So Britain is not exactly a tropical island (my friend Sam commented recently on how nice it would be if you could push islands around like they do in cartoons), but you wouldn't know it from how they've handled two inches of snow. Apparently both main roads between London and Cambridge were at a complete standstill from yesterday evening, with some drivers (including, Bessie informs me, Amartya Sen) sitting in the same place for 20 hours. Practically the whole city was shut down today because no one could get into work. (Sadly, no math professors seemed to be affected.)

Among the places closed was the music library, which has all of the recordings I need for my show on Sunday, so it looks like we'll have two hours of favourites from Dave's collection.