Advantages: Accessible staging, good balance in programming, great education programmes Disadvantages: Singing is not always consistently amazing
As an aspiring opera singer (currently working in admin - oh, the glamour! - but hoping to go back to college in the near future), I try to attend as much live opera as I can. Living in London is great for this - we are spoilt with 2 international level opera houses, as well as numerous touring companies and high standard amateur productions. EnglishNationalOpera is generally seen as the Royal Opera House's more accessible sibling - slightly cooler, slightly more modern. All productions are staged in English and the singing is generally of a very high standard.
EnglishNationalOpera's home is the Coliseum on St Martin's Lane, just off Trafalgar Square, so easily accessible from Charing Cross Station (Mainline or underground) or bus routes 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 23, 24, 29, 53, 77a, 88, 91, 139, 159, 176, or if you're travelling by ...
Advantages: Low cal, really yummy Disadvantages: Price, very moreish!
Mikado
So what are they?
These are milk chocolate covered biscuit sticks, think of mini chop sticks covered in chocolate and you won't go far wrong! In fact on their packaging they state that they got their idea from the game pick up sticks, although I wouldn't want to play with my food!
They are around 10-12cms tall with the last 2cms not covered in chocolate so that you can hold onto these without getting sticky fingers. This is a great idea as it makes them ideal to give to the kids for a quick treat without them getting messy (unless like my 2 year old they like to hold the middle of the stick!).
How much are they?
I have seen these at various prices, I picked up a 3 pack in Morrisons for a special offer of £1, I have seen them in Tesco at full price for £1.99 for a 3 pack which I think is quite expensive seeing ...
Advantages: Gorgeous! Disadvantages: You won't want to put them down!
Around 4 years ago I was sitting at Charles de Gaulle airport in France, the plane was delayed and it was getting late, so my mum went to a shop in the airport and bought a box of these little biscuits Mikado, we'd never heard of them before, but we were quite impressed.
4 years later, I was walking around Sainsburys and spotted a big display of "new" biscuit Mikado, I was made up! I'd loved them in France, and at 49p for a packet I snapped them up and found they were exactly the same as the ones I had eaten in France.
The biscuits are long and thin, imagine the bicsuits in Choc Dip, much like that, but thinner and about 5 inches long, covered 3/4 of the way down in a tasty milk chocolate, there are about 30 in a regular sized pack, and you can also get small packs with around 15 biscuits in.
The individual biscuit is light ...
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