Oh, I used to drink like everyone else, Jim; just suddenly went off it at 70, realising that I had never actually liked it that much, that it was an easy way to waste a lot of money if one wasn't really taking that much pleasure in it, and that it was often an advantage, as well as intrinsically pleasurable, to have a clearer head than one's company and no headachy feelings next morning. Had I realised all this earlier, I should probably have saved even more over a longer period; and expect I should nevertheless have survived the revival at that!

I am not a teetotaller: will e.g. politely drink toasts in champagne at a wedding. But must admit to having been brought up short by the recognition of how much crime & anti-social behaviour [like, probably, I shouldn't wonder, the main subject of this thread] are in fact alcohol related.

Yours in temperance but I hope not priggishly

~M~