Let's start again, shall we?

First week at the Hornsey training school and it seems like the wheels have already fallen off.

While we were busy swanning about in Ipswich last week, our instructor was scratching his head wondering where we all were. Due to a mix up somewhere along the line it would seem that us trainee drivers should not have been swanning around in the luxury at Ipswich at all, but slumming it in the training school portacabin straight away receiving a far more "driver-orientated" induction. Not only that, but what we should have covered we didn't, and what we should have been provided with we weren't. Scratch day one, as we all head to the Bishops Stortford depot to collect hi-vis vests, rule books, sectional appendix and all the other paraphenalia that we should have had from day one. Still, it was a lovely afternoon for a walk down by the river with the wife.

To our trainer's great credit (and with a bit of re-scheduling), we are now back to where we should have been at this point last week. With fire safety and emergency first aid tomorrow followed by personal track safety for the rest of the week, we should at least be in a position to start driver training proper by next Monday.