I didn’t have the Storefront theme, the only other theme I had installed was TwentyTwentyTwo and it was the same when I activated that theme, WooC couldn’t be activated and it doesn’t show up in the dashboard view. The strange thing is that I started to build the site on a different domain as a developer site and it works just fine there, for address look at private content area. Very strange all of it!
Some other thing that is strange is that when I try to re-install woocommerce from the Customise dashboard I’m directed to what seems like a Russian WooCommerce site even though the address says and shows https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/
What can it be? My problem (that is the question of the day!)