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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gill Osborne" data-source="post: 1232093" data-attributes="member: 143965">I've been called a twitcher lord knows how many times but it just goes over my head now :-O  My workmates have come to realise that I'm different from then....ie I don't drink (or hardly ever - I have four 25cl bottles of weightwatchers wine in the fridge and THAT will probably last me for the rest of 2008 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />) whereas THEY are in the pub at lunchtime and the minute they finish work.  I spend every spare minute I can outdoors whatever the weather and see SO much - they hate the british summer and say it's too cold :eek!:  but most of all....I'm NEVER bored! :t:    I've just gotten back from a walk over the Pastures in front of Alnwick Castle and have watched a grey heron hunting, moorhen feeding their young, trout jumping for flies, listened to a blackcap singing, seen a dipper and a common sandpiper flying upstream AND watched seven guinea fowl feeding in the opposite field :t:</blockquote>