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[turps]

Since I last posted I've helped Corey move to his new house-share. He's retaking his last year which meant moving out of the house he's in now as his other house-mates are moving on. Thankfully this time he's got two weeks between moving to the new place and having to hand in the keys to the old place so no frantic cleaning like last year.

However, I did climb a lot of stairs as Corey's room was on the top floor of a townhouse. By the end of the day my fitbit had awarded me my 'Climb a redwood' badge as I'd climbed at least 25 flights of stairs while hauling boxes. By the time we were done I was desperate to have a soak in the bath. And then while I was doing that I remembered his first year at uni, when we moved him into halls and I could barely walk the few minutes to take him to the local Sainsburys to stock up on essentials. Again: man have things changed.

I also went to see The Festival with James. It's pretty much The Inbetweeners with only one cast member, so if you like that you'll like the film. We did end up hanging around for half an hour before going in as one of the projector bulbs had broken and needed changing, which meant no ads and no trailers. Which wasn't an issue really, but we were still given free passes when we left. As we've got unlimited cards they were no use to us so I've given them to Kayleigh and told her to use them on an Imax screening, she may as well get as much value out of them as possible.

I've been out for my first drive with James. Locally there's a place where a housing estate has been knocked down, but the roads remain so all the driving schools take people there. I drove for about an hour and at the end James said he bet I'd enjoyed that, and no, no I didn't. It was scary and I ended up driving on the grass when I got flustered and at one point when I was driving between the streets with actual houses in them, and you know, cars and people, another learner was told to stop by their instructor and I had to drive around a corner and go between their car and another car that was parked up, and what were they thinking?! I'd only been behind the wheel all of half an hour. And I know, they would have no idea I was such a newbie, but still.

Other than that. Yesterday was a bad grieving day. Probably because someone is moving into mam's house, and then Celeb Big Brother started, and mam loved that show loads and she wasn't around to watch and complain about not knowing any of the so-called celebs. Today has been better, so onwards and upwards I guess.

Comments

[nopseud]

{hugs}

I really recommend getting some lessons before you go out driving with other people, if you can. Instructors have dual-control cars so everything is enormously less scary knowing that they can take the controls if needed. They also know the best ways to teach driving, so you'll learn much faster and you won't pick up bad habits that are hard to break later. Even if they're not dangerous habits, they might interfere with you passing your test. It's best to be at the point where you can confidently go 'I know that's how you drive, and it's fine, but to pass the test I need to be doing X' while you're practising.

[frausorge]

Ok, now I'm curious about how driving licenses work by you. Will you get something else after you've taken the test? (Here the thing that lets you get on the road as a student driver is a permit, and the license is the thing you get after passing the test. So I think I misunderstood your last post a bit.)

I hope Corey likes his new housemates.

And, *hugs*.

[chalcopyrite]

::hugs::

I remember how utterly terrified I was when I started driving. I used to go through the most amazing geographic contortions to avoid having to encounter, if possible, any other cars at all! And forget driving on streets with cars parked along one side, just forget it.

I'd second the suggestion to get a few lessons if you can, because the instructor will (should!) talk you through every step and will have insight on what the local driving tests cover. But after that, you really just need experience to get comfortable with the idea of steering a large chunk of metal in a straight line!

[sylvaine]

Oh gosh, the driving thing sounds terribly stressful! It's exciting that you're learning it though :D and exciting that you did all that physical exercise, wow, I'm so damn impressed!

*hugs* grieving is so hard. All of the love <333

[turlough]

I hope Corey will like his new place! Also, go you for helping him move! If it had been me all those stairs would have hade me come up with a good excuse to get out of helping :-)

That sounds like quite a scary drive! I'll keep my fingers crossed the next one will be much less frought!

*hugs you a lot*

[sperrywink]

GO you! 25 flights of stairs hauling crap is definitely an accomplishment. ANd I am so happy you had the stamina and things have changed that much for the better for you from when he first went to uni.

Good luck with the driving lessons,I know you can do it!

ANd finally, {{{hugs}}} just because.

[rikes]

OMG, that's a lot of stairs.

Good luck with the driving!