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...

Happy Sunday! Antiques Roadshow and Countryfile are done, you are settling down for the evening, hot milk in the microwave, dread of the...

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...

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...

A liver shattering 67 pubs were visited on my recent epic Gloucs holiday, also taking in odd bits of Worcestershire, Wiltshire, Gwent,...

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...

Thursday 12th June 2025 When Hull City plummeted to division four during the Dolan doldrum era circa 1996 and we started playing...

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...

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...

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,...

Saturday 31st May 2025 Gawd bless those close-season Saturday LNER trips daaahhnn saaarrf. Zero threat of encountering a carriage full...

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...

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...

Saturday 17th May 2025 The annual post-season outing was upon us, exploring the GBG pubs in that Stourbridge-Wolverhampton corridor with...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...