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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

I'm Mark Stephen.

As you probably know,

we build the Scotland Outdoors podcast from the live program we do for BBC Radio Scotland. Now,

we're into a new year now, 2022, but we're still living in the north-east of Scotland with the

aftermath of Storm Arwen, so quite a few of the items in this week's podcast. Refer back to that.

Hello, a very good morning and a happy new year to.

You find me discomforted, friends.

I'm sitting here in the car park,

discomforted, watching the sparks fly away into the night

because round the corner, I'm not sure what it is,

I think it's something to do with Aberdeen Hospital,

Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

They're building something, but they covered it in red lights, and I haven't noticed it before.

So I went round the corner and went, whoa, it's like opening your bedroom curtains

and suddenly finding yourself in an addition of Blade Runner.

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