Ironically, drugs too. The freedom to explore but hopefully impart some lived experience with the rise of completely different compounds which can turn up in practically anything illicit
Imparting the need for rubbers when only the oldest really grasps the reality of spontaneity and intimacy and requiring protection with sex. How bringing new life into the world changes everything in multiple ways and in multiple worlds, so try and wait until you’re old enough to be responsible etc etc etc etc, as if such attempts at logic ever got in the way of hormonally-charged male brains
What disturbs are conditions among Britain generally. How decrepit it can look and feel, rivers we visit on bikes overflowing with sewage, just makes you grimace at times. You can hit sections every season and see dead fish wiped, floating or draped on flagstone. Weird too. Flies, algae clogged, nothing can live beyond a few breeding seasons. Shrinking green spaces, particularly. The only choice is to move once the youngest has completed his next step up
Future of planet Earth? You have to feel for the ol’ girl and her future, don’t you. If you’d asked me this at 25 years of age would have just patiently small-talked until asking you if you could score