Do you like pootling?

Welcome to GN Giginanna, enjoy your break in Avignon. I`ve wanted to go there ever since we learned the song in junior school!

This was my first post on gransnet so I don't know much about it,but just looking around over the last few minutes it sounds like you chose the best name! Loved your jokes! So you are in France! We are heading there on Saturday to Avignon. ... Making a break; ,a magical mystery tour ,to find some sunshine and relinquish the responsibilities, just for a week! So nice to meet you!

I didn't know there was a cat as well. I think you should tell us all about her/him and send pussycat greetings across the mountains to Phoenix' cats.

Thank you Gigi - I am not actually on holiday - well, no more than I am permanently! I live in France but this month I am house/dog/cat/plants sitting for Juragran, who live in Switzerland, but close to the French border. It means she and her husband can visit their family in England without worrying, as I have done it several times and the pets know me.
It gives me a chance to widen my exploring - there are so many lovely historic towns and pretty villages in the area.

We love pottering, pootling and faffing. Trouble is we usually have Gch with us and they aren't so keen.

Hi Greatnan, sounds like you have had a wonderful day .Pootling, by the way is absolutely considered to be exercise and much better than a route march; pootling is mind and body exercise! Body pleased and mind relaxed ,which equals rejuvenation!!
I think you probably deserve a second glass of wine ,bearing in mind the steep hill! Cheers.... And enjoy the rest of your break.

We not only pootle, we faff too.

I like the idea that the activity is essentially pointless time wasting! So much of our lives are directed towards reaching goals, it is nice to just be sometimes.

Even more than pottering. My Malaysian friend always says "What exactly is pottering?" and I'm hard pushed to explain.

Love pootling! There's always something to look at if you take your time in places that are new to you. It's also very important to ensure that when you are pootling around, that if you stare through an antique/bric-a-brac shop window, it really is a shop - and not someone's living room which has a lovely assortment of dusty old jugs on the windowsill

Pooling is definitely one of my favourite things, and Theseus is a good pootler, because he he always knows where he's going!

I love a pootle, it exercises my happiness factor.

we call it pottering or mooching about, I love a good mooch around new shops and places. x

I love to pootle (what a lovely word and one you don't hear very much now). Your day sounds wonderful.