Spring in Edinburgh.
First, let's start with the theory.
Pictured right, the window of a Rodney Street café has been decorated with seasonal blooms in an optimistic, yellowy display redolent of new growth and lambkins gambolling over the sunlit meadows of Heriot Hill.
Now, the reality.
Below, filmed this afternoon from an East Claremont Street window, the first signs of an 'Arctic ploom' heading for Edinburgh this evening. Occasional snow and hailstones. On 27 April. Perishing.
As any fool knows, you need warm weather for plooms. No wonder this one's so bitter.
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@theSpurtle Two-faced weather is OK as long as it doesn't entail an irritated Janus.