Resettlement PPL the easy way
I did, in a fashion. My 3 week resettlement course was 10 miles from Blackbushe. No suitable service accomodation was available, so I got rate 1s.
As a Silver C glider pilot, as the ANO rules were in '69, I needed 3 hours solo plus flying and written tests to get a PPL A.
Finding suitable digs, the surplus on Rate 1 was sufficient to fund my PPL ( on non-radio J3 Cub), during lunch hours, and 1 evening 2 hour solo bimble around Hants and Wilts.
8 hours power in logbook and PPL achieved. (But that wasn't the sort of thing you meant, and can't be done today.)