As a general comment to currency - I work away for 5 weeks at a time, and during that 5 weeks cannot fly at all. So call it 6 weeks of periods of no flying. However when I am home I can fly every day if I want, and during the 5 weeks at home generally bang out quite a few flights. In my experience my currency doesn't suffer much during the 5 weeks of no flying, and I think that the more flying one has done, the longer "currency" lasts. It is very important for a fresh PPL to fly regularly imho.
Having said that, I make sure I use the checklist for the first few flights, rather than do it all from memory (which one should do anyway, but I know the aeroplane inside and out seeing as I own it)- I once flew half way back from Plymouth with a stage of flap out as I forgot to put them away after take off....No big deal but I did wonder why we were not going as fast as we should have been
