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Down the coast at my Tulum cabana I peer out from the heat of the midday sun at a tourist pottering with intent on the beach.
I know it's silly but I've grown used to my quiet little life, pottering about the house and garden, teasing the cats and tending the plants.
Most of the population seemed to be pottering around the streets and there were dozens of stalls groaning under the weight of roast pigs.
Yesterday afternoon, boredly pottering around the house, I decided to take some initiative.
It can only be a matter of time before I'm indulging in home brewing of real ale, or pottering around my garden while doing some pruning.
It works for pottering around in barefoot at home or layered up with thermals, tights and a cardie for winter workdays.
It was my mum who introduced me to gardening, even if it was something as simple as pottering in the back garden.
I've never been much of a potterer but I've done some amount of pottering about over the last few days!
She could hear him pottering about the adjoining room, arranging crockery and cutlery.
People are just wandering to church in their purple nylon jackets, or pottering along in rackety Skodas.
I find it hard to keep plodding or pottering away with mid-level tasks every day.
Had he not always been swathed in white robes, you could have imagined him in a cardie, pottering round his vegetable patch with his little grandson.
My greatest pleasure of the weekend came from simply pottering about in the delightful and picturesque Jordaan district, which I'd love to call home forevermore.
I look out into the grey mizzle and wonder again what a terrorist would want with a few oddballs pottering around the moors.
She always remained attached to her Scottish roots and on retiring spent her summers pottering in her cottage in the north of Scotland, with her Abyssinian cats.
Her son, Rahul Gandhi, a timid would-be prime minister, was as ever absent, pottering around in the politics of Uttar Pradesh.
Its members pay paltry sums to keep it pottering along, on the assumption that it would never have to do much.
People were, unsurprisingly, at their happiest when eating, carousing or pottering around the garden.
Graham is happily pottering about the house and gardens, doing the light jobs, and a deal of his time is freeing up, leaving him at liberty to pursue other interests.
The very little ones will enjoy the pottering, thematic days, tours with our horse carriage, theatre, forest and swimming pool games, playback show and so on!
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In July he shakes EIS foreigners off and comes up here for six weeks' vacant pottering in his orchard.
Then she saw old Lawdor pottering in and out of a room into which she had not yet looked.
What did that pottering vagabond mean by arousing us in the middle of the night?
I am not fit for anything more now than pottering about with my fishing-lines.
And what a pottering old rascal Charley was among the stone walls.
In an humble and pottering way, we are a happy family, James.
He left the room and she heard him pottering in the kitchen.
Just as if we hadn't had enough tinkering and pottering lately.
The men were a sculptor, pottering with clay, and his model.
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