Aaargh! This is madness. Email now to say that the hotmail sending had arrived without the attachments. Just for a moment I thought I'd done the classic thing of forgetting to attach the attachments. But then I recalled that a) hotmail had taken some time over it and b) they'd arrived at my home email account no problem.

I have no idea what is going on with their email system or just possibly theirs and mine in conjunction with each other. But I've not had this problem with anyone else that I can think of.