Steam/smoke coming from the kitchen?? Am eagerly awaiting WIP 583.... :-) (When I 1st read Gormenghast, many years ago now, it was the 1st novel I'd ever read that was so full of well-done description that I could mentally picture it and even taste the chalk-dust floating in the air of the schoolroom..) Well done! A major epic journey in the making! Cheers, Diolma