Thank you all for your kind words, and especially to Jno for going to the trouble of posting this thread. And thank you to AOG who was also (mostly) supportive on another thread. Your words of support are most welcome at this distressing time.
Contrary to the above, I still cannot log in as Gromit, some careless bu88er as lost the key and I am still in the AB dungeon. But the Ed tells me a locksmith is looking into it.