Pootle was a character from the 1980’s children’s television programme, The Flumps.
Pootle was a character who didn’t wear any shoes and used to wiggle his toes a lot. As a child I used to sit and wiggle my toes at the same time. It is also a colloquial term for moving around, I could not sit still as a child, actually I can’t sit still for long now, that’ll be the ADHD.
The nickname has stuck into my adulthood, hence Pootles Ponderings. If people use my real name, Kayleigh, I think I’ve done something wrong.