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   <description>The Lobey Dosser Tribute Blog is my light-hearted but detailed journal keeping you up to date with all the juice on Glasgow and my Top Ten Glasgow Guide.</description>
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   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:09:20 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>A new dawn is upon us</title>
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    <description>In the days Michael Jackson A.D., it took a great deal of denial to get the new show of the podcast up and running, but you&#39;ll be absolutely ecstatic I&#39;m sure to note that we managed to do it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The new episode of &lt;i&gt;For the Love of G...lasgow&lt;/i&gt; is now online, and thanks to everyone for listening to it regularly enough to ensure its place as a featured comedy podcast in iTunes. Enjoy...</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:43:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>R.I.P. Michael</title>
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    <description>I&#39;m truly gutted. Here&#39;s a link to my thoughts on Michael Jackson.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:39:10 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>It&#39;s Officially Summertime</title>
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    <description>It really is. I mean, look at the weather and everything.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So to ruin all the good feeling being generated all around the world as the sun brightens the day, we&#39;ve come back into your lives again with a new episode of the podcast.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There&#39;s some really interesting stuff in this one that you won&#39;t want to miss. If you do miss it though, feel free not to worry about it, as we&#39;ll be back with more in our 20th episode soon enough...</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:39:53 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Take the candle from the window...</title>
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    <description>I&#39;m back. I&#39;ve been away touring California and Nevada for a while and have returned to some superb Glasgow sunshine - two sumptously drunken BBQs already since I landed.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So it&#39;s back to the grind and I&#39;m looking forward to getting up to speed with the site again and recording some new nonsense on the podcast. It&#39;s always pretty daunting (albeit pleasing) to note that in your absence on vacation your site&#39;s been visited more times than ever before and your podcast listener numbers have trebled, as it makes you wonder whether people prefer it when you&#39;re away...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;...I&#39;m sure that&#39;s not the case though (eh? eh?), so check back here soon for some exciting movement on the site.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#39;m off to enjoy what&#39;s bound to be the last few hours of Glasgow&#39;s summertime.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:26:33 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>We&#39;re all going on a...</title>
    <link>http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/glasgow-blog.html#We&#39;re-all-going-on-a...</link>
    <description>...long-awaited vacation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Our last attempt ended in our flight company going bust and our car taking a swim in Loch Lomond, so hopefully this attempt at a holiday turns out slightly better (although given that we&#39;re heading near Mexico I&#39;ll reserve my judgement on that until we come back and pass the medical).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So we&#39;re off until the start of June, and that means that I&#39;ll be de-plugging completely - no blogs, no work on the site, no answering emails, no tweets, no mindlessly checking of statistics and messages, no &lt;i&gt;anything&lt;/i&gt; if it involves a computer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In other words, pure bliss.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When I come back I&#39;m hoping to be invigorated enough to start a new blazing trial of excitement on the site, a complete restaurant section, a complete travelling around Glasgow section, and a complete Glasgow Cathedral Precinct section to start things off again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Given that I&#39;ve only been working on them for about 20 years, I&#39;m sure you&#39;ll know that I&#39;ll deliver eventually on that promise...</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 08:11:14 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Our last before the break</title>
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    <description>I&#39;ll be off on vacation pretty soon, so this latest episode of our &lt;i&gt;For the Love of G...lasgow&lt;/i&gt; podcast is the last for a wee while.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We hope to be back with a new show at some point in mid-June, and will let you know in advance when to expect it (I&#39;m sure you&#39;ll be holding your breath in anticipation...).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Needless to say though, we&#39;ve left you with what may be our most enjoyable show to date, although our opinion of that may be tainted by our state of ecstasy when we recorded the whole thing in time to watch the Man Utd v Arsenal game...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;See you soon, and remember to email our new address at &lt;i&gt;fortheloveofglasgowpodcast@googlemail.com&lt;/i&gt; with any questions, jokes, stories, comments, pictures, videos and anything you like that we can yap about next time around.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 08:48:59 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Following me on Twitter</title>
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    <description>I&#39;ve received a few emails telling me that you can&#39;t find me on Twitter, so this is just a quickie to let you know that I&#39;m not under my normal name there (it was taken when I joined up).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To follow me on Twitter, just click the link here or you can find the link on the podcast and &#39;about me&#39; pages, and you&#39;ll see that my username is @scottybhoy.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks for following and I hope to keep you entertained during an otherwise boring day...</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:55:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>A quiet month saved</title>
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    <description>Yes, despite the swift movement that characterised March, April&#39;s been another slow month on the site, due mainly I&#39;m afraid to the great deal of work I&#39;ve had during my 9 to 5 this month (since when was &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; a priority?).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But thankfully the podcast has saved me again by filling up the month with a bit more comedy. The new episode&#39;s now available to download and I hope you enjoy it.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:40:32 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Happy Egg Rolling and Chocolate Weekend</title>
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    <description>Oh, and I think it&#39;s Easter this weekend as well.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Alan and I yap about this in our latest episode of the &lt;i&gt;For the Love of G...lasgow&lt;/i&gt; comedy podcast which is available to download for free now.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There&#39;s also a great swathe of nonsense about other things in the news - after listening to this, why would you ever need to watch TV news again?...</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:20:07 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Out of hiding - Glasgow Cathedral Precinct</title>
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    <description>I&#39;ve not actually completed the section on it yet, but it&#39;s come to my attention that at this point, if you type the words &#39;glasgow cathedral precinct&#39; into Google, my new page on it is already at number 2 in the search results.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Who knows how that&#39;s happened, but now that the cat&#39;s out the bag, here&#39;s the link to the page. I&#39;m still not finished the whole thing yet, so I&#39;d love to hear whether you think my rant about sectarianism in Glasgow is a bit too heavy, or otherwise if you think it&#39;s fine.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I hope to complete the whole section soon and will of course let you know.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:03:15 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Progress. What did I tell you?</title>
    <link>http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/glasgow-tour.html</link>
    <description>&lt;img SRC=&quot;http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/images/eilean-donan-castle.jpg&quot; height=&quot;150&quot;width=&quot;200&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; hspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;Eilean Donan Castle&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;March 2009 is turning out to be one of the most productive months I&#39;ve had on the site for quite some time.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#39;ve just polished off a new page in the travelling around Glasgow section. Only one more to go before it&#39;s complete...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This one&#39;s about booking a more personalised Glasgow tour, and introduces you to, for me, the best company in Glasgow for that. Booking a bespoke tour of Glasgow and also of Scotland beyond will give you more out of our Country than doing it any other way.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You&#39;re escorted around the place in comfort, based on your own needs and desires, and doing it this way will make it more likely that your memories will end up a little more special.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:40:25 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>More sounds for your ears</title>
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    <description>Episode 15 of our &lt;i&gt;For the Love of G...lasgow&lt;/i&gt; Comedy Podcast is now available for free download. Just click the link here to have a listen.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you&#39;ve never listened to a podcast, whether it&#39;s this one or any other one out there, why not try it out for size at least once? You might end up laughing your socks off.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Although, that&#39;s not a guarantee...</description>
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    <title>&lt;i&gt;zarra&lt;/i&gt;FAC is ready for you</title>
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    <description>It&#39;s taken a while, let&#39;s just say a couple of years, but I&#39;ve finally got my finger out and created the sign-up page for the new &lt;i&gt;zarra&lt;/i&gt;FAC ezine.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Click the link here and you can join the ranks for free - get access to the &lt;i&gt;real&lt;/i&gt; Glasgow...</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:59:38 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Premier Inn Charing Cross Glasgow</title>
    <link>http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/premier-inn-charing-cross.html</link>
    <description>&lt;img SRC=&quot;http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/images/premier-inn-charing-cross-glasgow.jpg&quot; height=&quot;150&quot;width=&quot;200&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; hspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;The Premier inn Charing Cross Glasgow&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;So what sets the Premier Inn Charing Cross Glasgow Hotel apart from the rest?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It does exactly as it says on the tin - great location, standard cleanliness and customer service across the board, good night&#39;s rest, reasonably-priced restaurant - I&#39;ve never had a second thought about booking a Premier Inn, and after staying here I hope you agree.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Just make sure Lenny Henry&#39;s not in the next room...</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:53:14 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>How about the Jurys Inn Glasgow?</title>
    <link>http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/jurys-inn-glasgow.html</link>
    <description>&lt;img SRC=&quot;http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/images/jurys-inn-glasgow.jpg&quot; height=&quot;150&quot;width=&quot;200&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; hspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;Visit the Jurys Inn Glasgow Hotel&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;This is a &lt;i&gt;massive&lt;/i&gt; slice of cool in the City Centre of Glasgow.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You can always rely on a Jury&#39;s being where you want it and how you want it, and the Jurys Inn Glasgow on Jamaica Street is no exception to the rule.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Take a look around the place using the link here, and from all the reviews about the hotel you&#39;ll see here, you&#39;ll soon understand why it makes it very easily onto my Top Ten list of the best hotels in Glasgow.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:48:20 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Thistle Glasgow Hotel</title>
    <link>http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/thistle-glasgow.html</link>
    <description>&lt;img SRC=&quot;http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/images/thistle-glasgow-hotel.jpg&quot; height=&quot;150&quot;width=&quot;200&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; hspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;Stay at the Thistle Glasgow Hotel&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;Now that the hotel section is up and running, how&#39;s about filling it up with some decent places to stay?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#39;ve completed a wee introductory page on the Thistle Glasgow Hotel, which is a long-standing favourite in the City - perfect location for Sauchiehall Street, Buchanan Street and even ideal for spotting local celebrities (and not just me, that is. Ahem...).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Enjoy your stay at Thistle, and feel free to send me your comments if you do.</description>
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    <title>New Hotel Glasgow Section</title>
    <link>http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/hotel-glasgow.html</link>
    <description>&lt;img SRC=&quot;http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/images/thistle-glasgow-hotel.jpg&quot; height=&quot;200&quot;width=&quot;250&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; hspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;Search the best hotels in Glasgow&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;As promised, here&#39;s a wee section on booking the best hotels in Glasgow.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#39;ve done a whack of research into the favourite Glasgow hotels based on number of bookings, reviews, facilities and so on, so hopefully you&#39;ll have plenty of choice to suit your stay in the City.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But hey, it&#39;s not all about me. If you don&#39;t agree with my selection of the Top Ten hotels in Glasgow, I&#39;ve also included a handy wee search form which will search &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; the top places to stay in Glasgow. Anything else, as always just let me know.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:40:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Now that was a task and a half</title>
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    <description>I&#39;ve just finished a complete overhaul of the site.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You won&#39;t really see any benefits to be honest because it was all in the background, although if you use Google Chrome or other newer browsers (including the fresh-out-the-box Internet Explorer 8 which I downloaded today) you might see now that the headline of each page no longer consumes more space than a big scary monster-type thing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for progress you can see, and we all know that seeing is believing - or was it the other way around - it&#39;s coming. That&#39;s all I can say for now. Completed restaurants section, completed travel around Glasgow section, completed Glasgow Cathedral Precinct section, completed hotel Glasgow section.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No sweat - we&#39;ll get there in no time...</description>
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    <title>Red Nose Day - that&#39;s a relief</title>
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    <description>The new podcast is now available to download, and I hope you enjoy it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There&#39;s stuff in there about Comic Relief 2009, and if you manage to push past all of Alan&#39;s anti-charity tirades, don&#39;t forget to donate on rednoseday.com or by texting CLIMB to 88808 if you&#39;re in the UK.</description>
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    <title>Rollin&#39; and rollin&#39;...</title>
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    <description>Yes, it might appear once again that the wheels have slowed on the site, and you&#39;d be correct in saying that.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Click the link for the new episode of our comedy podcast &lt;i&gt;For the Love of G...lasgow&lt;/i&gt; which is becoming more popular with each instalment (who knows why?), and you&#39;ll see what&#39;s been taking up my time recently.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Still working on the hotel section which should be completed soon, and like the nimble-fingered multi-tasking masters of old, I&#39;m also in the process of completing the section on the Glasgow Cathedral Precinct, in which I appear to have let my innermost thoughts out on the issue of sectarianism in Glasgow (it&#39;ll all make sense when you read it).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So thanks again for making this one of the most popular travel websites on my home town, and I promise to repay your continued support by getting the finger out of my proverbial.</description>
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    <title>Apologies, Massacres and Oscars</title>
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    <description>Well, putting the last sorry episode behind us, we&#39;ve pulled out of the bag once again an unedited masterpiece.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;OK, so I suppose as usual you&#39;ll have to judge for yourself whether it&#39;s up to standard, but either way feel free to download the latest episode of the podcast and let us know what you think.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And remember, we&#39;re now up and running with Skpye, so please give us a call and leave a message we can play on the show next time.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks again for listening...</description>
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    <title>That old &#39;hit or miss&#39; feeling</title>
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    <description>Well, the new episode of the podcast is up and ready to be injected into your happy little ears.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sorry about that though, because you&#39;ll quickly find that it isn&#39;t long but will ruin your day completely.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the plus side, I&#39;m in the middle of completing a full hotel section (where did &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; come from?) and will let you know once it&#39;s up and running - it&#39;ll include a list of the top ten hotels in Glasgow, and also a search function to allow you to browse the best in the City.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Cheers for now.</description>
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    <title>Second is always best</title>
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    <description>We tried it the first time, my computer said no. So we tried it a second time, and hopefully you&#39;ll agree that we&#39;ve come up with our bestest podcast show to date.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A great start to 2009 - download it into your ears and your brain and have a laugh to start off your year.</description>
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    <description>Well &lt;i&gt;there&lt;/i&gt; was a festive break and a half.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I hope you enjoyed a great last few weeks. Other than some time in a Guinness-soaked Galway, I spent most of my time in hospital over Christmas, my Goddaughter having been born on Christmas Day.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;An absolutely &lt;i&gt;outstanding&lt;/i&gt; end to the year, albeit a little tiring.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So the door opens on 2009 and I&#39;m raring to go now. Hopefully soon you&#39;ll see some movement on the site as I gear up to completing what I started, and as always, if you have any suggestions, comments or questions, fire over to the contact form and keep in touch.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Have a happy and successful year on me...</description>
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    <title>State of the Bunion 2008</title>
    <link>http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/glasgow-blog.html#State-of-the-Bunion-2008</link>
    <description>&lt;img SRC=&quot;http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/images/state-of-the-bunion.jpg&quot; height=&quot;125&quot;width=&quot;125&quot; alt=&quot;State of the Bunion&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;I started this bunion thing last year, and since then I can&#39;t say the pussing and the pain has eased to any significant extent.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the site over the year you&#39;ll have seen the addition of a few paltry pages in the sections on getting around, restaurants and attractions. You&#39;ll have read my new guff about ra Glesca Patter and seen lots of new social bookmarking experiments dot themselves here and there on the site. As a result of all this heaving and hollering therefore, I&#39;ve been pulling in thousands of visitors a month, about triple the amount a day more than last year, so I count myself pretty satisfied with the way things have been going.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You&#39;ll also have witnessed the birth of our little &lt;i&gt;For the Love of G...lasgow&lt;/i&gt; podcast, a venture which has taken up pretty much all of my spare time since August, but thankfully has made all the effort worthwhile in terms of the whack of listeners who&#39;ve been increasingly interested in what we&#39;ve had to say each fortnight (they must be &lt;i&gt;mad&lt;/i&gt;...).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the year outwith the site, have a look at the podcast blog for a good cop / bad cop top ten roundup.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So this is me signing off for 2008. I might squeeze in another episode of the podcast before the year&#39;s out, but for now I&#39;d like to wish you all the very best over the festive break and have an even better 2009. When we come back after the break, my intention is to organise my time more so that I&#39;ll be able to start writing on the site for at least a few hours a week, and as a result, if by the end of the year the getting around, restaurants and attractions sections &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; remain incomplete, I&#39;ll have no option but to strip myself of all my clothes and run starkers down Buchanan Street on a Saturday afternoon.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;(without prejudice to my right &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; to do that, of course...)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yours aye,</description>
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    <description>I think my little Top Ten Glasgow Guide has taken the huff with me.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It might be beceause I&#39;ve neglected it in the last few months in favour of the sparkly new podcast - no-one likes to be replaced I suppose. Or maybe it&#39;s just tired after a hectic year and, like me, is yearning for the Christmas break.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Either way, you might have noticed a few glitches appearing on the site recently. The Navbar on the left of each page seems to be shifting up and down, the space between images and their surrounding words has disappeared, Google adverts have been turning themselves off without any notice, and bookmark buttons have been jumping all over the place.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#39;m in the middle of sorting all this and hope to get everything the way it should be at some point soon. Apologies for any disruption in your enjoyment of the site in the meantime.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#39;ll be signing off soon with my usual State of the Bunion for this year, and hope that if the site&#39;s still talking to me in the New Year we&#39;ll put this minor episode behind us and get back to building the site at a healthier rate than before.</description>
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    <title>Here we go again...</title>
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    <description>It&#39;s that time again - the new episode of the podcast is ready and waiting to fill up your ears with comedy and hope in this wonderful festive season.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Remember you can download it from the site, on iTunes, the blog, and also now at our Facebook Group and MySpace page which you can feel free to join.</description>
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    <description>You can now download the most recent episode of the podcast, our seventh in the series would you believe it, by visiting the podcast page on the site or via iTunes or the blog and so on.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the meantime, I&#39;d like to extend my deepest, darkest apologies for the neglect of new content on the Top Ten Glasgow Guide for a little while.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You might have noticed recently a bit of testing going on, with social bookmarks popping up all over the place, and a few Google adverts just to help me keep on track to ensure the site stays live and kicking. I&#39;ll be continuing this kind of testing for a while, all in the hope of getting the site &#39;out there&#39; a wee bit more and to make sure the community of interest it seems to be generating continues to grow.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for content though, as you might have heard a few shows back in the podcast, I recently visited Glasgow Cathedral Precinct, and I&#39;m now working on a little section about that which will appear in the attractions bit soon. I will of course let you know once it&#39;s up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So thanks for the interest in my wee site and feel free to let me know what else you&#39;d like to see on it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yours aye.</description>
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    <description>It&#39;s taken a few tries, but we&#39;ve finally got our act together and you can now download the Sixth episode of the podcast.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Feel free to dive over to Facebook using the link provided in the show notes, and join as a member of our new Group there.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Either way, hope you enjoy our new instalment, and look out soon for an extra bonus we hope to do when our mate Jim returns next week from sunny Afghanistan for a short break.</description>
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    <description>The brand new episode of our little &lt;i&gt;For the Love of G...lasgow&lt;/i&gt; Podcast is now available to download for free.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Click the link and amongst other things learn all about Santa at Hampden Park, how after a visit by me to the Soccer Circus at XScape Glasgow Kevin Keegan decided to go back into football management, and what the upcoming Indiana Bones movie will be about.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As always, you can download it on the site, or on the blog, or at iTunes and all the other podcast directories automatically.</description>
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    <description>The fourth episode of our podcast &lt;i&gt;For the Love of G...lasgow&lt;/i&gt; is now available to download for free.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You can get it by visiting the link here to the podcast section on the site, but can also get it straight from iTunes or at our blog, the links for which are on the podcast page as usual.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Please let us know what you think by using the Comments box as before.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yours aye...</description>
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    <description>&lt;img SRC =&quot;http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/images/drowned-and-the-damage-done.jpg&quot; height=&quot;190&quot;width=&quot;220&quot; alt=&quot;Our Glasgow Holiday of 2008&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;Well, are you ready for a laugh?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#39;m back from my vacation, and am happy to share with you the top ten reasons why it&#39;s a Glasgow holiday we&#39;ll never forget, including how our planned vacation to Portugal got cancelled and our car drove itself into Loch Lomond.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I promise you the photos on the page linked to from here are absolutely &lt;i&gt;unique&lt;/i&gt;...</description>
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    <description>Just to let you know that I&#39;m &lt;i&gt;totally&lt;/i&gt; de-plugging for the next few weeks while I&#39;m away on my holiday.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;That means no blogging, no podcasting, no replies to your emails and no additions to the site for a wee while.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Please feel free to keep listening to the podcast though, and to send in your comments, ideas, stories and jokes so we can maintain the &lt;i&gt;cast-iron&lt;/i&gt; quality comedy when we record our fourth episode when I get back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ahem...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Anywho, see you soon and thanks again for all your interest in the site.</description>
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    <description>&lt;img SRC =&quot;http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/images/scotts-pants-glasgow.jpg&quot; height=&quot;200&quot;width=&quot;220&quot; alt=&quot;Scotts Pants&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;The third episode of our podcast &lt;i&gt;For the Love of G...lasgow&lt;/i&gt; is now available to download for free.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You can get it by visiting the link here to the podcast section on the site, but can also get it straight from iTunes or at our blog, the links for which are on the podcast page as usual.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Please let us know what you think by using the Comments box as before, and we hope you enjoy listening to our much-improved verbal wanderings.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As we mention on this week&#39;s podcast, I&#39;ll be away on holiday for a few weeks so we&#39;re taking a little break. I&#39;ll let you know when the next one will be available.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Good listening listeners...</description>
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    <description>&lt;img SRC =&quot;http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/images/under-your-covers.jpg&quot; height=&quot;250&quot;width=&quot;150&quot; alt=&quot;Under Your Covers Merchant City Festival&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;It&#39;s that time of year again, the Merchant City Festival between 25th and 28th September, and at the moment I&#39;m looking to work out how many events I can fit into the few days it&#39;s on.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;One that&#39;s sparked my attention is &lt;i&gt;Under Your Covers&lt;/i&gt;, the first ever Writers&#39; Conference, which is being held in association with ONE Magazine.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;OK, so on the face of it that might not sound quite as exciting as you might think, but events like this are a great unexpected addition to the &lt;i&gt;explosive&lt;/i&gt; combination of theatre, visual arts, comedy, film, dance and music the organisers lay out for you on and around the cosmopolitan streets of one of the most fashionable areas in Glasgow.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Under Your Covers&lt;/i&gt; will be on 27th September from 12noon to 5pm, and will involve open forums, open mic readings, panel discussions, new titles, and some special guests which I can only imagine will be, well, famous writers...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;One of the best things about this little event however, has to be that it&#39;s being held in my favourite place in the Merchant City, &lt;i&gt;Arta&lt;/i&gt;, so that alone will ensure that I&#39;ll try my damndest to pop along.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Check out the link for more info, and let me know if you head along to it or any of the other events being held during the festival.</description>
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    <description>OK OK, so I spoke too soon there.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The podcast is already available at the official blog. I&#39;m pretty sure my feed&#39;s been updated (I like to keep it fed, ahem), so it should also be available to download directly from iTunes and so on.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#39;d thought that because the first episode took so long to be available everywhere else I&#39;d have the same difficulty with this one, but hey, what do I know?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Enjoy listening to it, well, as much as you can anyway...</description>
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    <description>The Second: &quot;Glasgay&quot;. In this, the second episode of &lt;i&gt;For the Love of G...lasgow&lt;/i&gt;, the official podcast of the Top Ten Glasgow Guide, we provide you with a slightly shorter, partial improvement on our last effort. It takes a while for us to get up to speed, then we ramble &#39;hilariously&#39; on about the end of the Olympics, London 2012 and our united football team, the wacky intuition of our firemen and police force, why you&#39;ll enjoy Glasgow in the coming weeks if you&#39;re a gay sectarian geek, Alan&#39;s eBay success and his mysterious popularity with unknown ladies, and we also discuss folks who write or open messages in bottles. It really is a &#39;must listen&#39; this time. Honestly!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#39;m sure our &#39;listener&#39; will be glad to know that it&#39;s now available for free download in the podcast section of the website. Just to make things clear though, from now on, because we&#39;re too cheap to spend money on a decent speedy host for the podcast, unfortunately each new episode will not be available on the official blog at fortheloveofglasgow.blogspot.com, or at iTunes or any of the podcast directories, until a couple of days after we&#39;ve uploaded it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;However, you&#39;ll be ecstatic to know that the new episode will always be available first right here on the Top Ten Glasgow Guide. What can I say? I like to reward loyalty.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And remember, if you ever miss an episode, check out the Archives link in the podcast section of the site where you can download every old episode.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#39;ll let you know once the new one&#39;s available elsewhere.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Good listening...</description>
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    <description>&lt;img SRC =&quot;http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/images/the-boys-at-khublai-khans.jpg&quot; height=&quot;180&quot;width=&quot;220&quot; alt=&quot;The boys at Khublai Khan&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;Well it&#39;s taken some time, but I&#39;ve finally pulled out all the stops and done something on the site other than the podcast.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here&#39;s a wee page on one of the top restaurants in Glasgow, Khublai Khan&#39;s Mongolian Barbeque in the Merchant City.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Learn all about why dining at this place is an experience unlike any other restaurant in the City, and why you&#39;ll be yearning to come back for more again and again...</description>
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    <description>We&#39;re getting there, in fits and starts maybe, but we&#39;re definitely getting there.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The podcast has now been accepted into iTunes, so you can search for and subscribe to it directly from there if you&#39;d prefer.&lt;Br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;As before, please feel free to give us a five star review and subscribe to the podcast so that we start moving higher up the charts.&lt;br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;Hopefully the next episode recorded next week will continue the magic which no doubt &lt;i&gt;dazzled&lt;/i&gt; you in the first one...(ahem).</description>
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    <description>&lt;img SRC =&quot;http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/images/jim-in-helman-province.jpg&quot; height=&quot;180&quot;width=&quot;220&quot; alt=&quot;Jim in the Helman Province&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;The First: &quot;Apologies&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In this, the first episode of &lt;i&gt;For the Love of G...lasgow&lt;/i&gt;, the official podcast of the Top Ten Glasgow Guide, we discuss amongst other things, pandas, the best and worst of the Olympics, the tragedy of life in Glasgow, our mate Jimmy fighting in some place called &#39;the Taliban&#39;, death by chips and cheese, and those crazy people who comment online.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We would like to apologise for any offence that may have been caused by such chat. We apologise for the length of the podcast. And for the sound quality. And for the fact that due to the remnants of a bad cold, Scott&#39;s voice sounds like Michael Jackson. Just, well, sorry.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We&#39;ll try better next time.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To download the first episode of our podcast, visit the link here and you can download it straight away, or subscribe via iTunes or Feedburner.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And once you&#39;ve finished listening to our lengthy drivel, let us know what you think...</description>
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    <description>Well, the microphones have &lt;i&gt;finally&lt;/i&gt; arrived and I&#39;ve worked out, very slowly, how to record with at least one of them.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So the first episode of our &lt;i&gt;For the Love of G...lasgow&lt;/i&gt; podcast will be done tomorrow night, all going well.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Jump over to the blog at Blogger to hear about my disturbing story about how I got my hands on the microphones last night, and check back soon for the first episode of the podcast.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The entire World of Comedy lies waiting in grim anticipation...</description>
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    <description>Hello again. This is just a note to let you know that ever since I started our &lt;a href=&quot;http://fortheloveofglasgow.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;little blog at Blogger&lt;/a&gt;, which is the separate but official blog for our up and coming podcast, I&#39;ve been pretty overwhelmed with the response, the number of people happy to subscribe to the podcast for free even though we&#39;ve not actually started it yet.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So please keep up with more of the same, but what Alan and I would really love to see is more comments on the blog, because we&#39;d like to know what you want us to yap about, or simply anything you think is worth a mention.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So all you need to do is go to the blog, subscribe for free to the podcast if you like, and put up a wee comment using the link you see at the end of each post.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks again, and I&#39;ll keep you posted with our preparations for the first episode...</description>
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    <description>This is a photo of me setting off into Glasgow for the first Santa Dash to help raise funds for  charity..........Hope you like my photo. </description>
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    <description>Hi Scott,  My favourite restaurant in Glasgow is Khublai Khan&#39;s in the Merchant City Candleriggs.  I try to go there as much as possible as its so</description>
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