Phew! Just got back from my first drive with my dear son, Ed. He’s had lessons and his mum has been out with him, but this was my first time. He’s very calm and quite together, but we had an interesting route.

I took him to a very strange junction. He couldn’t work out where to go and stalled in the middle of it. My fault, I think. Then we met several enormous tractors down narrow country lanes and, the most difficult maneuver, getting past a couple or horse riders that didn’t want to go in single file, on a hill in a narrow lane. He did it though!

So many things to think of at the same time.