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Si Everitt
13 minutes ago7 min read
BRAPA ... CHRISTMAS SPECIAL : UX, BUCKS & THE SEASONAL PUB INFLUX
Saturday 21st December 2024, 9:30am Ho, ho, bloomin' ho! You find me deep in the London Underground, ready to embark on a trip all the...
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Si Everitt
24 hours ago5 min read
BRAPA HAS ... A THORN(BRIDGE) ON MY SIDE : BURYING COLMORE DEMONS IN BAKEWELL
Thursday 19th December 2024 The final thirsty Thursday of the year (unless you count Boxing Day in Preston, which I'm not) took me to...
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Si Everitt
3 days ago6 min read
BRAPA ... SINGS THE COVENTRY CAROL ALONG THE COVENTRY CANAL (Lully, lullay, thou little tiny twild)
Saturday 14th December 2024, 10am Lunchtime away kick offs. Gawd bless you Sky TV! So much better for the pub ticker than a 3...
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Si Everitt
4 days ago8 min read
BRAPA .... GETS A YELLOW CARD, PUB TICKING SHOULDN'T BE THIS HARD (from Chester to Liverpool)
Thursday 12th December, 12:30pm Word up! Complacency sets in after last week's accidental late night Wrexham slippage, and I'm thinking...
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Si Everitt
5 days ago8 min read
BRAPA .... LIVING KENT FREE IN MY HEAD (WEST ISN'T ALWAYS BEST)
Saturday 7th December 2024 I'd never been stalked by a storm before, but any hopes I'd had of leaving Darragh in Wrexham 30 hours...
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Si Everitt
Jan 69 min read
BRAPA .... NEARLY GIPS, BUT IS SAVED BY MR CHIPS (a Cheshire/NE Wales Adventure)
Thursday 5th December 12:30pm As the bus trundles on its interminable route from Chester to Parkgate, a prettier place than it sounds out...
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Si Everitt
Jan 37 min read
BRAPA IN .... UM BONGLETON, UM BONGLETON, WE DRINK IT IN THE CONGLETON
Saturday 30th November 2024 Middlesbrough away today for Hull City, so the logical BRAPA day out took us to Congleton, obviously! Only...
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Si Everitt
Jan 111 min read
BRAPA REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2024 : HAPPY NEW YEAR
Brappy New Year pub lovers! (Allo Allo style intro) You might wonder, why I am sat here, live from BRAPA Towers, brandishing a can of...
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Si Everitt
Dec 23, 20246 min read
BRAPA ... DONS WARRINGTON WINTER WOOLIES
Thursday 28th November 2024 A trip across the Pennines for three ticks in Warrington on this icy morning in York. My first trip here...
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Si Everitt
Dec 20, 20248 min read
BRAPA in .... A GAME OF TWO HALVES AND SEVEN PINTS IN LONDON (W9 to E17)
Saturday 23rd November 2024 BRAPA F.C. are away at the London City Casuals, always a tough place to go and get a result. Daddy BRAPA...
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Si Everitt
Dec 17, 20245 min read
BRAPA is ..... BLUE SKY DRINKING WITH THE STEEPLE PEOPLE (Northallerton /Darlo Special)
Thursday 21st November 2024 Not a cloud in the bluest of blue skies on the iciest of icy mornings as I trundle up the line to...
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Si Everitt
Dec 15, 20246 min read
BRAPA is .... OMNI-PRESENT IN MALTON (EAST-NORTH YORKS MOP UP)
Saturday 16th November, 11:57am A last minute decision to swerve off the heavy traffic on the A64 and into Malton meant we'd reversed...
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Si Everitt
Dec 13, 20246 min read
BRAPA .... LONDON COLIN TO THE FARAWAY TOWNS
Saturday 9th November 2024 Time to say adios to Oxfordshire, and head to London for a bonus day of pub ticking. I'd normally go home at...
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Si Everitt
Dec 10, 20248 min read
BRAPA .... OXFORDSHIRE COUNTDOWN FINALE (PART 5 of 5, PUBS 6-1)
Evening pop pickers / pub tickers / window lickers, Here we go. The moment all your hard work on this Tuesday (even though I'm writing...
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Si Everitt
Dec 9, 20246 min read
BRAPA .... OXFORDSHIRE COUNTDOWN (PART 4 of 5, PUBS 13-7)
Seven more pubs. All decent or actually good. Let's get straight into it ....... Crafty Pint, Witney Despite its atrocious frontage...
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Si Everitt
Dec 6, 20244 min read
BRAPA .... OXFORDSHIRE COUNTDOWN (PART 3 of 5, PUBS 19-14)
'Hidden Gems of Oxfordshire' is how A.I. wants me to approach this blog. Silly robot. Far too optimistic, although now that we've...
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Si Everitt
Dec 3, 20246 min read
BRAPA .... OXFORDSHIRE COUNTDOWN (PART 2 of 5, PUBS 26-20)
Welcome back you gluttons for pub punishment - PUBISHMENT! I suspect this next batch might be hard to make interesting, colourful or...
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Si Everitt
Dec 1, 20244 min read
BRAPA .... MONTH END REVIEW : NOVEMBER 2024
Greetings! This 'cat' might be playing a late lament for 2024, but cheer up mate, here at BRAPA Towers we are in jubilant mood after a...
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Si Everitt
Nov 27, 20246 min read
BRAPA .... OXFORDSHIRE COUNTDOWN (PART 1 of 5, PUBS 32-27)
My first serious foray into Oxon earlier this month yielded 32 ticks (well one was in Bucks but it is near enough to the border to be...
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Si Everitt
Nov 25, 20245 min read
BRAPA .... ALL SCREAM FOR HALESOWEN (Hallowe'en Special Part 2/2)
Saturday 2nd November 2024 A.I. suggests I call this blog "The Quirky Pub Culture of Yorkshire" which reassures me that I'm still...
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