Imagine, if you will, being a teenager again, aged perhaps between 13 and 17. That is hard for me, since it is a long time ago. But I can (just) remember it. I spent time hanging out with friends in the village where I lived, traveling by cycle; I was a junior member of the local cricket club; I was a Scout, and I was a member of the youth drama group of my school - 9 miles away by bus, the last bus home being at 2105 (seared on my memory!). Certainly my first underage drinking was carried out in Saffron Walden in the gap before that last bus. All in all, that seems a fairly rounded set of experiences, and I'm grateful to the people who organised them. So some time was sent informally, some with voluntary groups, with a small associated cost, and some with state-organised groups, again with a small direct cost.
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