Tuesday 7th April 2026 Armed with a panda, emergency beermat and a floppy homemade ham and marmalade sandwich which smells of tom cats, it was back up north out of Bicester for my penultimate day of this BRAPA break. The long Easter weekend was over and I was relieved, public transport normality could resume, if normality is ever a thing with public transport. Quieter trains and ashen 'back to work' faces abound as I set out for Kenilworth, from where I'm the only passenger a

Monday 22nd November 2025, 3pm "Don't even start on the lifts cos I'm sick of hearing about them. YES, I KNOW one is out of service and the other is being repaired. You'll just have to take the stairs. If ONE MORE person mentions it to me today, I'm going to lose it, so how can I help you?" "Errrm, well I just want to check in if possible?" I squeak in reply. This was the start to a week of pub ticking, 33 Greater London Good Beer Guide pubs remain, the majority of which