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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
2 hours ago6 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
3 days ago6 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
5 days ago6 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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BRAPA in .... THE TAMING OF THE TAMESIDE : QUISH, QUASH, QUOSH, THAT'S YOUR LOT!
Saturday 24th May 2025 It was a tricky start to our latest BRAPA outing, crossing the Pennines in search of five pub ticks east of...

Si Everitt
Jun 107 min read
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BRAPA is .... THE PUB TICKER WITH THE PEARL EARRING (B/W KINDER SURMISE)
Sorry for the late release time, I fell asleep after work for far too long and Wales v Belgium has been distracting me. Thursday 22nd May...

Si Everitt
Jun 97 min read
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BRAPA in .... SMETHWICK GALTON BRIDGE MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK
Saturday 17th May 2025 The annual post-season outing was upon us, exploring the GBG pubs in that Stourbridge-Wolverhampton corridor with...

Si Everitt
Jun 78 min read
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BRAPA is .... SAFE AS (SEA)HOUSES (B/W HASSLE AT THE CASTLE)
Thursday 15th May 2025 I'd made it as far north as Low (& High) Newton-by-the-Sea on my last Northumbrian coastal jaunt, running out of...

Si Everitt
Jun 45 min read
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BRAPA is .... TYING HIMSELF IN NOTTS : THE DAWG THAT DIDN'T WOOF
10th May 2025 When I saw this peculiar mutt on the train to Nottingham, I say to Daddy BRAPA 'that's a good omen for one of our pubs...

Si Everitt
Jun 36 min read
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BRAPA .... MONTH END REVIEW : MAY 2025
Greetings pub lovers, 66 new Good Beer Guide pubs visited in the month of May, smashing the previous record of 55. It takes me up to...

Si Everitt
Jun 16 min read
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BRAPA in .... THERE'S NO SWERVING WORTHING : BIRTHDAY BOOZE BLUES (West Sussex Pt 7/7)
Tuesday 6th May 2025 46 years old! And I felt every inch of it on this, my seventh consecutive day of pub ticking down in West Sussex. ...

Si Everitt
May 307 min read
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BRAPA is ... AS SHOREHAM AS I'LL EVER BE : WEST SUSSEX PT. 6/7
Monday 5th May 2025 I say it every year ".....I'm not ticking on a Bank Holiday Monday, not worth it mate!" And fail. Not only is public...

Si Everitt
May 297 min read
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BRAPA is .... ABSOLUTELY HALNAKER'D : WEST SUSSEX PT 5/7
Sunday 4th May 2025 People who wish you a 'Happy Star Wars day' every May 4th need to be shot. It is important we get that straight from...

Si Everitt
May 278 min read
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