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@skipper
Sounds, Barchan, as if you are getting on fine and sorted. But perhaps purely for humour value in an often dull world here's what I did at the grand age of 34.
I decided that weekly driving lessons at 7 am in London were a total drag and hard to fit in. Also felt on occasion it was a licence (no pun) for the company to keep me doing more and more lessons when I kinda wanted some control over it all. So I booked a weeks worth of lessons down in Hampshire and stayed with my sister. It was great, actually got some free roads and to really drive - motorways and all.
At the end of the week I took the test I booked myself ........and failed.
So back to London and knowing I needed to keep the practise in I booked another test for a months time and looked for an instructor.
And because I Like to make things a tiny bit more interesting and to add humour I booked lessons with what was formerly called "the Italian School of Motoring" on Clerkenwell Road. they're now called Holborn School of Motoring...but originally only taught Italians who worshipped at the nearbye Italian church.
http://www.holborndrivingschool.co.uk/
I passed and i have the peculiar joy of recounting "I learned with the Italian School of Motoring".
As a side note, the slow lane on the autostrada is known in Italy as the "Corridor of Shame"
I rest my case.