I wonder if
tKF is starting to feel old now?
Jamie, it sounds as if you may already have done this, but get yourself down to your local airfield and become part of the scene there. You should find plenty of people willing to take you along on flights, explain points of theory, reminisce (often beyond the point of tedium admittedly!) and generally encourage your flying.
A young lad at the club I used to fly with earned lessons in return for washing aircraft for example. He
went solo just after his 16th birthday; would have been on the day had it not been for the British weather.