busies

There's the usual prefatory shenanigans with father Pod (Christopher Eccleston) mountain-climbing the stairs to get into a tin of Quality Street, while his bored teenager Arrietty (Aisling Loftus) sulks in her sleeping bag (a hiking sock) and missus Homily (Sharon Horgan) busies herself in a kitchenette fashioned from pencil stubs and bottle tops.

Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights 2011

Dorothy, a war widow, is a painfully uptight figure who busies herself with household affairs and who even regards wearing a pinny in front of visitors as a breach of decorum.

Grief at Cottesloe, London – review | Michael Billington 2011

She busies herself reading and responding back, which shuts her up for a while.

Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011

By this point, Cattrall's Cleopatra has been so finely gauged, so quick to switch between histrionics, coquetry and calculation (when Antony is absent she settles spectacles on her nose, a chair at her desk and busies herself signing papers of state) that we still cannot tell whether she loves him or not.

Antony and Cleopatra – review Clare Brennan 2010

She lowers her head, busies herself looking through the appointment book.

Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011

She lowers her head, busies herself looking through the appointment book.

Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011

She lowers her head, busies herself looking through the appointment book.

Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011

She busies herself reading and responding back, which shuts her up for a while.

Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011

She busies herself reading and responding back, which shuts her up for a while.

Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011

To address some comments: ISS's orbit is no 'backwater LEO'; Actually it's 'prime LEO' in some sense (i.e. earth observation, busies launch sites accessibility)

David Leckrone's Premature Judgement of ISS - NASA Watch 2009