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This Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio

Scotland.

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.

I'm Mark Stephen.

She's Rachel Stewart.

We build the Scotland Outdoor podcast from the live program we do for BBC Radio Scotland,

which is called Out of Doors.

And this week we're all about the art.

We have had some cracking weather this week.

I mean, total blue sky days, brilliant sunshine.

Not desperately warm, you know, sort of mid-teens thereabouts, but just lovely.

And there was one stage this week when I was basically, I'm cycling towards Ellen

on the old Bucking and for Martin railway line, passed some trees, and a row buck ran parallel with me for about 150 metres.

It was just, I can still see it in my mind's eye. It was wonderful.

I'm Mark Steven, I'm standing here in the Beechkiff Car Park in Aberdeen.

The other side of the fire, Rachel Stewart.

Are you trying to pretend that you can keep up with a deer?

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