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This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this. We do a couple of Scotland Outlaws podcasts every week. One of them is based on the live program we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called Out of Doors. This week we've got a bit of a La Haber theme. And actually this morning we're cooking up something a bit different on the fire pit.

You know, despite the fact that we're now into November,

there's still been some really beautiful days here up in the north-eastern.

It's been mild too.

And my wife and I were walking up the field the other day,

and I thought, I've seen this somewhere.

I've seen this written somewhere.

And I've found it.

It's Nan Shepardard it was a day so filled

with light that the stubble shone and in the sun saturated atmosphere floated gossamers

thistle down and the seeds of willow herb area than snowflakes more delicate than moths

as though light had flaked itself off in filament and frond and brushed their cheeks.

I would love to be all the right as well as that. Good morning. I'm Mark Stephen. Sit on the other side of the

farm. Rachel Stewart. What a lovely start to the program, Mark. That's very nice. And a stark contrast to the, is it, the

anti-cyclonic gloom that people in England are complaining

about just now. I think there's been

an hour of sunlight in some places

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