34 1/4 Hours.
Only time for 1 1/4 hours again today, even driving instructors have to go Christmas shopping you know!
True to his word, we stayed mainly it town today, well kind of anyway.
We headed round towards the shore and turned off for a turn in the road. For some reason I stopped short on the reverse, then tried to roll it back and ended up rolling forwards slightly! No major drama there though, I didn't hit the kerb or anything.
Next we headed to Siddick for a bit of parallel park practice because that's what I think I struggle with most. There were 2 little kids I had to contend with because they were messing around on the road behind me and I actually thought that one of them was going to ride his bike right behind me! Luckily they moved off and I could get going again. Another car came up behind me, but instead of waiting, (it was a young lad!) he decided to take a shortcut over the grass. Impatient... so and so!
We headed back into town, following someone doing 30MPH along the 40MPH from Siddick to Workington. Honestly, they either speed past me or hold me up!
Next it was up to Salterbeck to practice reversing round a corner. No problems there, I'm getting to be quite a whizz at that now!
So we headed down towards Harrington and up into High Harrington for another reverse round a corner, though the corner we wanted was already taken so we had to head for another instead.
Once I'd done that, it all kinda went wrong (though nothing major!) when I didn't go into 1st to stop at the mini roundabout. I kinda gave it a sideways glance and shot off! Oops... I knew I was safe, but I should really have stopped, as I've done every week till now! Go figure...
My instructor decided we should give it another go so we headed up to Lillyhall and back along Scaw Road to get back to the roundabout. This time was better, though I managed to hit the kerb when I'd got over it! I don't know what I was doing there!!
We headed up to Banklands for another parallel park on one of the roads that slopes quite rapidly and I pretty much had that one nailed too.
It was getting to the end of the lesson by this time so we headed back into town and I said that I thought I should practice the stop junction on Hag Hill a bit more because I've only done it twice, so my instructor decided we could do it there and then coz we still had time! Me and my big gob... I totally stuffed that one up too because I didn't come to a complete halt. I simply slowed down then went because the road was clear. I really must remember that, AND remember to slow down faster when coming to the stop junction at the bottom of Mason Street. Tee hee!
Next week it's back to mock tests to see how I'm getting on now.
True to his word, we stayed mainly it town today, well kind of anyway.
We headed round towards the shore and turned off for a turn in the road. For some reason I stopped short on the reverse, then tried to roll it back and ended up rolling forwards slightly! No major drama there though, I didn't hit the kerb or anything.
Next we headed to Siddick for a bit of parallel park practice because that's what I think I struggle with most. There were 2 little kids I had to contend with because they were messing around on the road behind me and I actually thought that one of them was going to ride his bike right behind me! Luckily they moved off and I could get going again. Another car came up behind me, but instead of waiting, (it was a young lad!) he decided to take a shortcut over the grass. Impatient... so and so!
We headed back into town, following someone doing 30MPH along the 40MPH from Siddick to Workington. Honestly, they either speed past me or hold me up!
Next it was up to Salterbeck to practice reversing round a corner. No problems there, I'm getting to be quite a whizz at that now!
So we headed down towards Harrington and up into High Harrington for another reverse round a corner, though the corner we wanted was already taken so we had to head for another instead.
Once I'd done that, it all kinda went wrong (though nothing major!) when I didn't go into 1st to stop at the mini roundabout. I kinda gave it a sideways glance and shot off! Oops... I knew I was safe, but I should really have stopped, as I've done every week till now! Go figure...
My instructor decided we should give it another go so we headed up to Lillyhall and back along Scaw Road to get back to the roundabout. This time was better, though I managed to hit the kerb when I'd got over it! I don't know what I was doing there!!
We headed up to Banklands for another parallel park on one of the roads that slopes quite rapidly and I pretty much had that one nailed too.
It was getting to the end of the lesson by this time so we headed back into town and I said that I thought I should practice the stop junction on Hag Hill a bit more because I've only done it twice, so my instructor decided we could do it there and then coz we still had time! Me and my big gob... I totally stuffed that one up too because I didn't come to a complete halt. I simply slowed down then went because the road was clear. I really must remember that, AND remember to slow down faster when coming to the stop junction at the bottom of Mason Street. Tee hee!
Next week it's back to mock tests to see how I'm getting on now.
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