'pootling' - to pootle or wander aimlessly around at a sedate pace, carefully gauged to annoy people who walk fast or have long legs.

I don't know where it came from really, but I liked it and adopted it as my own.

It goes with fossicking - to mess about, to rootle round as in a bag of potatoes to try to locate the carrot, and not actually achieve anything useful.

Rootle - to rumage pointlessly in a bag or box, making the maximum of effort to get to the very bottom corners in order to get nothing much at all.

Apparently it only counts as excercise if you get breathless and sweaty. I do that watching Sean Connery films so that's what I'm off to do now.

LTS