Driving Lesson Number 15.

Another lesson down, another manouvre ticked off! I've just about nailed parking in a bay so my instructor has decided that we should move onto something else for the moment. We were meant to be reversing round a corner, but decided to do stop junctions instead.

Oh my god, there are some awful ones in Workington, including the junction of Harrington Road/John Street/Mason Street! I thought it was bad enough as a passenger, but you literally cannot see a thing when coming out of there!! I think I may avoid that area once I'm on my own, unless it's really necessary!

My instructor asked me part of the way through the lesson if there was anything that I felt I needed to go over again that I really wasn't sure about and I have to say it's roundabouts! Awful things they are, I just can't judge the speed of other traffic (which didn't really matter at 8am on a Sunday morning!) so I start to panic whenever I get close to them. I'd be far happier for all roundabouts to be removed and replaced with crossroads! Mini roundabouts aren't so bad because they're little, but ones like at Matalan are scary, especially the way some people drive around them!!

Anyway, we're going to concentrate on roundabouts for next week to see if I can get the hang on them. Should be great fun on a Saturday dinnertime...