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BRAPA .... MONTH END REVIEW : SEPTEMBER 2025
Me, after the annual GBG cross-ticking I've been through the wringer last month I tell ya! A wringer of my own making, but still a...

Si Everitt
32 minutes ago7 min read
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BRAPA in .... MOONLIGHT FLIT TO BRISTOL CIT. (PT 1 of 8)
Approaching 10pm, Friday night in Bristol, 29th August and I'm wondering if I can squeeze three ticks in before closing time. I'd...

Si Everitt
2 days ago7 min read
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BRAPA is .... MADE TO PAY IN M.K.
Saturday 23rd August 2025 Back in those hazy glory days of 74% GBG completion and warm sunny weather, I decided to bravely go where...

Si Everitt
5 days ago8 min read
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BRAPA in .... PRE-EMPTIVES COME GOOD : HAPPY GBG DAY PT 2/2
It may've been a brutal churn again this year, but at least there were eleven occasions whilst I was cross-ticking the Good Beer Guide...

Si Everitt
6 days ago6 min read
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BRAPA in .... HAPPY GOOD BEER GUIDE 2026 DAY (PART 1 OF 2)
Thursday 25th September 2025 Good morning! The CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2026 is officially released today, meaning an end to the embargo...

Si Everitt
6 days ago7 min read
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BRAPA in .... WEDDING CRASHER, PUB DASHER (NORTH OXON 3/3)
Saturday 16th August 2025 Another country road with no footpath, another day in North Oxfordshire. After yesterday's outer Bicester...

Si Everitt
Sep 1110 min read
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BRAPA in ... TWISTED BICESTER (WE'RE NOT GONNA TICK IT) : OXON PT 2/3
Friday 15th August 2025 This is a lengthy one (that's what she said!) so apologies, pour yourself a stiff drink. Some BRAPA days really...

Si Everitt
Sep 912 min read
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BRAPA .... MONTH END REVIEW : AUGUST 2025
Happy (belated) September .... the best (& worst) month in the pub ticking calendar. If you follow me on what the kids probably call...

Si Everitt
Sep 75 min read
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BRAPA in .... NORTH OXFORDSHIRE : BY HOOKY OR CROOKY (PT 1/3)
Thursday 14th August 2025 York to Banbury direct? Didn't even know it was possible. It made the usual Dross Country train journey that...

Si Everitt
Aug 287 min read
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BRAPA in .... KENILWORTH ODE : THE DAWNING OF THE NEW FOOTBALL SEASON
Saturday 9th August 2025 With an air of inevitability, I was back on the Dross Country trains sitting miles away from Daddy BRAPA despite...

Si Everitt
Aug 266 min read
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BRAPA in .... KINVER BREWERY COCOA SHIRKS (STAFFS/WORCS BORDER PATROL)
Thursday 7th August 2025 "Wot, no hot chocolate?" #ThirstyThursdays are becoming more elaborate as we reach the business end of the pub...

Si Everitt
Aug 256 min read
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BRAPA in .... (BROMS)GROVE IS IN THE HEART : DEE-LITEFUL TICKING IN WORCS
Saturday 2nd August 2025 Blogging in the same month that I actually pubbed in? That's novel. I'm slowly catching up. But with a crazy...

Si Everitt
Aug 227 min read
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BRAPA is .... SAVING THE BREWS : SCHINDLER'S ROSLISTON (DERBYSHIRE COMPLETION)
Thursday 31st July 2025 In 2024, I fell one pub short of completing Derbyshire. That pub was the Bull's Head at Rosliston. I made a pact...

Si Everitt
Aug 206 min read
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BRAPA in .... OXON SHINES AS BERKS NEEDS TO CLEAN ITS LINES
Saturday 26th July 2025 Ivor Panda had his Mummy BRAPA homemade cherry scone and Arctic coffee (WHEN WILL THEY SPONSOR ME?) , I was down...

Si Everitt
Aug 188 min read
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BRAPA in .... OOH AAH, JUST A LITLINGTON TICK (RETURN TO EAST SUSSEX)
Saturday 19th July 2025 Three 'gentle' summer Saturday's with Daddy BRAPA remain before the mayhem of the football season commences, and...

Si Everitt
Aug 138 min read
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BRAPA ..... DEBUT IN THE BORDERS : THE GRAND OLD DUKE OF HAWICK, THEN HOME TO YOIK
Thursday 17th July 2025 I'm on an early morning LNER heading north for my first Scottish ticks of the 2024/25 season. I keep forgetting...

Si Everitt
Aug 117 min read
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BRAPA ..... COULD YOU BE THE MOST BEWDIFUL PUBS IN THE WORLD? (WORCS WIZARDRY)
Saturday 12th July 2025 It was all aboard the Severn Valley Railway on another scorchio summer Saturday down south, travelling in style...

Si Everitt
Aug 67 min read
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BRAPA is .... BEATING AROUND THE HOLLY BUSH / DIPTON SWILL : NORTHUMBERLAND DREAMS
Saturday 5th July 2025 Earlier release time today cos I'm off on 'dice night' in a few minutes having had no electricity all day........

Si Everitt
Aug 56 min read
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BRAPA in .... THE GRASSINGTON IS ALWAYS GREENER (ON THIS SIDE OF THE PENNINES)
Thursday 19th June 2025 Before my Gloucestershire liver killer (who sounds like a murderer influenced by the West's) came this perfect...

Si Everitt
Aug 35 min read
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BRAPA - MONTH END REVIEW JULY 2025
A gentle 34 pub month was probably the comedown my liver needed after my June Gloucestershire epic (67 pubs in 11 days) as I move on to...

Si Everitt
Aug 15 min read
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