allowed scant time for sky-gazing. Dawn meant quick showers, a hurried breakfast and dressing in clothes suitable for their respective work places. Their visions of pounding city streets day after day looking for work had proved erroneous, Joseph filling a vacancy for an associate engineer in Roger"s office immediately, and Anna slotting into an administrative position at a city college two weeks later.
Finding a flat to rent was also acco
