A bit of a blur

As well as being a blogging addict, I am becoming a digital-photo-taking addict (I wouldn't classify what I do as photography).

Hanging the washing on the line just now - it is a wonderful drying day - I was accompanied by a sweet little robin who was singing his heart out. I rushed inside to find the camera, got back out but fiddled around for so long trying to find him in the viewer that he gave up and flew away.

I am convinced the camera doesn't point at the thing it is photographing. For example, if I want to take a photo centred and focused on A, then I have to point the camera slightly to the left of A. Is this normal? The way cameras work? Or do we just have a dodgy camera?

Things aren't helped by my age-corrupted eyesight. Not being able to see clearly what I'm focusing on is a bit of a bummer; as is not being able to tell if the automatic focus is working properly. It isn't usually. Not when I'm trying to do close-ups. Husband has explained to me what setting I have to use but my memory is age-corrupted as well.

Talking about a bit of a bummer, i don't know what I did in circuits last night but my right buttock aches.

But all that was really just to explain why this photo isn't very clear.

It's my little fan heater. I have it on in the study when I'm working. The idea is that it is more efficient to warm this room than the whole of the house. It's my idea anyway. Could be right.

Anyway, if you can see, you'll see there are two dials. The top one controls how hot I want it to be; the bottom one has different settings. The settings include one called ECO.

I am under the belief that this stands for Economy, but how can that be? If the temperature is controlled by the top dial, then if I set the bottom dial on Economy, will it make me as warm more cheaply i.e. send a message to the Electricity shop and tell them I'm using the Economy setting so please don't charge me so much? Or will it use less energy - but take longer so it has to be on for longer - to reach the same temperature? Or is it just a magic button that was invented by a genius who worked out how to create energy from nothing? Thus disproving every law of energy there is, I expect.

That's it. And he was employed by the Electricity people who obviously don't want people knowing how to make energy from nothing or they'll be out of business, so they a) bribed him to keep quiet; b) said they'd use it as they have in my fan heater just to keep him happy; c) kidnapped him and even now he is a prisoner in a castle somewhere in deepest Cumbria.

Now for anyone who reads this who thinks I should be working i.e. Husband and Daughter, I'm on my lunch break.