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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thanks very much for downloading this podcast.

I'm Mark Stephen.

Coming to you today from my living room in rural Aberdeenshire

because outside is absolutely filthy today.

So the Gale Force winds and just those sheets of rain

that keep on coming across all the time

and have been for about the last 12 hours.

It's rotten.

A few miles to the south, Helen Needham.

I've got my blanket over my knees,

my sheepskin slippers on.

It's just the kind of day where you think,

I'll just sit by the fire and dream, dream of summer, of nicer days, of all these things.

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