autolycus...focused or focussed as can be seen from this definition in 'Chambers Dictionary online' approx two thirds of the way down and in brackets...............I did go to one of those schools you know where one is expected to present with good Queens English. LOL
focus noun (focuses or foci) 1 the point at which rays of light or sound waves converge or appear to diverge. 2 optics focal point 1. 3 a the condition in which an image is sharp • The picture is in focus; b the state of an instrument producing this image • The telescope is in focus • These binoculars are out of focus. 4 geol in seismology: the location of the centre of an earthquake, where the subterranean fracture takes place and from which the elastic waves radiate outward. See also epicentre. 5 a centre of interest or attention. 6 special attention paid to something • a shift of focus. 7 pathol the main site of an infection. 8 geom a point associated with a conic section where the distance between it and any point on the curve is a fixed ratio (the eccentricity 4) to the distance between that point and a line (the directrix). verb (focused, focusing; focussed, focussing) 1 tr & intr to bring or be brought into focus; to meet or make something meet or converge at a focus. 2 to adjust the thickness of the lens of (the eye) or to move the lens of (an optical instrument) so as to obtain the sharpest possible image of a particular object. 3 to cause (electron beams) to converge or diverge by varying the voltage or current that controls the magnetic or electric fields through which they pass. 4 (often focus something on something) tr & intr to concentrate (one's attention, etc) on it • focused her energies on the problem • focused on the problem.

Anyway to get back to the thread...Dictionaries are great things aren't they.....I read one all the way through....hard to understand the story but some lovely words used!