Hi Pizzafly,
Just a few final words. Many people looking to start the PPL gain the impression that it is a 45hr course. It isn't!
45 hrs is the legal minimum hrs in which you are permitted to qualify. Most people take substantially longer. More like 70 or 80 hours for someone with reasonable flying aptitude who flies at intervals of no more than a few days. Remember, unflyable weather can add to the interval between lessons.
Many people take much longer, especially those who can only afford to pay for a lesson per fortnight or longer.
If you can, be prepared to book twice as many lessons as you really want; you will find you will be unable to fly on half of them owing to bad weather; (this is the UK after all).
There is also a tendency for people to choose to learn to fly in the summer months, often regarding flying as a summer recreation. They then find themselves in difficulty getting lessons in a busy club where everybody and his dog wants to fly all at the same time. Remember also that in the UK we have a 'returning polar maritime' climate with a rainfall maximum in the high summer months.
Once in the air in summer, all too often you find yourself flying in what looks like a fog, where you can only see the ground immediately below you, or else on a sunny day being thrown around by turbulence under fair-weather cumulus cloud, all of which makes learning to fly and navigate at the same time very difficult.
In the autumn and winter, the atmosphere is much more stable; flying is smooth. The only downside to winter flying is shorter daylight hours.
Good luck Kid,
Broomstick.