I'm at the same stage as yourself .

I practice all the 1 ,1V , V changes in each key . I will start to include the iv chord . Thanks ManxCat

I'm doing them but nowhere near quick enough for songs unless it's 1 strum in each bar but hey that would be a play along.

What am noticing is that the fingers are hitting the right places without looking on more and more occassions. My sounds are clean so I'm getting there

Bit of strumming patterns, bit of finger picking and hey ho that's another session done.

Slow progress is frustrating but we just keep on going

Even bad guitar is better than no guitar.