Chq'd Flag - Your experiences seem to be mirroring mine. I was waiting to go solo for what seemed like an age and the wx doesn't ever seem to be favourable.
Unfortunately I've not been back in the skies since my solo on 27th Feb due to wx and I'm away over Easter so no flying until at least April.
It does concern me somewhat that I've only managed 2 hours in the past 2 months. How much of what I've experienced will go out of the window and will have to be re-validated?
Learning at EMA seems as much fun as LBA - having to juggle your learning while ensuring that you aren't getting too much in the way of the big commercial traffic. I was once asked to orbit and was doing this fine until I noticed that the wind was blowing us towards the approach path! Sometimes it is very useful to have an instructor on board ;-)