got bored with it and it cost too much
So I gave up - especially as a series of redundancies from a collapsing UK manufacturing industry cut my income. But I continued to look up at aircraft flying overhead for the next few years.
Now I can afford it, I revalidated my licence and now fly a taildragger from a grass strip - it's been (and still is!) challenging but great fun - and costs a fraction of spam can hire. The taildragger rating also allows me to fly much cheaper aircraft.