Sentences with phrase «of faffing»

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.

And they'd sent me this email thing that said something about being an e-ticket and assigning me a seat number and I thought ooooh, how lovely and simple, none of that faffing on line to check - in stuff like you have to do with Jetstar, how clever of Virgin!

It isn't the simplest device to link to your Wi - Fi, requiring long passwords and a fair amount of faffing.

Lord knows why, because they're lucky to unlock the front doors by 9 am (followed by another 20 minutes of faffing while they get their scanners working).

But there was no time for that sort of faffing, though in retrospect it may have been faster and less fussy than the route I chose.

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?»

After a bit of faffing, I got there, so I thought I'd move on to the ducted heating that hasn't been working since last winter.

It might take a bit of faffing to get everything to pair first time around, but after that you should be good to go.

Gabro, if you don't want to put your theories to a test, there's no need for all of that faffing about.

I was kind of faffing around with it.

There's a bit of faffing about in the beginning as Tom and his merry crew find their sea legs, but things eventually pick up with a couple of rousing naval battles set against a shimmering sunset and an enchanting moonlit sky.

I made this to help AS photography students - so they have a simple, printable document that explains the descriptor and A0s - it might save you all 10 minutes of faffing, making it on PowerPoint - and is really useful to fix into their sketchbooks at the start of the exam: --RRB-

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?

With Alex I am determined to breastfeed for 12 months, obviously if he wants to stop then I will but to be able to feed him myself for a whole year and to switch straight to cows milk instead of faffing about making bottles of formula would be amazing.

Not a fan of faffing about inside our own half either — with all these short passes.

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.

I have been thinking of trying overnight oats for a while but it all seemed a bit of a faff... thank you for showing how easy this is!

Bit of a faff but makes nice digestible bread.

Usually when he requests something new for dinner I jump at the chance to get creating, but Thai Green Curry always seemed like a bit of a faff so I put it off again and again.

Mountain Biking can be a bit of a faff when you live in the city.

Running to get water every time you want to do a change is a bit of a faff and using a squirty bottle and a dry wipe just doesn't get your wipe wet enough to do a good job.

Whilst this method works quite well and allows you to choose from many more styles on the high street, it does mean doubling up on layers (which may be hot in the summer) and can be a bit of a faff with most of the top having a tendency to drop down and cover baby's head during the feed.

Wearing a sling also helps you keep your hands free to get on with things around the house, and make heading out and about less of a faff than taking a pushchair.

Wearing a sling will also keep your hands free to get on with things around the house, and make heading out and about less of a faff than taking a pushchair.

Eventually, Apple worked pretty hard to open the store up, and now iTunes tracks can, with a bit of a faff, be played on a multitude of devices.

Referring to different parts of the book, for example if there's a reference section or a map at the start is still too much of a faff - it's too easy to lose your place.

If you don't (or if you find setting up an account too much of a faff), you've two options — both generally still cheaper than calling an international number direct from your landline.

Getting you and your friends into Tomodachi Life is a bit of a faff in the first place.

I just think they're a bit of a faff.

Still, charging an extra battery is arguably even more of a faff than remembering to plug it in when you turn in.

The Neo has done away with the clamp that covers the watch face, which is good, but it's still a bit of a faff.

It's less fussy than the older Galaxy Gear arrangement was, but it's still a bit of a faff.

It's a good job that the battery life is impressive, because charging the watch is a bit of a faff.

We've been fermenting foods since the 1800s in order to make them last longer in the absence of fridges, but it's always been a bit of a faff.

Not exact matches

Faffing about at the smaller end of the market actually impeded our ability to buy larger mining services companies like Monadelphous (MND) and WorleyParsons (WOR) when they eventually got caught up in the pessimism.

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 haven't managed to get the hang of using my cast iron pan, it seems such a faff to have to oil it every time!

I am all for the no rolling, and it being free of, as you say in your adorable British tongue, «faffing».

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.

All the goodness, nutrition and fibre of pulses without the faff of pre-cooking soaking and rinsing.

Love it — I also COMPLETELY agree on the melting and general faff of using chocolate.

Very easy recipe to put together, the only faff was wrangling the cling film into the muffin tin, essential though or the tartlets would be difficult to get out of the tin, the cling film allows you to ease the product out safely!

I normally faff on and convert all the measurements to grams but have been out and bought myself a set of measuring cups.

Fortunately, once you get a bit closer, the general faff of a football match takes over, and the sense of approaching the Great Temple of God of Grouting recedes.

if a selection of our fans where allowed to manage these crop of players the gems wud be sold and the faff would remain and fans wud be reduced back to infighting as the club sank to * championship - level.

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?

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.

But this time in Year 1, which seems like actual school school, no playing (not literally — I think they still spend 90 % of the time faffing about with paint and cereal boxes).

and copious amounts of cotton wool (until I wised up to just using wipes) and also a bottle warmer #pointless — could have just stood the bottle in a jug of hot water, which I did mostly and it was a lot less faff than the bottle warmer!