Aah, so heartwarming to see friends rallying to one's defense - thanks Mary, Anahata, Kitty, Hamish, Harry; thanks too, Mack, Wandering Minster and HywG and all who have been dipping into this.
Spaw, no offence taken, but do start rewriting the rhyme - my package arrived today and I'll be reading the manual tonight. By Monday, Mark II should be up (would have done it tomorrow, but the dayjob gets in the way of life). It's only Homepage Builder, nothing fancy, but on the basis that anything is better than Word...

Here goes - "Chapter One: What is a computer"...