There are few more beautiful sights than Edinburgh in the snow.

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It's not going to last long, but just at the moment there's a thin coat of snow across everything. The Meadows, of course, looks fantastic, and walking between the tenements watching the snowflakes spiral down past the streetlights is magical. I was starting to think that maybe we wouldn't get any snow this winter. Sometimes it's good to be wrong.

I have also moved to (re?)confirm my status as a white-coated nazi braniac, by joining the Genetics Society. It turns out the treasurer works one floor almost directly upstairs from me, and its correspondence address is at Roslin. I feel right in the heart of things.