OTHER NOTES:

...this evening, I was to decide to open another email address...just in case that emily_gyde@yahoo.co.uk address was the problem....

yahoomail UK now requires your mobile phone number...isn't that odd? a mobile number is required....not a landline number....go figure.

anyway, a verification code will be sent to my mobile...and then I can start using my new address - which will be:

emily_gyde2@yahoo.co.uk

...and tomorrow I will send CHP an email...to see if my new address works....in fact I could go the whole hog and send all of those backdated emails which the CHP postmaster has had problems in delivering...just to see if it works....watch this space.