Having a good friend along will surely help to boost her sense of hope and confidence.
Nevertheless, it's filled the Royal Albert Hall with fans who have long since swapped their Raybans for bifocals, and who have in many cases brought their children along (which surely counts as some sort of abuse).
Of course, the idea that some students may now feel forced to choose their higher education institution by price may be exactly what the government intended all along, but surely the choice of what and where to study should be based on academic content and the student experience, not a price tag.
Credibility and fairness are the basic economic issues voters care about, surely – along, of course, with a general hope for a better future.
As the shadows lengthened though, and the teams left the field, the innings, at 90 for four, was in tatters once more, surely along with their hopes.
This time-jump structure shepherds us, not always surely, along Zajac's wartime route to a collective farm in Uzbekistan, then on to the Middle East, Egypt, Italy and beyond.
Then he ratchets up the musical and physical energy, throwing in a gleeful hand-clapping imitation of Al Jolson along the way (surely with a sense of irony, as a black man mimicking a white man known for his blackface impersonations).
"Euryanthe" has customarily been written off as Romantic chivalric nonsense with wonderful musical moments, but here those moments extend through pretty much the entire piece, while the libretto, by Helmina von Chezy, pushes them surely along.
It will be interesting to see when the next legal high comes along – as it surely has already – whether the media or politicians will pause to reflect on the role that banning a potentially less harmful alternative will have played in any deaths apparently caused by its replacement.
