Sentences with phrase «of faffing around»

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.

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?»

I was kind of faffing around with it.

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?

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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...

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

While the weekends allow time to faff around grinding espresso beans, during the week we need our cappuccino a bit faster Taking the time and mess out of brewing an espresso with a silky smooth crema, the best pod coffee machines deliver a barista - worthy cuppa every time.