Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?

Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,

and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked.

Good things come to those who don't wait.

Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.

The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

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

I'm Mark Stephen.

As you know, we build the Scotland Outdoors podcast

from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland

called Out of Doors.

And actually, there was a real mixed bag this week.

We did everything.

We had dolphins, we had the mystery bird, of course,

and a very unusual project involving farmers and artists.

Well, this is very pleasant.

I'm sitting here in front of the fire and there's actually light in the sky.

Half past six in the morning, friends, light in the sky.

Now, if you're tucked underneath the duvet, you don't know about this.

You maybe don't care.

You can hear my voice anyway and that's the important thing. I'm Mark Stephen. I'm sitting here in the car park in BBC Aberdeen. 40 miles to the north, doing something similar or imagine. Let's tell you and McElwrave. People lying in bed pulling their dove and tight over their heads. Just go away.

Trying to shove their pillows into their ears. Beautiful coral pink this morning

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