Well done Mrs V.
Just ask Mr V. to borrow the car for a quick shopping trip to Croydon :-}
By the way V'Man, If Mrs V is insured as a learner on your car , don't forget to advise your insurance company, they will probably want more money now she's passed.
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RF - :) She's still thinking about that. ps how did you know her nickname's "P"? Really!
H - Thanks. No need to advise my insurance as they wouldn't touch her on a provisional and with less than 1 year driving experience so we insured her in her own right for her own car wth me as the named driver. However you have reminded us to let her insurers know that she's passed. She'll be hoping that they won't want more £££'s come renewal time but they don't seem to need too much by way of reasons to increase premiums do they.
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All congrats to Mrs V.
Funny how any change of circumstance results in a rise in premium...
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Helicopter - Just heard from Mrs V's insurers - they don't want more ££££'s yet but we'll see come renewal time.
ps. Guess where Mrs V's chosen to celebrate her success this weekend?? Yep, you guessed it - Croydon!!
Oddly enough Mrs V's just heard from a friend recently back from a holiday in the Slovak Republic. Apparently she chose to do her test there and it amounted to, in her words, "a 5 minute drive through an empty village!" Quite frighteningly, after such scant training and examination she can now, we're told, drive unsupervised in the UK for up to a year before she has to do a test here. As she's not planning on staying here another year, it appears she won't have to train any further although to her great credit, she says she doesn't feel sufficiently equipped and won't drive here if she can help it.
It does seem odd that within the EU there can be such widely differing standards on such important issues.
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I quite agree, volvoman.
As you may recall from previous conversations we've had, my wife is Czech, and when we first me, the standard of her driving truly frightened me. I lost count of the number of bumps that she had in her employer's cars, and was quietly grateful that she was not insured to drive my then company car. The attention span of a gnat didn't help, and there was always something more important than the task at hand - driving! - to think about.
Eventually, of course, she had to take a UK test, and I pursuaded her that the cost of professional lessons was worthwhile. It sure was, which she now admits.
Her driving today is with excellent observation, anticipation, appropriate use of speed, and mechanical sympathy. She's a reformed girl, and I'm proud of her abilities!
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