Thanks for your reply, I have been away for a few days [GAL]
I think you are right about control - completely pointless of course, as it is a court order, and his action delayed things by perhaps one or two days.
My therapist friend thinks xh is becoming extremely unstable, and this is further evidence. There was absolutely no point at all to the action, and then immediately after he did this I get a really friendly email. I decided to ignore the email for a while.