It feels like the dust's barely settled on the 2008 Festival, but the first tickets for next year are about to go on sale.  Seats for the 2009 Edinburgh Military Tattoo - the umatched soldierly spectacle which wows crowds of 8,500 nightly in front of Edinburgh Castle - will be on sale online from Monday 1 December.  And with recent Tattoo seasons booking out by mid-January, there's no time to waste securing your place.