Love that Sussexpoet (On another thread, there was a suggestion for a 'like' box which would be great for this).
It's so true that children can be quite blasé about things that we adults find disturbing yet they can be really sensitive about things that are close to home and often not liable to happen.Only last week DGS found this fox skeleton which he found fascinating, and he is not at all afraid of seeing and touching dead things (unlike his grandma)
Last night we watched a really interesting programme on BBC4( can't remember the titile,or the presenter but I've seen her before and she makes astronomy really easy to understand) Anyway she was explaining the effect of the moon on the earth and I suddenly remembered one of my childhood terrors... if the earth just wobbles we could all fall off!!! I tried to get my dad to reassure me but when I said 'Why does the sea stay on the earth?'..........we were at sea in his little dinghy at the time....... his reply was 'Becaue it does'. Which was a great help(not!)
Talking about the programme afterwards with DH I realised that if DGS had been watchng it he would probably have thought it was fantastic...... everyone floating off into space.
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic