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yes, the laughing too loudly thing, like when you're learning to drive and evryone who looks at you sees this huge grin on your face bacuse it's so HILARIOUS learning to drive unless you're the brow furrowed in concentration type.

I have bought a kag in a bag in the past, but they look so dreadful and actually don't keep out that much rain, I went for a proper Bergy something or other fairly fitted thing. I am so vain.

Walberwick is my very favourite place in the world. I have had many adventures there but not usually at midnight

Has good light up your way, and HUGE sky too.

Boco's learning to drive isn't she? I reckon she's a furrowed brow sort. i was an immature laugher - AND I was 30 at the time, all oooh hooo hahaha, look at me failing to do a 3 point turn. I took the test 6 times fgs, what an idiot.

well I passed second time but haven't driven for three years to Dh's continued annoyance, have a few issues with it. I am a bag of issues.

Walberswick is across the harbour from Southwold, Avi, or if you're an 11 year old girl, a bike ride over the bridge with tom thumb drops in your pocket and a crab line. Sizewell B looms scarily on the horizon though.

I just asked dh and he said 'I think you took it seven times didn't you?' Oh fgs. How useless is that?

W is Suffolk coast Avi.

There are some lovely parts that seem to have avoided the stick of rock/arcade revolution and could almost be the fifties or something. Stiffkey has endless beach under blue sky with no-one to be seen sometimes though it's a trek over the marsh to get there. Some of those places have a certain appeal though, I quite like Cromer with it's windy streets and crab stalls. Great Yarmouth is beyond foulness.

Where do you live Avi? We've been discovering Wales since coming south west. Gower, Pembrokeshire, Ceridigon (sp?). I don't go a whole lot on the countryside, but that's all quite an eye opener. And it IS the larder of Britain - honestly, some amazing food and organic farm shops etc. We've camped in Gower and it was, all things considered, a good trip.

Actually 100x you're sadly right - i haven't as much as cracked a smile during driving lessons. But that's because i hate it and it's all very traumatic. Usually i'm not that furrowed.

I think i've had it with this instructor now, run out of money and patience.

Is stiffkey pronounced stooky or something mrsC? Where is holme beach? we always went there when i was little, would like to go again.

We should have a walbersick meet up.

I ate a nectarine.

Holme beach is north I think, where the sea henge is? Stiffkey is pronounced Stookey by some old locals but mostly they say Stiffkey. If you say Stookey now you look like a sad old londonite who is trying to get down with the lingo and look knowlegable about Stookey Blues. Just say Stiffkey but do look for stookey blues, they are meant to be tasty! I only ever pick samphire, far too many concerns over food poisoning to go for molluscs. Issues again.

you can of course say Stooky in a funny way with a Norfolk accent, like pukey or flukey with the second syllable being raised in a slihtly higher grunt, but with the queen's english, it just sounds, silly.

Oh now i'm confused - i said stiffkey and was corrected haughtily by friends dh who said 'hahaha, i think you'll find it's stookey' Next time i see him i'll tell him he's a sad londonite.

Lovely Avi thanks - no rush at all

Lionheart have sent you a CAT

Boco, sympathy - I HATED learning to drive. But my instructor was good and I passed first time. I was SO pleased. I have never been so pleased about anything in my life!

Franny that thread! I had forgotten that's when I thought of my new name

well, he may not be a sad londonite, Boco, but he's not local

I'm so fed up with learning to drive. My instructor is a good teacher, but he's an arse. He's cancelled easily every third lesson, always in the last ten minutes before lesson due to start. Always get a text saying 'not feeling too good, sorry, will text later'. Always. It's a nightmare for me to get childcare, so i will have spent previous 24 hours negotiating with friends and running across the village with toddler - psyching myself up for a horrible lesson, then it being cancelled. dp has taken 3 mornings off work to help me - and each time the lesson was cancelled - so now he says he's not prepared to help anymore as its a waste of his time. I've told the instructor this, but he's the defensive sneery type when criticised. Can't face starting all over again with a third instructor, i've run out of money - it's £47 for a two hour lesson! I haven't paragraphed this as i'm sure no one will read it as it's just a rant.

He is kind of local - he grew up near there, his parents live near there - but he's shaken off his accent and developed a posh one for teaching in a private school.

God Boco, sounds awful. I really would ditch him. I think it's really lame for him to be cancelling at short notice with pathetic excuses. Can you get a recommendation for someone good?

He was the best recommendation i found! I'm quite rural, so not a huge amount of choice. Tried a woman last year but that ended literally in tears.

It's so frustrating because i really really need to be able to drive living here - i was so determined to have passed by the summer holidays which would be so much nicer for all of us if i could LEAVE THIS VILLAGE FOR A DAY. Feel so annoyed that i'm no further forward than i was last year and have spent £600.

well, local linguistics changes quickly

driving

I must do it. I will not get my weird spinney thing and think I'm going mad and crash into the person in front of me. I will not. No-one will be laughing at me. They will not.

MrsC did you ever see my post about when i was laughed at during a lesson by a whole gang full of boys? Who chanted at me?

Maybe not helpful?