Thank you for your comments. Yes, we are a people separated by a common language! Being a Yank I think in Imperial, metric is not foreign to me, just not as inborn. As Thomas complained, too much details can get a guy's stroke off, there is much more emotional development as well as character explanation woven into future chapters. I haven't written fiction in many years, then it was screenplays. Necessarily, that style requires a LOT of detail! I write as I "see" the action as well as experience it in my mind. As far as "thinking to ones'self"....My spouse certainly thinks out loud, which is quite disconcerting at times. Formating apparently shifts from the htm that I write in and the posted configuration. Still working on that one. I do appreciate the comments; it's difficult to find a good editor for this type of work. I hope you enjoy the subsequent chapters.