What you pottering at today thread.

[Bob_z_l]

re: Pottering vs Bimbling

I see them as quite similar except, Pottering is you have no plan and a small task presents itself. You get about it, as said with help from Tea and contemplation time.

Bimbling, on the other hand, You have a task, whether you want it or not, and are going about it slowly. Taking every opportunity to stop and procrastinate more. 

 

I am a fan of Pottering. I try not to bimble. :-)

 

[Stephen Blair]

Great weekend effort guys, the way the thread didn’t really stay on track was very in keeping with the whole point of pottering, bumbling and general standing in the shed with slippers on, an oily rag and iPhone with torch because you never got round to getting proper lights and electrics.  I bought a £1300 generator that now has a flat battery so I then bought a battery jump start kit for the generator to power my container that is 12’ from the house which now has an extension cable dangling out a window I’ve now got the fear using in case I burn my house down. 

[Stephen Blair]

On 31/08/2024 at 14:14, Peasgood said:

Cut the garden hedge.

With the tractor.

What were you meant to be doing?  Something else like take out the wheels bin.  And was the use of the tractor complete overkill to amateurs but standard practice and the norm for yourself?  If so, pottering !

[Will C]

I’m pottering clearing the barn up, could of been stump grinding but it’s wet as changed my plan!

might evan get my old tractor out for a bimble to the shop! 

[Peasgood]

1 hour ago, Stephen Blair said:

What were you meant to be doing?  Something else like take out the wheels bin.  And was the use of the tractor complete overkill to amateurs but standard practice and the norm for yourself?  If so, pottering !

I wasn't meant to be doing anything in particular, I was just pottering about. I think I then went off to dig a few potatoes for tea but ended up mending a fork with a broken handle.

[sandspider]

That's kind of the point of pottering. I go out to the garage to fuel a hedge cutter to trim the hedge. But the tractor is in the way, so I try to start the tractor to move it, but the battery's flat. So I go looking for the charger. Have a cup of tea, eventually find charger, plug tractor battery in. But the shelf the battery charger was on is slightly broken, so start fixing that in a leisurely way. Then the wife or / and kids come home, or the phone rings, so nothing else gets done. And I realise I forgot to turn the battery charger on after plugging the tractor battery in!

[peds]

Now THAT is a successful potter. 

[Mik the Miller]

Service the lawn mower, new blades, blow out the air filter and new oil etc

 

[Mark Bolam]

I think that’s a bit too hardcore Mik.

It’s dangerously close to servicing/work.

 

Surely pottering would be the kind of stuff you would happily attempt after 4 cans of Stella?

[maybelateron]

I'm reading the pottering thread on Arbtalk. Does that count as softcore enough to count as pottering?