gad

Not exactly the boys of 1888, those 22 Lions pioneers who spent eight months gadding about New Zealand and Australia playing 35 games, but a fair old trip none the less.

The humor doesn’t so much pop as gad about.

“Hold your tongue, you disrespectful old bird! And, Jo, you’d better go at once. It isn’t proper to be gadding about so late with a rattlepated boy like...”

The Americas with Simon Reeve is an amiable travelogue in which a dishy documentarian gads about the US.

But with the big night in sight there's no more time for gadding about.