Guess you mean getting those 25 solo sign offs. Git my FI R in July - but took 3 weeks for the campaign against aviation to get my licence back and got my sign offs finished just before xmas. Now waiting - again - for licence to come back from Gatwick. What do they do down there?
Anyway - 1st job I had was a mainly trial flight sort of place and in 2 months managed to get a grand total of 0 signoffs. Then moved and the new place concentrates on PPL courses. It is here the signatures came from. If my first school had not gone bankrupt then I guess I would still be waiting.