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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
Barmymoo:
The newest chapter in the Ridiculous Travel Adventures of Barmymoo: I went on my friend's canal boat today. I caught a train to Leicester, met them on the canal, we pootled along about fifteen miles (pretty slow progress, it was a hard canal and we were stuck behind several slower boats) and then I got off at about 6pm and walked half a mile to the nearest village to get a bus back to Leicester and the train home.
Except that the last bus left at 6.16pm and I got there at 6.20pm.
I wandered around a bit asking advice from people in the supermarket and then ended up in the pub, where numerous suggestions were made ranging from "you could get a taxi" (£20 at a conservative estimate - not worth it) to "pay me £120 and I'll drive you all the way home" (um no) and "walk to the airport and hire a helicopter" (well obviously yes but no). In the end I texted a friend and she called me while looking on her laptop to see where I could realistically get to. It is times like this when I wish I had a smartphone! The upshot was that I got a taxi for £10 to a village with a train station and then got the train home, which was a lot easier than any of the pub suggestions. Now I am exhausted because it took me 4 hours to make a 50 mile journey after spending 9 hours making a 15 mile one.
The Seldom Killer:
It's for reasons like this I find it very hard to not take a bike on the train.
bainidhe_dub:
My coworkers threw me a surprise baby shower today! They ended up waiting around because I had no idea & was on the phone arguing with the gas company, but once the bossman got me in the room it was really sweet.
Redball:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 21 Aug 2014, 14:15 ---we pootled along
--- End quote ---
What a great word!
I'd have thought it was quite old and quite British. British, but not old.
My dictionary:
pootle |ˈpuːt(ə)l|
verb [ no obj., with adverbial of direction ] Brit. informal
move or travel in a leisurely manner: they were pootling down a canal in their new boat.
ORIGIN 1970s: blend of the verbs poodle and tootle.
pwhodges:
I'm very surprised that there's no citation from before 1977. Poodle, with the same meaning, has citations from 1938, but I'm not conscious of ever having used it, whereas pootle just seems a normal word to me.
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