Fear of 4 Wheels – Part 10
Short one today, I promise. My instructor cancelled today’s lesson at short notice due to illness. Judging by the overwhelming sense of relief I felt at that, I’m guessing I didn’t fancy going out...
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Fear of 4 Wheels – Part 11
I feel like I should publish a post that isn’t part of this series, to break all the Fear of 4 Wheels posts up. However, I’m not going to! I’m writing this on the 27th June, which has been a very,...
View ArticleFear of 4 Wheels – Part 12
Rather than write a blog post every time I sat behind the wheel, last week I decided to write up how I felt after each trip out in the car, and do a sort of mini diary. It went well on Friday and...
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Fear of 4 Wheels – Part 13
I’m not superstitious, if I was, I’m sure I’d end up owning a lucky pair of socks or something. I certainly don’t place any mystical relevance on numbers, although some numbers are clearly magical....
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Fear of 4 Wheels – Part 14
The subtitle of today’s post is ‘burning brakes and near misses’. Sitting in a car you don’t own with a driving instructor who has their own brake and clutch, and doing 70mph along a dual carriage way...
View ArticleFear of 4 Wheels – Part 15 (of 9 million, it would seem)
There was nothing majorly wrong with the driving in yesterday’s lesson, over and above the normal stuff. My anticipation could be better, my roundabout handling could be better, my maneuvers were...
View ArticleFear of 4 Wheels – Part 16
I can drive. I really can. For the most part, safely. Sometimes I don’t respond early enough to stuff moving slowly ahead of me in time to change lanes (like a bus, or cyclist) when on dual...
View ArticleFear of 4 Wheels – Part 17
In part 16 I wrote this, “I can drive. I really can”. In the lesson after that one, I proved to myself that actually, I couldn’t drive. It was rubbish again. I won’t list the full litany of...
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Fear of 4 Wheels – Part 18 – The End
I had my first ever driving lesson, and my first go behind the wheel of a car, on May 8th 2013. Today, August 14th 2013 I passed my practical driving exam (at the age of 42), and am now allowed to...
View ArticleNo Fear of 4 Wheels
I’ve been allowed to drive now, on my own, for 6 and a bit days, and I’ve done plenty of it. I’ve driven myself to and from work (alone) a few times, driven to Tesco’s to pick up food, and done a...
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