Miss Nikki's guide to surviving Edinburgh in the festive season:
1. Speed up. There are some of us that can't abide walking at a snails pace without good reason and want to punch slow walking people in the back of the head. If I can walk at a reasonable pace in painfully high heels, you can do it in your ballet pumps.
2. Don't stop in the middle of the street. Or in the doorways of shops. Self explanitory. That also makes people want to punch you in the back of the head.
3. Put more clothes on. Blue is not the new black. It's neither big, nor clever, wearing hotpants in Scotland in the winter and it's your own damn fault that you're freezing. Why your parents let you out the door like that I'll never understand.
4. Move out of the way for buggies & wheelchairs. Don't stand gawping.
5. When someone says loudly "Excuse me" it doesn't mean that they want you to turn round and give them the look of death. It means they would like to get past and are being polite enough not to push you out of the way.
6. Your shopping is not important enough to take up a seat on a busy bus. Move it.
I'm not normally this blunt but the festive season affects me in strange ways...
