Congratulations to Beagle and others who worked on the NPPL. I was unconvinced by the NPPL concept when it was first announced, but have been persuaded by the well informed contributions of Beagle and others to this forum that it is a good thing, although I shall be maintaining my PPL rather than trading it in for an NPPL.
Congratulations also to Kirstey for being a perfectly formed, perfectly safe, extremely knowleageable and in all ways complete pilot after 45 hours. Alas I am a slow learner and find myself a very incomplete pilot after 250, but no doubt I can learn much from Kirstey's ever helpful, polite and experience-based comments here, on the Angle of Attack thread and elsewhere.