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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thanks very much for downloading this.

I'm Mark Stephen.

We build the Scotland Outers

podcast out of the live program we do for BBC Radio Scotland and this week obviously in the

run-up to Burns Night we concentrated very much on our national poet Robert Burns.

Hello and a very good morning to you. I can see the stars this morning. It's one of those cold, crisp days. There's frost on the top of the cars and I can hear a Robin singing in the background there. I'm Mark Stephen. I'm coming to you live from the BBC Aberdeen Car Park and coming to you direct from Bonnie Bamsher, Mr Ewan McElwraith. Good morning where it is equally frosty. We shot out of the door this morning with the dog

at just before 5 o'clock and she shot across the courtyard and all four legs just going. It was

like a cartoon. Nothing was happening but yeah it's a beautiful, beautiful morning. If you're

out and about this morning, tell us what you're doing. Tell us what the weather's

like. Out of doors at BBC.co.uk or text 80295. Sam's taking your calls as well. He's on 08, 085,

92, 95, O. Coming up, we've got a distinct Robert Burns theme to today's proceedings.

We've got a Burns day coming up on Monday.

No real Burns suppers for any of us this year, but plenty of virtual ones around.

Are you having one?

Yeah, we're having one on Sunday night.

Charlie Bruce and Aber, he's made, he makes haggis every year, but he's made small ones for because you know we're all in groups of

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