Thank you , ginge ! That guy certainly has talent , I've been watching his videos for the last half hour .
Glad you liked my clue , I was trying to straighten out the Soul/Cluedo melange off and on all day :)
Cheers to everyone for the kind words .
Aristo - you may well be in luck ! Whilst my recently acquired smartphone can do some weird and wonderful things I still can't work out how to cut'n'paste a message into the forum's reply to thread box .
What I could do is to post the majority of the thing very early and then reveal the word as a "reply" ie post no.2 ,closer to the normal time .
Then again I think I may try and coax the lady in question out of retirement - I wonder if I could tempt her with a drain cover ...