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Hello and thank you for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

I'm Ian McElraith.

With me is Helen Needham.

And later on the programme, we'll be looking at spiders.

They're very apparent at this time.

Save of the moment.

I think so.

Enjoy them.

They're not going to do any harm.

And we really need to look after them. Well, that's the joy of living in Scotland because they do bite, but they're pretty

harmless. Yeah, I think this came as a result of a discussion that we were having in the

office about the prevalence of spiders in our houses

at this time of year

if you go into our Facebook page you'll see some photographs I took

where the whole of the field is covered in Gossamer

just incredible

which actually provoked a question within my family

whether or not the spiders are there all the time

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