Mrs. Weasley was clattering around, cooking breakfast a little haphazardly, throwing dirty looks at her sons as she threw sausages into the frying pan.
OK, let's recap the vocabulary from this programme, starting with mucking about, an informal way to say playing with something carelessly, not for a serious reason.
For instance, if the host casually acknowledges that there is a camera in the room by telling a story about it, that may be enough to provide an opening for a guest to say if they are uncomfortable.
But it's when you have to chat casually about other things not related to work, when it gets tricky, when you start to feel stuck because you can't think of anything interesting or funny to say?
Idly creating resistance by pushing against counters or twisting carefully while opening the fridge during meal preparation is still exercise of a sort that loosens and relaxes.
" I felt like a prisoner, being held against my will away from my family, " Amoah told me, still incredulous at the treatment so carelessly meted out to him by British bureaucrats.
It didn't matter if people outside saw him, because he removed his mask before he left and walked out casually, like a customer who'd just stopped in to cash a check.
Mother was in the kitchen preparing a chicken for dinner and the younger boy and girl were in the bedroom drawing crude pictures of familiar barnyard animals on a shared slate.
And instead of sticking with the show until its natural ending, they got distracted by the promise of other projects which resulted in them carelessly rushing towards the end.