Came across one of the less well-regarded St Andrews traditions today, which is students having to queue up outside property letting agencies in the hope of getting accommodation for the next academic year. This queue is on Argyle Street; the snow and ice of last week has largely gone to be replaced by a bitterly cold easterly wind.

Spoke with Toby Marsh (Classics), Celeste Sloman (Art History) and Freddie Edmunds (Neurosciences) - all First Years living in Sallies who seemed to be stoically resigned to the fact that this is what you have to do to get a place, although it was hardly the best preparation for the Biology exam Freddie had that afternoon.