Time for part 2 :
Two days after my trial lesson I drove over to White Waltham with Pat (my wife) She was going to sit in the rather pleasant clubhouse while I flew.
I introduced Pat to the instructor who said "so, do you want to come along then? Plenty of room!" Blimy, my first SLF!
Lesson 2 was straight-and-level, climbing, descending, turning, all carried out west of Reading. A lovely evening for flying and it all went very well.
Still haven't figured out what all this "overhead join" stuff is all about
though.
After we'd landed I asked Pat if she'd enjoyed it - she said yes, but after a while she'd fallen asleep! I took that as a compliment on flying smoothly - but then remembered that once while driving home I'd had to do a full emergency stop from 80mph (ahem) after the guy in front of me lost control. Pat was asleep at the time and didn't wake up then. Ah well!