Is there anyone there?

We are suffering with a lack of contact with the outside world because we have discovered that no-one with a Hotmail address appears to get the e-mails we send. Orange, our e-mail provider, cannot do anything about it, so we shall have to find a workaround, unless Hotmail relents of its policy. The same problem seems to happen with some other Internet service providers, as well.
Meanwhile, we are still awaiting our personal effects, which were originally predicted to arrive last Wednesday and we are now told should arrive sometime next week. It is not clear whether we shall have to pay import duties or not, as personal effects are exempt from import duties and VAT, but the shipping agent has mentioned the subject.
No more photos this time as the weather has been too wet and dull until today. But at least we have had two days without power cuts.
As part of the celebrations to mark the end of Ramadan, we have had groups of children calling during the last two days hoping to be given sweets - very much like "trick or treat" in the UK.