28th March 2007 Better lesson

Instructor came and said its quite foggy but see how it goes as he had told me he normally cancels lessons in fog I told him I thought of sending him a text saying please don't cancel lesson. Started well I don't think I checked mirrors as much as I should. I saw sign saying 40 speed limit and went to 4th gear to get up to 40mph my instructor tells me it's 30mph so I slow down gear down and say I thought I had just seen a 40 sign my instructor relises his mistake I was right :-) glad I'm right sometimes. I ended up in wrong lane at roundabout going straight on middle lane on approch and stayed in middle lane going round should of been in left lane so I ended up in right hand lane off the roundabout but managed to change lane safely I've learnt to check wing mirror before changing lane after nearly causing accident one lesson. My instructor says I need to stay away from white line more and react to cars stopping in front a bit sooner. I could do with getting out of junctions and roundabouts a bit sooner.

I pull up at side of road and get told that we are going to do an emergency stop. So set off again 2nd gear foot over clutch ready and stop when told I enjoy it and do it well. I was going to do parallel park but some idiot came up behind me even though I had put the car in reverse and didn't leave room for me to reverse so I did reverse round corner which went wrong I hit kerb and ended up looking in left wing mirror and steering left towards the kerb instead of right away from kerb. It sounds so simple to work out which way to steer til it comes to doing it.