Tuesday notes

Brilliantly sunny morning, but very cold. Current temperatures only just above freezing, and spare a thought for mainland Scotland, which went down to -11C overnight. Fortunately, there is little wind. The readings on the NWS website were way off last night, giving us temperatures of 1F instead of 1C. There is a difference of about 20 degrees C between the two.

I have written to the journalseditor in relation to the comments spam issue, telling her that the email and comments alerts features should be taken down immediately. No reaction as yet.