Thanks jorocketoz,
My timeline has been as follows,
Applied online in april 2009,
You session in june 2009,
Spec testing was sept 2009,
Assesment day dec 2009,
and now off to FSP in may 2010.
The unusually large gap between Assesment day and FSP was due to some finer issues that had to be sorted out, but the main thing is im good to go now....
Dean.