According to the BBC tickets sold out after 1 hour and 45 minutes. That's fast. Damn fast.
The trick, it seemed, was to have an IP address that the ticket website liked. Mine wasn't one and by the time I got close to the website they had all gone. Rumours abound of a glitch that continually allowed you access once you were let in, making it difficult for those who had not broken through to make it.
Hope came in the form of a friend who was at work. Her favoured connection took her straight through and she took my details to order the tickets. I am now anxiously awaiting a confirmation e-mail which has not yet come. I am, to put it mildly, a little nervous. The final answer will come by Wednesday when money will, or will not, have been debited from my account.
The nail-biting has only just begun.
