Friends that is. Big and small. We’re just back from visiting our great friends in Italy, and their four wee ones (some not so wee now). As well as restocking the supplies of risotto rice, grana, and a certain small pasta that goes well in sausage casserole. It’s now nearly 8 years since R and …
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Tons of fun
Not quite the ton (that really would have been scary), but I reached national speed limit type velocity today on the A1. What’s more, both I and other drivers lived to tell the tale. (Mind you, you would hope so, with the driving instructor next to me.) Driving lessons continue, and today included driving in …
Two revs forward, one rev…
I am trying to remind myself that learning is incremental, and that you don’t always move forwards. (Especially when you’ve tried reversing into parking bays for the first time.) Interest rates can go down as well as up, as well we know. But it’s frustrating when you’ve a limited chunk of time booked for driving …
It’s a gas gas gas
But can you name the tune the words come from? I am having refresher driving lessons. Fifteen and a half years on from stunning my mother with my ability to pass my driving test (she took me out to lunch on the strength of it), I am actually behind the wheel again – and so …
They call me baby driver
Not yet out and about, but the plan is to be out and about, as I’ve finally bitten the bullet and booked refresher driving lessons. Been looking at driving school websites, and for all that they say about refresher lessons, most of them don’t seem to be thinking of someone who’s basically been avoiding driving …