Being sent to Coventry (or Ricoh, here we come!)

Tom and I woke up early this morning with the intention of getting into the queue to try and secure two of the few extra tickets which Brighton & Hove Albion had sent to St. Mary's for Saints supporters. We arrived at St. Mary's at 8 a.m. to find that the queue for tickets already extended halfway along the Northam Stand.  I dropped Tom of and parked the car in the adjacent industrial estate and then joined him in the queue.  People debated how many tickets there were available - guesses extending from 100 to 500.  As we waited for the ticket office to open I read the details of Kim Sung Il's funeral in the Times and the pundits views on the future course of that intriguing and isolated nation.  At about 9.30 a.m. we were informed by Saint's officials that there were only60 tickets left and that the allocation had only been 160 in total.  We estimated that the queue probably represented about 500 applicants.  Needless to say, the tickets ran out before we got to the ticket office window.  We had already decided that if this happened we would try and get tickets for the Third Round FA Cup tie at Coventry and I am delighted to record that we were successful.  After having half frozen to death in the cold coastal wind around St. Mary's, Tom and I walked to West Quay for a hot breakfast at MacDonald's.  The hot breakfast wrap and coffee was most welcome.  After a quick shop in H&M for Mary, we returned to Winterslow.  This afternoon I started to deal with a mountain of paperwork that had piled up over the Christmas period.  Sara has been tackling the mountain of ironing too.  An early night I think and another early morning to finish off the paperwork.