Thank you, Dee Jay. Sorry for the duplication.
Have resolved the problem. (but no doubt will have more...!)

Thank you! I found this link http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/how-to-get-to-grips-with-your-raspberry-pi-s-command-line-interface-1161712 which gave us some ideas of what to do at the prompt. we will have to experiment some more... when we re-booted, we found the icons (is it called GUI?) ...

Thank you.
I figured out the problem was that I hadn't formatted the card correctly. Have re-formatted and followed the instructions through to configuring raspberian. Now, however, I'm stuck at a pi@raspberrypi prompt and can't figure out what to do!

I have read through most of the instructions but have not found my problem: I think I successfully copied all the NOOB files to my SC card (following instructions on http://www.cpmspectrepi.webspace.virginmedia.com/raspberry_pi/MoinMoinExport/NOOBSinstallV132.html#Downloading.2C_Unzipping_and_Extrac...

I have read through most of the instructions but have not found my problem: I think I successfully copied all the NOOB files to my SC card. When I turned on (plugged in) the Pi, I saw the pretty rainbow colours and then a message about connecting to the internet (which I did not do as I don't want t...