Sentences with phrase «faffing around»

Before you get to see the prisoner in their white overalls you have to spend 90 minutes faffing around (also designed to stymie any attempts to exchange contraband during your visit).

It doesn't look like much, but this little bottle will save you from faffing around with butter and flour.

So the obstetrician and I decided to skip the 24 hours of faffing around with all those pointless double contractions and go the surgery route straight up.

I don't always do this, much depends on the time I have for faffing around in the say, but I do like to change things occasionally.

To avoid any faffing around with extra bedding, look for air beds that come with pillows built in, or even sleeping bags.

We have three days in New York [it's a short fantasy holiday, we can't leave the kids for too long] and you want us to spend one of them faffing around going upstate?»

The Sony Xperia M4 Aqua is one of the first waterproof smartphones to offer exposed ports, meaning no faffing around removing a flap to reveal the Micro-USB charging port.

I was kind of faffing around with it.

There's no such faffing around this generation — the Xbox One automatically saves all games to the cloud if you're connected to Xbox Live, and you don't have to go out of your way to select the option.

Outside of the primary career mode you've got a couple of choices, starting with Instant Race which does exactly what it says on the tin, allowing you to jump straight into a race without faffing around too much.

I hope halo 6 is good halo 5 multiplayer really wasn't my thing and the story just felt like faffing around unlike gears 4 that felt like an actual story, maybe it's just me.

One of the things that I find the most impressive about the game is just how little book - keeping and faffing around there is to be done.

The rulebook handily contains premade deck lists for all five included investigators so you can jump right in with minimal faffing around, although you can only ever actually have two of them made at a time with the core set.

Rounding out of the package is the standard modes like time trial, quick race and championship in case you want to race a season with a bit less faffing around than the full career mode.

Geoff's solution is interesting but does involve a bit more faffing around versus having this one small device which would be idea for laptops, although having to plug it in at a wall socket does limit its portability somewhat.

Outside of that you can fire up a quick one on one match with the AI where you can indulge in some combat without all the faffing around with cities, but the main draw is delving into the skirmish mode, picking from an admittedly limited map selection and just playing.

I imagine most people would want this as a console of sorts, and in that regard both the PS4 and Xbox One are cheaper while also offering a level of graphical quality that is actually quite close to what the Alpha can deliver, without all the faffing around in settings.

A walk - in shower is much easier than faffing around, fighting with shower curtains that won't stay put.

Great that it was already paid on arrival so there was no faffing around.

But sacrilegious as it may sound, a +8.2 % YTD gain for the S&P 500 isn't all that extraordinary... Sure, it's within spitting distance of the market's average annual return, but that doesn't mean much — history confirms annual returns tend to rack up in just a few months, with the market faffing around for the rest of year.

I'm also happy to hear that Vellum is aimed at doing a limited number of things extremely well, rather than faffing around with gimmicks.

If we could avoid faffing around picking a template to base our new document on, that would be a big help.

But with all the faffing around over concepts, hinting at possible models, we'd like to suggest something — leave out the extra TT's and build us a Sport Quattro concept please Dr. Hackenberg?

This means one has to do a certain amount of faffing around with permits, but most of this was taken care of by the department before I got here; I was left with some queuing to do and the inevitable cash to hand over in return for my?

«We don't want any faffing around with any of the nonsense that the Government is coming up with in relation to alternatives to the customs union.

Major's former cabinet colleague Norman Fowler — now presiding over the upper chamber as Lord Speaker — recently warned in an interview with this magazine that the Lords could no longer justify its size, and must «stop faffing around» and significantly cut the number of peers.

My only thoughts on this one is the faffing around with matchsticks which is time consuming and if you're not precise with a knife your matchsticks may look like boulders as mine do!

I remember Wenger faffing around with Juan Mata to reduce his 17mill buyout clause, for ages, and then Chelsea putting their money where their mouth is, and of course buying him.

Why are you faffing around with so many words, everything you write comes back to one thing and one thing only — you want Wenger out, problem sorted.

The charge of «faffing around» is never far away, nor is the suggestion that if they want to be actual footballers, might they not be better off in midfield?

we are faffing around with the mustafi deal and thats all thats going on Giroud and the lazy Walcott will lead the line this season and we'll struggle to finish fourth or even fith, the club has become mediocre in its ambition and thinking and while we finished second last season we should have won.

I hope Wenger is not faffing around and then other clubs buy them.

So my mission (quite literally) was to plan out the easiest bread recipe that required no rising time, no kneading and no faffing around.

After lots of faffing around with «aquafaba» for royal icing recipes, I've settled on the much easier recipe from Free From Fairy which uses glycerine in place of the egg white (be aware many varieties of icing sugar have «may contain egg» warnings).

The only real downside to this meal is that there's a fair bit of faffing around to make all the various bits and pieces to go in the fajitas.

There is very little faffing around and the taste is quite delicious.

I've been thinking about this French Apple Tart ever since I saw Ina make it — I'm usually not a tart kind of person because lining a pastry tin is not my idea of fun, but this recipe is SO simple, there's no faffing around.

I would add some grated white chocolate to the pastry, some orange zest to the almond cream and most importantly of all I was going to make one large pie, not six individual pasties — I really just didn't have the time to faff around.

So good not to have to cut and paste and faff around!

It's been great not having to worry about getting pregnant or faff around with condoms or pills.

looking at life itself, you will observe we have so many choice of character to make, like me, despite i like sex, i do not faff around, most of my time, when i was married, i spend with my wife, she used to be everything and my travel mate... on my first time, i will like to be in a cool and serene plac...

If you faff around for more than 15 seconds the immobiliser activates.

Patiently I waited for the mandatory install to finish, and then rather impatiently faffed around as a 1.1 GB update was downloaded.

Instead you're free to faff around on the high seas, bully nearby Bretonnians, level up your heroes and play with a more cavalier attitude.

Playing With Myself is a new series where I faff around in a newly launched or Early Access game for under an hour, and you watch me do all of...

Originally released in 1993 for the Super Famicom, Romancing SaGa 2 does not faff around when it comes to turning what are - even back then, in the early «90s - well - worn JRPG tropes on their head.

As I am not the tidiest gamer in the world it is a relief to not have to faff around with cables while my 3DS slowly dies (along with, potentially, my current game progress).

You can faff around with the thermometer record, making the past cooler and the present warmer, but it will buy you nothing.

A city will do fine, as you'll not have to faff around with UHI corrections.

Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact EE # 75 upfront 1 GB data Unlimited mins and texts # 18 pm This tariff from Carphone Warehouse - owned e2save on EE is the lowest we're currently seeing on the XZ1 Compact without having to faff around with cashback.