Nobody on this thread has said a word about gliding?
I did!! I enjoyed holidays at Great Hucklow (£16 for a week, all in - OK it was about 1962...) several weeks at Husband's Bosworth and one at Nymphsfield. absolutely agree that gliding is great. But there was nowhere close enough to carry on with it on a regular basis, hence the 30 odd year gap until the PPL.
RF