A trip with an instructor is still flying, and in many ways is as enjoyable and certainly at an early stage in flying as valuable as a solo.
Now is your chance to experience flight in iffy conditions safely, or practice routing around the LondonTMA, or even worse, Stanstead.
It will cost the price of an instructor, but you have saved this up in your 7 month layoff. You will get to route plan, do a take off and landing anyway, and probably a PFL could be fitted in.
As the weather will be unreliable until June, better to go for dual exercises to add to your experience, then do the check ride when you wont have to spend a couple more months twittering over TAF's.
PS I am not an instructor, but I did have the pleasure of a lot of post PPL flying with an instructor as a friend, and they were some of the most enjoyable trips.