Time machine not updated

I upgraded my hard drive and reinstalled from time machine backup that i had made just before i took out the old drive. All seems to be working fine but a couple of things have not been updated on time machine. Some recent amendments to pages doc werent saved, a new spreadsheet in numbers was absent and some of the desktop items I have deleted have come back. When i checked the backups on the finder, the most recent backup I made is there but within it some of the files are dated from december. I have nothing listed as "do not update" in the time machine preferences, my external drive is set to back up all. Any help appreciated, although I appreciate that i wont get these documents back now I would like to know what is going on with it for future back ups
Thankyou

Yes, its been creating back ups, if i look in the finder at the time machine there's a back up created for yesterday but the files within it dont seem to have been updated. So theres some folders there with yesterdays date, each with different times but the docs etc inside them are still the old versions, despite me having modified them and saved them yesterday. Will run that log thing you recommended, thankyou

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