LOL JB - silly buggar.
Lesley, roundabouts are fairly easy, you just have to remember that you have to give way to traffic coming from your right, so you stop at the stop line and once there is a break in traffic coming from your right, you stick your foot hard down on the clutch, find a gear, first is best but what the hell, any will do for me, and then you stick your foot down hard on the accellerator and providing you don't stall, you clog it onto the roundabout.
By then, the traffic will be giving way to you as you will be their traffic on the right.
If you have found the correct gear, then you are fine, if you have selected an incorrect one, you will find yourself kangarooing around the roundabout, but not to worry, you can always say you meant to do that, and at least you are moving..............remember when it took me, I think, 8 or more stop-starts to get round the roundabout at Caister?
But if you stall - have no fear, so long as you are over the line, you are on the roundabout, and that means the people on your left can't enter the roundabout, and probably, as in my case, the people behind can't pass you and the people coming from the right cannot do so because you are blocking their exit.............so everyone is at a stand-still and you have the whole roundabout to yourself.
Signalling is easy-peasy.............if you are simply turning left at the roundabout, then you signal left.............use the electric indicators Lesley, sticking your head out of the window and shouting "I am turning left" does not work..............I tried it.
If you are just going ahead, then you approach the roundabout and make sure that there definitely is an ahead to go to, and you do not signal until you are passing the exit on your left, and then you signal right............or is that left? Well anyway, it is one or the other........................personally, if I designed a car, I would have a neon sign on the roof which, at the press of a button, would illuminate and tell people which way I was going.
If you are meaning to go right then you begin by indicating right, and you make sure you are in the outside lane...............do this ahead of time, like the day before, saves any last minute changes and lots of swearing and people waving at you with just one or two fingers. Signal right and enter the roundabout, and continue until you pass your last left exit before you leave, and change from right indicator to left indicator.
If you just want to drive around and around the roundabout for ages, then stay on the lane nearest to the garden bit, and keep signalling right, but bear in mind the cost of fuel these days, I think ours is still somewhere about "a hell of a lot" per gallon.
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