Second Driving Lesson

Progress.... Yesterday was my second driving lesson and I'm coming on leaps and bounds - if I do say so myself. Initially, we recapped on last week, practiced changing gears and left turns (at junctions). I proved quite good at this - although sometimes forgot about the steering when trying to change gears or stop.

Then we did some right turns at junctions - which are infinitely harder. Ok. Slight exaggeration, I was finding most of it hard to take in, but did manage to turn right at a junction without killing anyone or landing the car in a wall.

And then.... the instrctor guy suggested I drive us home. AND I DID!!!! Oh my God! I was on main roads, took on roundabouts, the whole lot. I drive through Shirley High Street. At one of my more confident moments I discovered that I could be a hardened criminal...
[Hilary - cruising along at a 33mph]: Should I change to fourth gear now?
[Instrcutor]: No, Hilary, this is a 30mph zone.
Pause
[Instrcutor]: Hilary, you might want to ease off the gas there so that we're going just under thirty...

At least I'm not afraid of 10mph anymore. Now to find the happy medium...

Good Book

Finished reading The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger at the weekend. This is without a doubt the best book I've read in some time. It's a love story with the added twist of time travelling - but it's not a sci-fi book...
I would strongly recommend that everyone go out and read it. And I would recommend you do so before Brad & Jen destroy it...


It is reported that the Pitt/Anistons production company have bought the rights to the movie of the book. There is also some talk that the couple themselves may play the lead couple. I think this would be a bad idea. I don't think they're right for the parts.

You know the way when you read a book and you have a visual image of the characters, places, etc? Well, I really don't think Brad and Jen are the couple in the story and I really hope they cast it better than just putting themselves in the leads...

Weekend

Have to say that I had a very nice weekend. The weather was lovely and myself and Jamie just chilled out, going for walks in teh sun or reading our books in the sun... It was Jamie's birthday at the weekend and we spent saturday afternoon having lunch in the sun, nice bottle of wine, good food, sunshine it was really nice.

It made me realise that while I've been saying I'm not happy in Southampton, I must be... I was happy all weekend, from Friday night, right up to this mornig at 6:20 am when the alarm went off. I think the only thing I'm really not happy with at the moment is my job (and that's cos they don't pay me enough). So right now life is good and I'm going to practice not whining about it so much.