
Another day, and another week pootles by. Are there more made up, gibberish and yet entirely understandable words for pottering about that anything else? Is it the English equivalent of the Eskimos and their bazillion words for snow? Mrs. Toad always accuses the cat of 'foostering about' somewhere. Dylan from Blueback Hotrod is forever going on about 'bimbling' off somewhere. It's all gibberish, but you all know exactly what it means, don't you? It's obviously just something we English speakers take great pride in: doing something without any real sense of purpose and perfectly happy to be distracted [...]