bcfc,
Was the book an Xmas pressie? I seem to remember recommending it to you in December. Good, innit?
Aerbabe, suggest you read everything you can lay your hands on, AAIB, CHIRP, GASIL websites and at least one pilot/flyer type mag. a month. And PPRune, of course.
Duxford is a good venue to fly too. Perhaps we should have a PPrune PPL fly-in there.