I made it to Germany, finally: my bags haven't

Well shit, do I have an Airport story.
Useless, useless, useless.
I won't go into all the details at the moment, but basically:
1. I was at the airport in plenty of time, and my flight left about on time (I think), but I was not on it. I missed my flight due to being messed around by the BA staff and their lack of organisation and communication.
2. Was booked into the flight tomorrow morning after being told that was the only one available.
3. Went and spoke with someone else and was put on stand-by for the 2pm flight.
4. Was put on the 2pm flight (which left at about 3pm). Hurray! Almost....
5. Arrived in Hamburg, good, great, made it. Unfortunately my bags, along with about half the other people's on the flight, didn't make it.

So now I'm in Germany with nothing to wear and no toothbrush...
We are going to pick up Stefan at the airport now. Perhaps, hopefully, my bags will be on the flight with him.