Ds hasn't had any driving lessons due to covid. The plan was get his provisional and start lessons then pootle around with me in my car until his test but covid put an end to all of it. He will learn later. Now I have to keep my oh sooo economical car, read she drives like an old lady, I don't actually need anything more sporty but I do miss the acceleration of my previous car.
He did do Young Driver though where you drive in a car with an instructor before you are 17 so he has driven a bit. The instructors he had said he was great. They were in a car park which had a roundabout, a hill for hill starts, junctions and parking bays. He started that at 14.
The only thing Ds was told about grades was if your mock grade was better than one of the assessment grades they were using for 20% of the final grade, they would use that. It did not benefit Ds at all as it was the same. So he knows what 20% of his grade is but that means nothing when you do not know your "non-exam" exam grades. So August it is. I wish we were in Wales, would give you so much time to react and plan if needed.
Ds is currently camping in a large group some of whom are going to bed at dawn but are playing music and not caring about those in tents trying to sleep. They are on an official camp site but sadly they are in a camping field which doesn't come under the shut the fuck up at 10pm. He is enjoying some of it and some of them but I think listening to people throw up at 3am isn't his idea of fun. It is all part of learning some people are not great people when they have been drinking. 
Second vaccine for me and Dh today, he was fine last time, I was very unwell. I am hoping I sail through it this time.
Obviously all this is completely off topic but I thought that is where we were all at now, this being a support thread for parents and what we have been through but also somewhere we can just share bits of our lives too. I love reading updates from everyone.