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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

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

you by BBC Radio Scotland. I'm Mark Stephen.

Coming to you for today from my back garden, which, to be honest, is a bit grey and overcast. I know it's July, but this is Scotland.

So I suppose one blessing is not either raining or snowing. And the wind has died. For the last three days, we've had really gale force winds,

and it is curiously knackering when you're outside trying to work in it.

Over the last three months or so, as a team,

we have been really enjoying putting these podcasts together,

connecting with all sorts of people around the world.

Now, I'm genuinely very excited this week to be connecting to a highly experienced radio producer

and sound artists in Australia.

But before we introduce him properly, a quick word from my companion in this edition of the

podcast, Helen Needham.

Hello, well, I'm sitting in my home office a few miles away from you in Aberdeenshire.

I'm looking out the window and it's actually joyful that everything is still.

I felt a bit battered by the wind lately.

Actually, because I live in an old creaky farmhouse, being up here,

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