Pottering

In the meantime, I am once again pottering about here on the ancestral estate by myself and alternately enjoying doing whatever I like without regard to anyone else's wants and needs and missing having Someone Else's wants and needs to take into consideration. ❋ John (2008)

I can conceive of nothing more bitter than an interminable old age spent in pottering about and in ill-natured idleness, and I can't see that we are doing anything to make possible a better use of the boon of longer life. ❋ Unknown (1951)

I recalled pottering around in there several times. ❋ Cook, Glen (1985)

The urge to want to "get on with it" and paint overwhelms me wanting to spend alot of time fixing up the surface of something, that said, when I'm lazy myself and in a "pottering" mood, I tend to get rid of my anxiety by painting and re-painting canvas surfaces. ❋ Zillabob (2008)

She must not, on any account, force down -- as her female friends or as a "pottering" old nurse may advise -- to "grinding pains"; if sue does, it will rather retard than forward her labor. ❋ B. G. Jefferis (N/A)

It is always best to put animals which are at all likely to pull, through a regular course of cub hunting from the very beginning of the season, so that they may gradually work along from the "pottering" to the galloping stage. ❋ Alice M. Hayes (1873)

Lord Cumnor was a forbearing landlord; putting his steward a little on one side sometimes, and taking the reins into his own hands now and then, much to the annoyance of the agent, who was, in fact, too rich and independent to care greatly for preserving a post where his decisions might any day be overturned by my lord's taking a fancy to go 'pottering' (as the agent irreverently expressed it in the sanctuary of his own home), which, being interpreted, meant that occasionally the earl asked his own questions of his own tenants, and used his own eyes and ears in the management of the smaller details of his property. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

She was much too young to be a visitor at the school, so it was not on that account that she was to go; but it had so happened that one day when Lord Cumnor was on a 'pottering' expedition, he had met Mr. Gibson, _the_ doctor of the neighbourhood, coming out of the farm-house my lord was entering; and having some small question to ask the surgeon (Lord Cumnor seldom passed any one of his acquaintance without asking a question of some sort -- not always attending to the answer; it was his mode of conversation), he accompanied Mr. Gibson to the out-building, to a ring in the wall of which the surgeon's horse was fastened. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

Wednesday night Iwas out inmy yard, happily pottering about in the flowers when the call came in. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Alsace is a perfect place for pottering about with its Route de Vin (alsace-route-des-vins.com) easily negotiated by bicycle, so long as you're prepared for the occasional steep hill (you're in the foothills of the Vosges here). ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's paradoxical that Lovelock, the futurist, lives more like an 18th-century scientist, pottering in a barn that doubles as his lab. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I'm declaring it a day of aimless pottering instead, and eventually I will make butterscotch cupcakes for TBRE's (belated) birthday. ❋ Matociquala (2010)

Already he can see the two of them together, her pottering in the garden – he hopes she has a garden – or cooking dinner in the kitchen, while he explains to her the theory behind his latest project, or two, or three. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Pied wagtails can often be seen pottering about on pavements and roadside verges, picking up these meagre morsels of food with that sharp, pointed bill. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The number of things you call yours is likely the number of steps you are away from enlightenment, and a materially cluttered life just gives you more excuses not to think about life's important issues because you're too busy pottering around with your stuff. ❋ Arthur Rosenfeld (2012)

Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers8. 30pm, BBC1Nigel Slater stops pottering on the allotment to make dinners worth looking away from the TV for. ❋ Martin Skegg (2010)

The layout encourages a gently circular wandering; it's like pottering round a garden. ❋ Unknown (2011)

[Ram] was [pottering] [around] ❋ Rishav (2018)

“Potter, [is it] true you [fainted]? [I mean] you actually fainted? ❋ Yeetmysanity (2019)

Hey there Stephanie Hyphen-Surname, we've got our" [Wanky] Politics and General [Disillusionment]" [lecture] in 10 minutes! Ok I'll meet you at The Potter. ❋ Kavdog (2010)

[I hope] to [one day] [fall in love] with a Potter. ❋ Maddiemae (2009)

Actually being around a [dementor] sucks all the happiness out of you. The only way a dementor can take [your soul] is if they [kiss] you. You can't have your soul taken just by being around them. Dumbass, you just got Pottered!! ❋ Brofessor_Oak (2011)

I [bought] this [pot] from [the potter] ❋ The_Sonya (2006)

[Lee] not been on [skype] today ? Nah think hes [pottering] ❋ Carefree_Ste (2012)

Person #1: OMFG! Did you hear? [The Last Jedi] is coming out this weekend! *waves hands and jumps excitedly * Potterist: *shrugs* Meh. Person #1: BUT HOW CAN YOU NOT BE EXCITED AS HELL?!?! Potterist: I'm watching The Order of [The Phoenix] this weekend. *[grins]* Person #1: Of course you wouldn't be excited with anything else. You live a Potterism life. Fine. ._. Potterist: :D Person #1: ;-; ❋ Tiny Purple Sheep (2017)

After finishing [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone], I was [totally] [potterized]. ❋ PrettierThanYourGF (2016)

Man i love being a [potter], me and [cindy] did [the potter] all night! ❋ Mr. Muffins Manz (2008)