On Thursday morning we went off early for a bit of photography—andrew with his SLR and new tripod (courtesy of me :) ), and me with my digital compact. The weather was cold, so I had suggested we head over to Blackford Hill, to take photos of Arthur's Seat if it was clear, and in any case to get the frozen pond by Blackford Hill. It was a morning of "freezing frogs", like the night before, but the cold weather had given us a mostly frozen pond. The far end was completely frozen and frosted or snowed over, the near end was frozen in a slushy looking ice, and a stretch of open water lay in the middle, filled with ducks and swans. Lovely.

My pictures are here, and andrew's here.

We wandered up the hill despite the expected lack of view due to the fog, and were rewarded for our slippy slidy efforts. We only just noticed some lovely frozen spiders webs on the gorse on the way up, and Arthur's Seat was in fact visible rising above a sea of fog.

Unfortunately this tale does not end well; on the way home, I managed to slip on a slab of iced concrete by a gate, and bang both shins in two places... I'm okay, but my that was unpleasant.