"Hmmm, not crazy about that "except to," Steve. ;-) "

Me neither (or, as the yanks might say, me either!)

Actually, I think that one of the problems (certainly one of mine) is that you come up with a construction, review and lovingly embellish it to the point at which anyone reading it would be forced to do a load of mental processing in order to understand it, then cling to it as if it were the precious fruit of your loins - when a far easier thing would be to spend a minute or two ditching the damn thing and completely redrafting your ideas. I think the sign of a really good writer is that his or her stuff possesses crystal clarity of expressed ideas that don't require convoluted metal gymnastics in order to get your head round. We all have to learn the trick of losing our cherished constructions if necessary!