I've been whooshing around and making the streets and roads of my local area unsafe!

I've been postponing getting a driving licence for the past 10 years. With all my traveling around in my late teens and early twenties I never got round to complete my driving lessons because I was never in a country long enough (or legally) to go through the whole progress. I've been relying on Boris for the last 10 years and my British provisional driving licence which is very illegal outside the UK. Boris never really minds being my personal chauffeur but with us living in Belgium these days and because I still have a lot of jobs to do, errands to run and people to meet in The Netherlands it's becoming some sort of a handicap.

So for the last 3 weeks I've been on this crash course of 20 hours driving split over 2 hours almost daily at one of our local driving schools. With these intense 20 hours of training I'm allowed to drive on my own and it allows me to take my exam within 18 months starting after 2 months. So I'll have 2 months to practice on my own and than I'll take my exam.

I'm really excited about this and I keep telling myself that at 34 I'm proud that I finally did this. I've been driving around in Carnival chaos traffic all day yesterday and did quite well. Today I want to go to the swimming pool, do grocery shopping, plant shopping and tub trug shopping - we're going to be so bankrupt with me having access to a car!

I've also been busy painting the sunroom and I've been really busy ordering Bo and Jos (our previous, previous, previous neighbor who keeps helping us fixing up houses. He asked if we could move to Spain the next time) around in the kitchen. There are actually 3 cupboards put up and a dishwasher. Nothing works but I'm already ecstatic as I know in 2 weeks everything will work and I'll be over the moon.

After all my shopping driving trips today I'll sand the sunroom and start to apply the first coat of paint. I've picked All White by Farrow & Ball - our new home sponsor. I sometimes wish this was real-life. We could have Cath Kidston sponsor us, Farrow & Ball, Dove, M&M's, Boden, Lotus Toilet paper. Think of it!