Social life? What social life?
When I started to dig in to retake all my PPL's around 2 months ago - and now flying again, don't see the prospect of any social life anyway the next 12 - 18 months.
Bit uncertain yet of the level difference from the Oxford PPL to ATPL at Bristol, as I understood the Oxford PPL books where beyond the PPL scope, (size of books was 3 times the ones of AFE) - Will spend not until christmas anyway refreshing my maths and physics skills, and than decide later.
However anyone who has taken the Bristol Distance learning, was it somebody who would assist if you had some problems with some stuff? I noticed during my PPL, sometimes it would help just to google the topic, to get a different perspective and different explaniation of the topic, which would be better than the original books, and this would help me immensly.
I don't think I can really afford to sit 9 to 5 in a classroom for 6 or more months, need to bite the bullet instead in front of books, computers and lonely hours at home drenched in ATPL stuff.

Will be fun though