For a moment he imagined he was back in Obilic, a town filled with pottering sheep.
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You just want to watch them pottering around their snowy little homes all day, ideally with David Attenborough's voice in the background.
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In contrast to the streets of Pompeii that bustled with tourists, Herculaneum's streets were totally tranquil, with just a few people pottering around.
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He objected to being seen as the typical reclusive British eccentric, pottering away in his workshop at inventions that made fortunes for someone else.
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My starter world was fairly barren bar some pretty indifferent life forms pottering about, waiting for me to scan them for a units-rewarding discovery.
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He spends his days pottering around the fields, smoking bidis and drinking cheap brandy, sometimes playing a board game of his own invention with schoolchildren.
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At one point, half-formed memories begin to play Lynchian tricks on his mind, from a ballroom dance, to half-human half-dog creatures pottering about in the background.
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Rory Stewart [Secretary of State for International Development of the United Kingdom] admitted to smoking opium while pottering around Iran, while Dominic Raab said he'd smoked weed as a student at Oxford.
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Just as a vehicle designed for the racetrack can prove ungainly when driven slowly around town, boats that are honed for speed can be difficult to handle when pottering about, and vice versa.
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I like listening to podcasts while I'm pottering around in the kitchen and highly recommend this episode of The Nod hosted by Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings, which is all about grape flavor.
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We'd been together for a year-and-a-half, a mixture of long and short distance, both pottering arm-in-arm through the no man's land of uncertainty that is life right after college.
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Don't Die have been pottering about playing shows with Molar and Bruising and lots of other bummer pop bands since last summer, but today they're putting out their first release which we're premiering below.
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The answer is that while induction motors are ideal for electric vehicles built for speed (like Teslas), they are not all that efficient when used for pottering around town or cruising lazily down the highway.
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Scratcha DVA's remix of Julie Adenuga favourite "The Invincible" is one of those slow-motion, gravity-free bass-heavy objects that seems to exist in a different dimension to the one we're currently pottering around in.
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One moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.
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The role of the planet on which the crew lands is taken by an especially dramatic patch of New Zealand, the country that played host to "The Lord of the Rings," and I could swear I saw a stray hobbit pottering about.
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Instead, she is happiest when pottering around the grounds of her dacha located 100 kilometers outside Moscow, where she spends her time "in the fresh air with flowers and many kinds of plants", or when she is visiting the gymnastics school set up in her honor in Obninsk.
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When you're in a working jail, like I was, during the week you're at work during the day, and then you have half an hour of social time in the evening; but at the weekend there's no work, so a lot of the time, if there's no computer on, you're just pottering around, doing nothing.
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Yesterday afternoon, boredly pottering around the house, I decided to take some initiative.
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They grasped that the thought of jumping in the car to waste time pottering around a hypermarket is losing appeal as shown by all the figures at European level and particularly in France.
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We > were sponsoring the Tour of the North and International Cycle Sport was one > of the sponsors. He turned up on his bike, just pottering about. He seemed > more interested in riding his bike than covering the race. Which was his > downfall, really.
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In the 2001 Census the population of the whole parish was recorded as 648 in 257 households. Potterhanworth appears in the Domesday survey as "Haneworde". In Old English this meant "Hana's homestead" or "Hana's farmstead".Boston Standard - Pottering about on picturesque ramble It is part of the Wapentake of Langoe.
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The major income activities in Melamchi area are services, pottering, business, tourism and remittances. Operation of water mills and fishing are also the major off-farm activities. Fishing is another source of income generating actively for the economically disadvantaged groups of the area. Disadvantaged group includes particularly Majhi, Danuwar, Tamang and Damai & Kami.
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He was in charge of oriental books. Reay held the professorship until his death, and remained at the Bodleian until retiring with a pension in 1860. Colleagues at the library fondly remembered "his habits of pottering around the library in search of his spectacles and hovering over hot-air gratings in search of warmth". He was also curate for a time of the church of St Peter-le-Bailey, Oxford.
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A young woman hanging clothes on a line happily points out the arrival of "manine" or fluffy poplar seeds floating on the wind. The old man pottering beside her replies, "When fluff-balls come, cold winter's done." In the village square, schoolboys jump around trying to pluck puffballs out of the air. Giudizio (Aristide Caporale), the town idiot, looks into the camera and recites a poem to spring and the "manine".
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Shenoute also utilized the time of the monks, outside prayer and worship, in more varied tasks within the monastery than the Nitrian monks were exposed to. Aside from the traditional trades of rope and basket weaving, the monks engaged in weaving and tailoring linen, cultivation of flax, leather work and shoe-making, writing and book-binding, carpentry, and metal and pottering-making. All in all, Shenouda tried as much as possible to employ the monks in their old professions. Such activities made the monastery a vast self-supporting complex, which occupied some of land.
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The master of Blandings is, nominally at least, Lord Emsworth. Clarence, the ninth Earl, is an amiably absent-minded old chap, who is charming because of his slow, relaxed lifestyle and the simple obsessions that make him oblivious to the absurd melodrama of his family, namely his home, gardens, pumpkins, and his champion pig, Empress of Blandings. He is never happier than when pottering about the grounds on a fine sunny day. Lord Emsworth's ten sisters (all of whom look like the "daughter of a hundred earls", except for Hermione, who looks like a cook), his brother Galahad ("Gally"), his daughter Mildred, his sons Freddie and George, and his numerous nieces, nephews, and in-laws inhabit the castle from time to time.
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The modern version of the Anzac Day match was conceived by then Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy while pottering in his garden in the mid-1990s. Sheedy, who had served two years in the army after being drafted to Richmond in 1969, thought back to the success of the Collingwood–Richmond game in 1977, and considered how football on Anzac Day could pay suitable tribute to those who had served their country. Sheedy organised a meeting with officials from Essendon and Collingwood, and the then Victorian RSL President Bruce Ruxton, who was also a keen Collingwood supporter, and proposed his concept for a game which would honour the Anzac spirit. Despite their previous opposition to football on Anzac Day, Ruxton and the RSL agreed with Sheedy's proposal, as did the AFL.
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Instead Chapel had been employed by O'Connell as but part of a prospecting party to follow up on O'Connell's initial gold find, a prospecting party which, according to contemporary local pastoralist Colin Archer, "after pottering about for some six months or more, did discover a gold-field near Canoona, yielding gold in paying quantities for a limited number of men".Colin Archer, Journal, 8 October 1858 (Mitchell Library, Sydney, MS 3920) O'Connell was in Sydney in July 1858 when he reported to the Government the success of the measures he had initiated for the development of the goldfield which he had discovered. This first Queensland goldrush resulted in about 15,000 people flocking to this sparsely populated area in the last months of 1858. This was, however, a small goldfield with only shallow gold deposits and with no where near enough gold to sustain the large number of prospectors.
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When the Berlin Declaration was promulgated on 27 March 2007, three heads of government refused to sign because the declaration contained no reference to God, religion or Europe's supposed Christian heritage, and the declaration was eventually signed only by Angela Merkel as president of the European Council, Hans-Gert Pottering, president of the European Parliament, and Jose Maunuel Barroso, President of the European Commission. The declaration was then incorporated as the Preamble into the daft of the European Constitution. One of the reasons for the success of the campaign was that rather than attempt to obtain a million or more signatures from ordinary citizens the campaign enlisted the support of 1000 leading Europeans including elder statesmen, religious leaders and Nobel laureates, all with considerable influence in their respective countries. One not entirely unexpected result of the campaign was that a furious Pope Benedict XVI declared that "Europe has lost its soul" and demanded an invitation to address the European parliament.
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He shuns his administrative duties and generally has a secretary to handle such things; amongst the occupants of this post have been the likes of Hugo Carmody, Monty Bodkin and Psmith, although by far the best known, and least appreciated by his Lordship, is Rupert Baxter, the bespectacled efficiency expert, who made Emsworth's life a misery with his ruthless organisation of his master's precious time. Emsworth's favourite pastimes are his pig and his garden, and he spends many a happy hour pottering about it, arguing with his gardeners, especially Angus McAllister, whose desire to gravel the famous Yew Alley is particularly upsetting to his Lordship, and with his pig-keepers, who include Wellbeloved, Pirbright, and the Amazonian Monica Simmons. He won first prize for roses at the Shrewsbury Flower Show in the same year Psmith's father won the tulip prize, and he is invariably amongst the competitors in Shropshire's Agriculture Show. He has some success in the field of large pumpkins, taking first prize in the competition with his "Blandings Hope" (cruelly nicknamed "Percy" by his son Freddie).
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