St. Mark's Roundabout is the first roundabout that you are likely to encounter when you exit the Salisbury Driving Test Centre. Oh my! Having spent much of the morning switching…

I first became concerned about climate change about 10 years ago when I read Six Degress: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas. Mark's book predicts what might…

Drove 50 miles from the north of Mull to Iona last week, most of which was a single track road with passing places. That was interesting. Blind bends, blind summits,…

So, you are on your driving test, taking directions from a sat nav, approaching a large multi-lane roundabout and the sat nav says "cross the roundabout and take the fourth…

So, what do you suppose the speed limit is on this road? That's a question I often get asked by my pupils. They are generally shocked when I tell them…

I was quite surprised at the weekend, when one of my pupils started to speed up when he approached this dual lane raod. "Why are you speeding up?" I asked,…

So many of my pupils have the same issue when waiting at a junction, when someone is behind them. Suddenly, all that nice synchronised use of the clutch, accelerator and…

I was driving through Westbury the other day, coming to the roudabout at the top of Haynes Road, when I was astonished to find that a lorry was hidden behind…

Confession time now. I picked up a driver fault during my Part 2 Instructor Test due to poor observation at a junction. The diagram illustrates what was going on. I…

https://youtu.be/-Ef9C8GB48k By special request, I have just created this video for any of my pupils who are getting close to taking their driving test. It shows the controls that you…