Bloke,
This has been an incredibly bad year for flying so far. I'm trying to learn to fly a flexwing microlight, been available every evening, and managed just over two hours so far. I'm thinking of starting a thread on it to cheer you all up - but wasn't going to in case I prove to be as slow at it as I was at learning to fly both f/w and helicopters, but who cares, maybe I'll start it.
But seriously, while weather is always a problem in the UK, I think it's been exceptionally bad this year.