Should we care? Maybe not. I’m not suggesting we live like Keith Richards or Jack Nicholson, but then you think a few beers, the odd spliff, a few glasses of wine and, oh, you just remembered that wrap of coke in your wallet ... it doesn’t sound that bad, does it? It doesn’t sound entirely incompatible with that 50th birthday which is lurking just over the horizon. Also, age gives you the wisdom to know that you shouldn’t stay up much beyond 3am, drink your weekly unit allowance in a single night or batter the gak until your only desire in the world is to find more gak, even though you know full well that its only effect will be to keep you unpleasantly, irritably awake until noon the next day.