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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 built the Scotland Outdoors podcast from the live program we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called Out of Tours.

And this week we're keeping the ladder theme going by speaking to a man who's devised a special type of ladder just for frogs.

Standing here in the car park in BBC Aberdeen, rowing trees out in blossom and we have just two little azalea bushes that are yellow.

So, yeah, nice enough. Okay.

Earlier this week I drove across to the west coast and as soon as you can start going down, lock Lomond's side and then get tarburt and then turn across and head down to our guile.

It is just a riot.

An absolute riot of colour.

Entire hills covered in bluebells.

Roddy Dendron are maybe 30, 40 feet high

and just bring that really intense

serice colour up against a blue sky.

All these reds and yellows and green, just phenomenal

range of colour, beautiful, beautiful. I'm Mark Stephen, I'm standing here in the car park,

the other side of the fire, but wondering what I'm going on about. Rachel Stewart.

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