OK! Well answer still counts!!
I have now just spoken to a manager in India. I am getting about the South East Asia area - I wish. TalkTalk have now admitted that they have a server down and - more or less to the south east of London - where I live. It has been down for two thirds of the past two weeks. I have got a 'promise' if you can call it that. That I will be called as soon as the server is up again. I will be checking anyway.
I also got a promise that I will be offered compensation as soon as I am server satisfied. Now I have to work out what that should be. Anyone have examples of it?
Anyway I have been using webmail and gmail The former on ONE of my addresses only and the latter on three of my addresses. Unfortunately I have no way of knowing if I should have received from either. A new problem is that my android tinkles its bell to let me know I have mail - but there isn't any!
Good fun it is not.