In any case, logging in to the Skywards programme on Emirates.com automatically transfers you to Skywards.com.
Not in my location, perhaps this is the problem. Doing as you say above takes me to:
Skywards | Emirates Airline Not the same page.
This does not show 'earn & spend'. So thank you all for the advise. I have now checked skywards.com and there it is.
Incidentally the followup to my last post about an extra 1,000€ it was because we wanted to stay a night in DXB thus I guess it wasn't effectively straight through. You would have thought EK would want you to stay there and spend more money in their country. So now we will just spend 12 hrs there. Shame really I don't mind the odd day there. Oh well their loss.