Griffo. I apologise to you and other Flight Service officers who may have been offended by my comments.
I realise that you always followed the rules as set by the bosses at the time.
In modern times I would prefer a full ATC separation service when I am in the terminal area in IMC at places like Ballina.
If the USA can afford to give this clearly safer service at every non tower airport with an instrument approach surely we can do it at one or two!
Why pay for air traffic controllers when flying IFR in IMC if they don't even provide a control service?