Lesson ten, total of 18 hours driving. Good things: improved my bay parking did not get beeped at did not brake at roundabouts managed well dealing with hazards: there were vehicles and books strewn across a roundabout, no idea what happened Bad things: was undertaken when travelling maximum legal speed limit stalled when joining a [...]
Lesson Nine
Lesson nine, total of 16 hours driving. Good things: good clutch control in traffic jams, left leg/foot sure got a work out changed lanes on dual carriageways pretty well managed to kind of cope ok with more cars on the road Bad things: reversing round a corner is not my thing, yet car was positioned [...]
Lesson Eight
Lesson eight, total of 14 hours driving. Good things: survived multiple large roundabouts learnt reverse around a corner Bad things: stalled a couple of times did not reach national speed limit on a dual carriageway, nowhere near at all tried parking on the kerb when I didn't need to I'm getting more confident with driving [...]
Lesson seven
Lesson seven, total of 12 hours driving. Good things: went to fourth gear quite smoothly highest speed of 55mph, so I'm getting more confident with speed did parallel parking completely unassisted - yay! bay parking has definitely improved, the car was actually inside the bay, I just needed to turn a little later can understand [...]
Lesson six
Lesson six, total of ten hours driving. Good things: went to fourth gear drove 50mph experience of slip roads went on two of the largest roundabouts in the city - and survived! learnt parallel parking Bad things: bay parking was not happening for me, instructor informed me the parking spaces were smaller in this car [...]
Cornish Pasty
Made this a while ago. Turned out ok, would definitely buy pasties rather than make my own though! My only issue was the differences in sizes, as the earlier ones I made were small, whilst the later ones were packed with filling. I should have divided the fillings more evenly. Not a bad bake. But won't [...]
Lesson Five
Lesson five, total of 8 hours driving. Good things: drove from home, so drove the whole lesson learnt bay parking, even if it was in a very empty car park overtook the bus that overtook me - see below did not crash *thumbs up* Bad things: bumped a kerb pulling out of the car park, [...]
Chocolate Victoria Sponge
The sponge turned out well, not as moist as I hoped. The terrible part was putting the cake together: the writing, as you can see, was not well written; and the icing in between the layers was quite runny. Very runny, in fact. I had hoped after an hour in the fridge the icing would [...]