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This Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Helen Needham from BBC Radio

Scotland.

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

I'm Mark Stephen.

She's Helen Needham.

As you probably know, we build the Scotland outdoors podcast from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called Out of Doors.

And this week we were talking about wheels of one sort and another.

Yesterday, my wife and I were in Ellen in Aberdeenshire down beside the river and standing underneath a cherry tree in full blossom and I swear it was like standing in front of a static firework.

Just, you know, there was so much pink just above us. It was a beautiful, beautiful sight. Spring is knocking on the door. A very good morning

from the Beechgrove Car Park. I'm Mark Stephen. Standing alongside me at the fire this morning,

Helen Needham. Hello, good morning. Well, I'm feeling full of spring as well because I was up in the

northwest in Torridon this week and it was just glorious. I felt like it was the first time I'd

seen the sun for weeks

because I feel like we've been living under a cloud for a very long time. So finally, finally,

I think we're there. Well, you can live in hope. You can live in. Certainly there's lots of stuff

coming out at the moment and there's a bird in my vicinity which is really bugging me because I keep on hearing

it and I don't know what it is. I feel like we've been through this before sometime. Almost without

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