Notwithstanding that I agree completely with BPF - why not look around for an inexpensive share?
The cheapest syndicates on 2 seaters tend to be around £1000-£1500, £50ish/month, £60ish/hour.
Buy your share, fly your 26 hours between now and Christmas - that cost you around £3k for your 26 hours - not a bad rate of £115/hr.
After that, You can sell your share cheaply - at which point your hours cost around £80/hr, or you can hang onto the share, keep your hours up, have something to practice between CPL lessons cheaply, remind yourself why flying is fun, and learn a lot about flying from being a joint owner sharing the chores of looking after an aeroplane.
Pretty much every flying club you visit will have a syndicate or two like that. I can think of three at White Waltham, at least two of which are currently advertising shares for sale.
G