Do you like pootling?

I am sure you have !!!

Goodness gracious , who else do you think I was speaking for ?????????????????

Nonu, please speak only for yourself. I am extremely happy on my own - believe me, I have had plenty of chances if I wanted a partner.
I find that people tend to believe that whatever they want in life must be what everybody else wants too. Well, it isn't.

Galen, I'm sure you can pootle on a scooter. Would that be scootling?

I would never pootle with my OH.He is definitely a strider.When we go on holiday, I always say 'Let's split up for an hour' so I can pootle in peace.

I must start going out again! At the moment I'm only ever at home alone or at the tribunals.
I must be a very sad person!

I am lucky to have the right man .

The right man is the greatest boon we women could have.

There is Nothing nicer than having a companion to share things with .

last little rays

Used to do when oh was alive.no point now!unless I'm in the med!even then I prefer company.

That's why then Greatnan, I don't do a fast walk I'm afraid!

We will all have to pootle, potter, etc. in our own way! I saunter when pootling, in contrast to striding out when I am doing long walks with my poles.

Pootling for me, has some purpose whereas mimsing doesn't. I can mims around shops for ages without buying a thing, when pootling I walk faster.

I don't think many men understand the concepts - it has to be aimless or it doesn't count.

Been trying to explain the difference between pootling (slow journeying), mooching (shops usually involved) and pottering (generally about the house) to DH. He hid behind the paper before I could even start on dilly dallying

I have found getting lost is a great way to get to know an area! Sometimes I don't use a map but just follow my nose up promising looking little lanes. They often end up in a farmyard and there is always an old lady sitting outside the door shelling peas. I just give her a friendly wave and execute one of my legendary 30-point turns. There are often dogs barking and geese flapping about.
My ex husband always went from A to B - very boring!

We are inveterate pootlers and often decide to just have a day or half day out at a small town we have never visited, lunch and come home. Doing that we have discovered all sorts of useful services and shops. .

We are also car pootlers. The cry in our family is 'that way be quicker but this way be prettier'. We recently spent a full day on a 4 - 5 hour journey to Co Durham, we visited a couple of small towns, 2 churches and chanced on a really nice pub for lunch. Where was it, I haven't a clue!

I once broke down near Nimes and it was a bank holiday weekend - which means four days closed usually, in France. My insurance company found me an hotel and paid for all my meals and my room. So I pootled around Nimes, a very interesting town, and went to the Pont du Gard when I got my car back.
The whole area is full of history and interest. I nearly settled there, but I find some of the scenery a bit arid. However, I will have a drive down there in Summer - it is only about four hours on the motorway.

You got there ahead of me Yogagran .

Something people often forget to do when pootling is to look up. The roof lines of buildings can be both fascinating and revealing.

I liked Avignon and the surrounding area. Never realised that there was so many Roman ruins in the area - quite incredible. I love the Pont du Gard

BTW - we "putter about"

A warm welcome, Gigi - there are a couple of other great-grandmothers on Gransnet, but I got in first with the name!
Yes, Avignon is lovely. I have lived in many different departments of France, plus Monaco and Brussels. I now live in a little ski resort in the French Alps, about 26 kms South of Lake Geneva, and Juragran lives on the Swiss side of the lake.
Pudding is the cat and she likes to sleep on my bed. I love to hear her purring - such a contented sound! Gatsby, the dog, is even older than me in dog years, and she can't walk very far now, so I take her as far as she wants to go every morning, then she just stands still and give me that 'Let's go home' look. Once she has had her walk and her breakfast, I am free to go exploring until the afternoon.
I miss having a cat of my own, but as I live in a second floor flat and travel for about three months of the year, it would not practicable, so I am just a foster-mother to Juragran's pets.

Welcome Gigi, you will love Avignon it is wonderful. I have danced on the bridge There are some wonderful restaurants especially Christian Etienne.

Gigi, enjoy Avignon. I have only been through it when I flew there three years ago and went by TGV two years ago to be picked up by DS and taken to Vaison la Romaine. We didn't have time to explore the city. I thought it looked lovely even from the train.

I haven't been to Avignon since I was in my teens! I loved it. I'd love to go again.