St Giles Cathedral

The sun seemed extra bright this morning as it rose above the Meadows spilling a glorious liquid gold light through the Dower House windows and reflecting off the topmost Marchmont tenements in the distance.

It felt positively balmy as His Lordship and I walked later into town under an interesting sky. While sunshine filtering through patches of blue, there was a pewter sky to the south, highlighting the whiteness of Ramsay Garden above Princes Street Gardens.

Had we not had our hands full of shopping bags and a street full of buses in front of us, this would have made a very untypical Edinburgh blip, a complete contrast in style from the sombre grey stonework of the neighbouring castle and High Street buildings.

Instead I give you a brooding St Giles Cathedral, with its crown spire and gothic architecture highlighted against that sky.