You flew in VFR. Try going in from the airways, getting ATIS, preparing plates etc.
True...but once inside the zone I was climbed above cloud and put on the ILS.
Certainly G-DOME that resides at Old Sarum has quite a good nav/com fit. OK it doesn't have autopilot or IFR GPS but with dual radios, dual VOR, Loc/Glide, ADF, DME all nicely laid out it's fine for flying 'beginner to intermediate' IMC.
I'm hoping to do the IR next year...perhaps when that's finished I'll come back and think about this again.