Thanks for the kind words Lister and Stik its good to know there are people out there on hand to lend advice to us newbies
I too am learning from the Pratts books and brought them as a set with all the other things i will need for my PPL (flight comp, maps, knee board etc).
As for the flying i feel i am getting on ok just seem to be fighting the weather to get airbourne as it seems as if everytime i have a lesson scheduled the weather is not good enough to go up. I guess its one of those things!
The FI's at my FTO (Aeros @ Filton, Bristol) are a great bunch of guys and really friendly and are happy to answer any questions i ever have.
I just want to get on with it now and fly!