Describe Edinburgh in 3 words:
Old, new and rainy.

What do you love about the city?
I guess it's a love and hate thing. Edinburgh's very, very small. It's like a village, everyone knows someone through someone else. You always know where you'll find your friends and that's such a fantastic luxury. You can walk from one side to the other in no more than an hour which is unlikely as you have lots of little boutiques and galleries to be distracted by. Finally, our famous festival!

What would be an ideal day for you in Edinburgh?
Always has to be a Sunday-funday. Lazily wander around the Grassmarket, looking in all the little shops and occasionally stopping for an outside tipple. Go find somewhere that does a top-notch roast - lots of places have ones to be proud of; Villager (on George IV Bridge) and Bon Vivant (Thistle Street) are main contenders. On the way home, battling with your food coma, go to The Stand (York Place) and watch a flavour-of-the-month comedian. I want to go do this now!

Tell us something that we probably don't know about Edinburgh?
It doesn't rain ALL the time. We have a supportive live music scene and we all support our local artists - maybe not always financially. The residents aren't all snobs either; Glaswegians might claim to be friendlier and they're all wrong, but it is safer here and more homely.

Most memorable moment in Edinburgh:
After meeting my beautiful boyfriend Andrew (he's reading over my shoulder with a sulky face on). But really, everyone remembers taking that first trip into their city centre. You're about 14 and you and a pal go into all the shops and try on all clothes that maybe your parents won’t let you. You hang around in Superdrug looking at baby blue glitter and buying handbags with kittens on them. I remember getting off the bus and looking down the length of Princes Street and thinking – 'oh my god! I'm so grown up!'