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

Si Everitt
7 minutes ago7 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
1 day ago6 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
3 days ago5 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
5 days ago5 min read
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BRAPA ... GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTDOWN : PT 10/10 (SHOUT IT OUT STROUD - PUBS 5-1)
Here we go, final part just in time for month end. Month end review with you Friday if I survive my trip out tomorrow. Pelican,...

Si Everitt
Jul 306 min read
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BRAPA ... GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTDOWN : PT 9/10 (VERSED IN DURSLEY - PUBS 11-6)
Old Spot Inn, Dursley Just like Cheltenham's Sandford Park Alehouse, here we find a former National CAMRA Pub of the Year winner (2007)...

Si Everitt
Jul 286 min read
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BRAPA ... GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTDOWN : PT 8/10 (BETTER TO HAVE TICKED IN GLOS THAN NEVER TICKED AT ALL - PUBS 17-12)
Plot twist .... none of these pubs are actually in Gloucestershire, but border the county closely enough for Glos to unfairly take all...

Si Everitt
Jul 256 min read
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BRAPA ... GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTDOWN : PT 7/10 (GLOSSY GLOSBOURNE - PUBS 24-18)
BMI Club, Upton St Leonards 'Is this the right place?' I wondered. Even for a club, it didn't look very 'beery'. Modern church? 'More...

Si Everitt
Jul 238 min read
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BRAPA ... GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTDOWN : PT 6/9 (WHAT'S IT LIKE TO SEE A STROUD? - PUBS 31-25)
These lot are actually good, and we've still got three parts to go after this one. Gloucestershire - better than Oxfordshire, Norfolk...

Si Everitt
Jul 216 min read
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BRAPA ... GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTDOWN : PT 5/9 (SO SOUTH WESTERN, YOU'RE PRACTICALLY SOUTH WELSH - PUBS 38-32)
We've reached the halfway point in this 67 pub review of Glos and surrounding counties. If you've read every word so far, keep going and...

Si Everitt
Jul 166 min read
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BRAPA ... GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTDOWN : PT 4/9 (MIDDLE OF THE ROAD THRILLS - PUBS 45-39)
Happy Sunday! Antiques Roadshow and Countryfile are done, you are settling down for the evening, hot milk in the microwave, dread of the...

Si Everitt
Jul 136 min read
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BRAPA ... GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTDOWN : PT 3/9 (NOT QUITE SHITE, SORT OF ALRIGHT - PUBS 52-46)
Welcome back! We're seeing an upturn in pub quality already, which I think says a lot of the general standard of Glos et al ticks this...

Si Everitt
Jul 116 min read
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BRAPA ... GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTDOWN : PT 2/9 (MINOR IRRITANTS - PUBS 60-53)
Welcome back! Part two, and don't be surprised if I'm still writing about this Glos et al holiday when the new Good Beer Guide is...

Si Everitt
Jul 96 min read
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BRAPA ... GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTDOWN : PT 1/9 (THE GLOS DROSS - PUBS 67-61)
A liver shattering 67 pubs were visited on my recent epic Gloucs holiday, also taking in odd bits of Worcestershire, Wiltshire, Gwent,...

Si Everitt
Jul 76 min read
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BRAPA .... MONTH END REVIEW : JUNE 2025
Me post Gloucestershire If you've been following my exploits on X/Bluesky over the past week and a half, you won't be too surprised to...

Si Everitt
Jul 36 min read
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BRAPA in .... BLOODY PUBBISH MANSFIELD!
Thursday 12th June 2025 When Hull City plummeted to division four during the Dolan doldrum era circa 1996 and we started playing...

Si Everitt
Jun 205 min read
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BRAPA is .... A MAN ON A MISSON : NOTTS, LINCS & RUTLAND BY CAR
Sunday 8th June 2025 No more iconic a BRAPA day then bobbing up and down the A1(M) / A15 in Mummy BRAPA's 'yellow peril' (if I can call...

Si Everitt
Jun 187 min read
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BRAPA & .... THE HOLBEACH BOYS (WOULDN'T IT BE NICE .... TO FINISH LINCOLNSHIRE?)
Thursday 5th June 2025 I hope you'll agree when I say that stepping over a mosaic threshold is the best of all pub entrances .... well...

Si Everitt
Jun 166 min read
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BRAPA is .... OUT OF (NEP)TUNE : ALL ALONG THE WATCHMAKERS (HOVE PT 2/2)
Saturday 31st May 2025, 3pm Three pubs to go in our Portslade / Hove bundle, and a bus with a number like 1 or 1X takes us out east,...

Si Everitt
Jun 134 min read
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BRAPA in .... HOVE BREWSDAY : BEER NOT AS FLAT AS A PANCAKE (PART 1/2)
Saturday 31st May 2025 Gawd bless those close-season Saturday LNER trips daaahhnn saaarrf. Zero threat of encountering a carriage full...

Si Everitt
Jun 114 min read
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