pottered

"pottered" about, with ever a smile on her face for her boys.

Sergeant York And His People

So I pottered instead and did a bit more housework and started easing by brain towards The Reluctant Mage and by golly, I got to bed at a reasonable hour.

A new week ... karenmiller 2009

I couldn't see it as she pottered about making coffee, fussed over her uneaten carrot cake and talked me through the events of his death and the subsequent trial.

Australia's dark heart Will Storr 2010

(For some reason I never really pottered around Europe:)

NZ/Aus Guest Author: Nicola Marsh Nalini Singh 2009

Much of last week, for Britain, was wasted while David Cameron pottered around the Middle East with a posse of arms manufacturers and Nick Clegg strapped his half-term skis on.

Libya: Gaddafi's cronies must desert or be damned | Observer editorial 2011

The drawings were full of details from their domestic life: her grandmother also pottered about carrying a basket of keys, and in the renovation of their own house they had recently discovered a bundle of huge, ancient keys.

Ronald Searle cartoons go on show to help breast cancer charities 2011

I laughed out loud, thanked her, and pottered off.

Gay Dad 2011

On deck, for'ard, a dozen blacks pottered clumsily at scraping the teak rail.

A SON OF THE SUN 2010

Cheerful Mrs Mole pottered happily around her idyllic home, stitching patchwork, making cakes, stirring pots, arranging flowers, at an absolutely gruesome time in the lives of the cartoonist Ronald Searle and his wife, Monica.

Ronald Searle cartoons go on show to help breast cancer charities 2011

First Sehwag, then Sachin Tendulkar, whose customary standing ovation as he made his way to the middle was followed by another 11 minutes later as he pottered back again, his defensive prod sliced to third slip.

India 224, England 84-0 | Third Test day one match report 2011