BS
Unfortunately this is the internet, not a table in a pub, so if you write XYZ you must expect somebody to read XYZ. I also did say I didn't intend to take the micky.
You wrote that you couldn't see a bloody thing; that doesn't sound like VFR to me. VFR is anything over 3000m vis, or 1500m if you have an IMCR or an IR.