MightyGem, since our European partners got involved with aviation the regulatory requirements for maintaning currency are are mess, but most of us stick to the old 2 hours, 3 appraoches every 90 days.
Like Ariston we fly the ILS at least once a month.
Crab: zillions of hours in a straight line, no prep for inadvertant? A lot of my IF was on top in glorious sunshine, and a decent into cloud - visual flying transfering to instruments. The only difference is inadvertant IMC means getting up to MSA as quickly as possible. And before everyone jumps in talking about the freezing level, I would hope we all look at that as part of normal preflight planning.