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and Nia, I know you're really good, aren't you, with your social media. You share a lot from not just from us, but from other people as well, don't you? So you're always on the lookout for things that you can share that would be helpful for your students.

Yeah. And I know a lot of, it's not just the pupils that take from it. Cause a lot of mums and dads follow me as well. even my mum follows me and the amount of things that she says like, wow, I didn't even realise that. Because she's been driving 40 years now that actually she's taken stuff from my page as well Even like I try and make it relevant. So if it's a hot day outside some little tips of what to do When it's hot outside with driving, you know, and like if it's wet or it's raining now, Little tips of driving then to be safe. It's all about safe driving for me. and there are the things I want to make it relevant, but not too much, but enough people can recognize my page as well. And it's not just for, Oh, well done. You've passed your test. Absolutely amazing. It's those little tips and helpful things that helps everybody, not just the people that I've learned with me. So yeah, I do share, try and share a bit. Yeah.

Yeah, that's great. And I think that's really important for our listeners, because not all of our listeners are learner drivers. Like Kev said, a lot of our listeners are qualified drivers, but you don't have to be a learner driver to find a good social media page from a local driving instructor. It doesn't even have to be local. It can be anybody who's sharing great information. And so even as a qualified driver, There's lots of information, help, support, advice that you can get just through your feeds on whatever platform you're on.

Yeah, I think it helps because, like with anything, we all should really keep up with our training, with everything. We all, we should be getting better with everything as time goes on. But, Like with driving I think it lacks slightly when people have been driving years and years So hopefully it may change behavior. We can't change everybody's behavior, but it might help someone just that little change It's that like the campaign on the radio, wasn't it? It's the think campaign. It's like little Impulses of, it's a guy called Derek and they put songs on, like keeping that, uh, safe distance and how it'll make you a safe driver, less accidents, and it'll make your journey a lot easier, all that. Just little things like that. It just, people's behavior has changed over years of driving and they don't really go back out and, You know, get that, not training, but development with driving. If, if people went out and just kept practising everything safe, kept up with everything, the roads would be a lot safer. And I just hope that something out of what I share, or teach people, would reach more people than just my pupils, because there's some crazy stuff that goes on the road, and it's just like, if you just change this one little thing It would have stopped this and this. It's just little things like that. I know a lot of, parents have taken things from my pupils that, you know, cause they take them out to drive. And like, we all, we're always looking for Bob and Tom in our mirrors, which is boy on bike and Tom on motorbike. And my mum would honestly say a few weeks ago, she, she's going to kill me for talking about her on here. She openly, honestly said.

She's famous.

like sharing it everywhere. didn't even know what, why she needs her side mirrors. And I was just like making her more of a worker. She learnt 40 years ago, there was less cars on the road, you know, all that. So, I sat in the car with her and I'm like, right, You know, think about who could be on the left and right. And then I brought in Bob and Tom. So it's like, she knows, I know who they are now. So she's more aware. So there's a lot more of them on the road as well. And they're vulnerable and so on and so on. So, um, yeah, even I know some of my pupils parents were like, they use their mirrors a lot more for Bob and Tom now, a lot more awareness. And so it's just little things like that. As long as someone takes something from something, then I'm happy.

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