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Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

I'm Mark Stephen.

Because of the sheer quantity of calls that we're getting in at the moment and text messages

and emails and everything else and folk posting stuff up on Facebook.

What we're doing at the moment is basically just giving you the live program that we do for BBC Radio Scotland,

which is called Out of Doors.

And this is what we got up to this week.

You're listening to Out of Doors on BBC Radio Scotland. Hello and a very good day to you

I'm Mark Stephen

This is BBC Out of Doors

Might think it's a strange kind of day

Strange kind of weather to put the fire on

But it's really bonny

The sunlight shunting you

Just coming low down through the trees

And it's picking up this blue wood smoke And the whole lot is just swirling almost at slow motion really pretty joining me this morning as ever mr eun mackle rath yeah it's a gorgeous day it's still a bit chilly at this time of the morning but it's going to be a real scorch it was up to 28 degrees in my part of the world yesterday, which was almost bordering on,

it's too hot! It's just lovely. We're always keen to hear what you're doing,

especially now that things have changed a wee bit, and what are you going to be doing this weekend that perhaps you couldn't do before? You can email out of doors at pbc.c.c.uk.

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