Possible Clues:

• Seems one claims to have been in no hurry to be in the van
• I had been in charge but had done little about it (5)
• I'd acted as a guide, yet didn't do much work
• Paused in a car
• I had gone ahead and pottered
• I had shown the way? That's not worked
• Lazed on the grid?
• Hung out in the hammock
• Putzed around
• I had been top, but became lazy