Learning to drive: the manoeuvres The key, and I should have realised this sooner, was to find an app. This allowed me to learn while my brain was fooled into thinking it was playing a stupid time-wasting game. Had I twigged this earlier, I might not have had to go to the test centre in Southwark three times, and the staff might not have greeted me so much like an old, slightly stupid, relative. "How you're doing it is fine," says Paul, my AA driving instructor, matter of factly. Provided you don't mind failing. I take his point. Or rather, I try to. But as I squash one error, others arise. It's like a version of the whack-a-mole game where the moles are potentially fatal dangers, rather than loveable lawn-wreckers. If I'm using my mirrors correctly, I'll have left the handbrake on. If the handbrake is down, I'll forget to signal. I'll remember to signal, but ignore a zebra crossing. Hopefully I manage to pull it all together for the big day. In the build-up to the test, the other focus is on the famed "manoeuvres." In order of difficulty, these are: the bay park, the turn in the road, the parallel park and the reverse round a corner. Or at least, that's the theory. Friends and relatives spoke with horror in their eyes about the reverse around a corner, but it doesn't seem so bad. Ironically, the reverse-around-the-corner is the least useful of the lot: surely in real life you would just go round the block? The parallel park - a more important part of actual driving - is less easy. Worrying about how close I am to the kerb while also checking I'm not reversing over someone's chihuahua, is proving a bit of a handful, mentally. As is the turn in the road. The turn in the road seems very simple until you break it into its component parts, where it becomes a daunting exercise in memory and coordination. Here's hoping the area around Mill Hill has plenty of bay parking spaces. Over the next few weeks we're going to concentrate on driving around the test area: the automotive equivalent of going over past exam papers. Paul has so far kept quiet about my chances. I hope this is just the caution of a man who has supported Liverpool for too long to put much stock in hope. Ed is learning to drive with the AA Driving School. For more information visit the AA Driving School website.