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Diane Jones was pottering around the house when she was sent a text message telling her to claim her £400 energy discount.

There were memories everywhere in the two-storey structure, she says: of eating lychees and pottering about with her sisters on the sun-soaked balcony; stealing books from her father's library; and then locking herself into the bathroom to cry when she was scolded for it.

Two years after we left her snooping around Moscow in “Homeland,” she has re-emerged in Victorian England, pottering about the coast in “The Essex Serpent” on Apple TV+.

"You've been pottering around for the last four thousand years just...gardening?"

Littner, 72, said he had been "pottering along" near his home in north London when the accident occurred.