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.

This Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio

Scotland.

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

As you know, we build the Scotland Outdoors podcast from the live program we do for BBC Radio Scotland,

which is called Out of Doors.

And because it's Christmas, it's all about the stars in the sky.

You know, it may be that you're a regular listener, in which case help is available.

But last week, we were talking about the fact that my esteemed colleague had put our washing

out, whatever it was, quarter past four in the morning, something like that.

She wouldn't have been doing it this morning?

Because it's snowy.

It's that sort of sleety, snowy, you know, type thing.

It's not particularly cold, but by gum it fairly puts you off. I'm Mark Steven, sitting here, cowering underneath the portico in Beach Grove, Aberdeen, Rachel Stewart.

Yeah, I didn't put my washing out this morning.

You'd be pleased to know.

It'd be silly.

But I have to say it's very festive where I live this morning.

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