Bit late now, but... Mazzy, your cr@ppy weather on Friday was exactly what I was hoping for. When you've done your PPL and got a bit of experience do an IMC rating (I did mine when I had about 70 hours total) - it's great fun, really it is... I went to Cranfield and did an ILS, then back to Kidlington for the NDB approach. If you've flown ILS's on Flight Sim you'll know how hard it is (and harder in real life as the weather is much less predictable!) but very satisfying.
I'd have done the flight on Friday anyway with foggles on if the weather had been good (it was a refresher with an instructor) but real bad weather was fantastic. We were popping in and out of the tops of the clouds at FL50 - beautiful. And there's nothing in flying quite as beautiful as the sight of the runway lights glimmering at you from the gloom as you break cloud at 650ft above the runway...
Good luck with it all - brings back so many happy memories...!
Tim