Err... hello   I've only just seen this thread - not been around much this weekend as you might imagine (though I did check into the forum a few times from my phone).  Posted a few things on TOP about the Last Night because it's over there that the voice of reason regarding LNotP tends to be more urgently needed 

Gosh, I wasn't expecting such a response on here to my fifteen two minutes of fame, cos I didn't think any of you would be watching!  I was rather concerned when the two ladies from the BBC who recruited us before the concert outlined the sort of questions Suzy was likely to ask us - it all sounded like it was going to be very LNotP focused rather than Proms-focused and I didn't want to be seen on national television as somebody who "goes to the Last Night" without that being put into context.

In the end, Mark got the constructive questions (which I thought he answered very articulately) and I was left with a single question to which I wasn't prepared to give a straight answer - unsurprisingly, I'm not prepared to share with a nation of BBC1 viewers the specifics of getting into the front couple of rows at LNotP, though the answer I gave was perfectly accurate.

Thanks for compliments on the frock - I like it too   You didn't see my lovely turquoise shoes and handbag, but they were nice too!  Somehow the four-inch heels didn't start hurting until afterwards 

As for that bad pun - I think it was originally made on my Welcome thread last year

'Fraid so.....

I'm a mezzo actually, HtoHe, but I'll forgive you

Suzy Klein interviewed two other people just after the BBC2 broadcast went off to the parks for the interval - a middle-aged married couple from Harrogate whose children had bought them season tickets as a present.  I don't know them very well but had chatted to them a number of times earlier in the season in the queue and in the Arena (at earlier concerts they'd tended to go for the seats at the far rear of the Arena).  Their daughter lives in South London and has been putting them up overnight whenever they came down for a concert.

I seemed to get caught in camera shot a LOT this year... I watched a couple of bits of the broadcast back (both halves) and spotted some other boardmembers as well - spatny was visible in shot during the first of the audience interviews (though I won't identify him in case he doesn't want me to) and my mum alerted me to the lovely close-up which Lady_DHS (who was standing next to me) got during the National Anthem

Must be my middle-aged tastes in music

Anyway, I'm off now - going to see Don Giovanni at the ROH this evening (and, for my sins, STANDING, which I could do without after the Evening of Eight Hours in Four-Inch Heels the other night)

It could have been me - but I had the sense to run away when the researchers came working their way down the rail...

Gosh, David, no offence man, but given the way Ruth looked on my TV, I'm glad it wasn't.  

 

Thank you, Anna and Martle - I'm all embarrassed now!   Can't post a blushing smiley as the one we've got on here has a sad face, and I'm very flattered.  Martle's comment in particular has really put a smile on my face 

Thanks, bbm

Given some of the unnecessary and downright offensive comments one tends to hear, especially over at TOP, about people who stand at the front at the Proms (and some of those who comment think it acceptable to be ten times as offensive about those at the front for the Last Night ) frankly I'm ecstatic simply to have come across as a reasonably normal human being who loves going to concerts...