Wiktionary
pottering around
vb. (present participle of potter around English)
Usage examples of "pottering around".
He was probably pottering around in the kitchen by now and longing for his breakfast.
A couple of months pottering around hermitlike in this much natural beauty was bound to have a detrimental effect on one’.
Sooner or later you end up with a life stretch and pretty soon you're a cuckoo old man pottering around the prison yard.
While you've been pottering around the mountains he's been righting in France and Belgium and North Africa and the Aegean and usually on assignments so dangerous that you couldn't even begin to wonder what they were like.