(Hours 138 & 139)

The confidence is coming back with the sunshine! I had a good comfortable drive today, and things that went wrong in the last lesson amazingly corrected itself today. It must have just been a 'sudden bad drive'. As my friend once said, confidence is the name of the game, and indeed it is.. my confidence is slowly coming back to me now, and I'm finding that I'm becoming less hesitant at roundabouts... my junctions are still a bit dodgy and I could simply sit and wait at them for days!

One thing I do really want to brush up before my test are the hill starts and hand brake.... this was the serious error that caught me out last time. I've been sitting with my foot brake on and handbrake off... so getting up that little hill and finding my bite after a red light is such a struggle! Obviously, from last time I've learnt that the handbrake should be on, but my mind is never registering this when I come to an inclined junction. It was never an issue to me before, but an important rule my instructor taught me today was misleading signals, with the main one being brake lights! If I sit constantly with my foot brake on, the people behind me are thinking I'm never going to set off, and with the foot brake on, I'll never be able to find my bite and get up that hill!!!!