Hempy, thank you for the link to the Border Mail. Good to see another WWII pilot riding in the office that he last occupied in 1944, albeit now refurbished with a two piece suite. I assume this was a later mod, a la the Spits?
As Danny has told us before, dual instruction on the Spit amounted to learning and being tested on the contents of Pilots Notes, with a bit of advice from the left wing root with the canopy open thrown in prior to first flight/solo.
MPN11, I well remember the airfield "twinkling lights" prior to my first night flight. There was something magical in the way they defined apron, taxiways, and runway, as compared to daytime. Veritable Blackpool illuminations, that continued to impress until they all went out on a subsequent night and were eventually replaced by paraffin lit ones instead!