Mary, thanks also for the reply although I feel you may be slightly tarring all new pilots with the same brush a little, with all of them not being able to make sensible decisions nor resist pressonitis... And your comments really apply to any flight, not just business travel.
I fully acknowledge that I am masssively inexperience, and wouldn't begrudge anyone that would prefer not to join me in the plane. I also fully ackowledge the potential for wx to have an impact, as it would with any flight. I have a shiney new BMW on the drive and don't pay a penny for fuel so it's no hardship at all for me if I have to drive instead.
I have to gain experience somehow, and IF the rare opportunity presents itself for me to travel in the plane and it's legal then I'll take it, assuming the conditions are 100%, otherwise I might as well have not bothered getting a PPL at all?