it sounds like you know at u are doing m8.
im 22 and have just started my ppl in the midlands, the weather being much better than in my native leeds. i was bord in my ales job and decided to do the ppl full time at my old mans so to keep costs low.
aim to go to oxford at end of year or early next, wanting a tatse of wat is to come by doing the ppl.
hoping by time im 25 to have complted the 18 month course and see what the market is like.
best of luck