What happens now then, more solo circuits for me? Or do I carry on doing dual circuits?
Dual circuits mate! Lots and lots of them. You'll wonder why until you realise that the bar is being raised every lesson.
Sometimes you wish you hadn't gone solo - cos' you want to do it all the time and you start to resent that person in the right hand seat and wonder what you've done wrong not to let you do more solo time!
In the end I told myself I wasn't going to learn much on my own - so that's why the instructor was still there! Plenty time for solo once you have your PPL!
(In fact you have to do 10 hours solo before that - usually there's a bit of that outstanding after your cross country - quite nice as you can basically do what you like in that time).