I'm back this morning, too late to edit the post above,
I'd been in bed about 30 seconds when I remembered I hadn't done my (happy 70th) renewal online, I'd had to go down the 'forms from the post office' route.
Hopefully, now DVLC have all that info safely tucked away in a box somewhere, I can actually renew online early next year.
I'm not looking forward to it