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What a time to be alive. What a day, beautiful,

beautiful, Lauren.

Blue sky, it is quite crisp and fresh, but blue skies, the sun is out and more of our listeners

Gareth will know you as a West Wailian man but this is actually a second home in

some ways yes I used to live up here. I didn't know that.

Yeah, Estramanae, so we're in the Rumne Valley.

It's actually looking very autumnal and beautiful here, the sun shining down and the

urban trees on the right-hand side.

So if you kind of where we are,

an instrument not just by Astrid Hospital by the way.

Just over the brow is Penaheda and the old colliery

where Di Flanagan, head coach of the, the, the, head coach of Flanagan head coach of the...

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