This issue did not continue to present itself so no worries anymore.

To whom it may interest this may have something to do with the unusual conditions at my location. I arrived abroad in airplane mode and when I went online I was on the edge of coverage (mostly no signal), no roaming allowed and using local wifi network. I think I had internet sharing when I went to airplane mode and when coming back online the combination was odd enough to cause the oddities. But they dissappeared after reboots and did not reappear.