Saturday 20th December 2025 All aboard the festive Dross Country for the final BRAPA outing before Christmas. A curtailed day, as I'd booked myself a Birmingham-Leeds 5pm train back so I could meet my work colleagues for the back-end of our Christmas night out. Following on from what we'll term the 'Enfield Slip' two days previously, my left knee passed a late fitness test but my right hand wasn't so great. I cannot even lift a full pint, only a half. Conclusion - I must d

Saturday 22nd November 2025 All aboard the Dudley bound bus, 10:15am on a grey drizzly Brum day. A return home for my eponymous duck mascot. A slightly less talkative fellow traveller than Daddy BRAPA. No trains to London today had forced our hand, no QPR away game for us. We'd lose anyway, so it proved a lucky break. Not to mention the fact I'd be in London on Monday for the beginning of a week's ticking. Plenty of churn for me in the West Midlands in 2026, randomly dot

Thursday 14th August 2025 York to Banbury direct? Didn't even know it was possible. It made the usual Dross Country train journey that...

Saturday 9th August 2025 With an air of inevitability, I was back on the Dross Country trains sitting miles away from Daddy BRAPA despite...

Saturday 22nd February 2025 GBG progress : 10/10 Football outcome : 10/10 Beer : 8/10 People : 7/10 'Pubs' : 5/10 It was a successful day...

Saturday 31st August 2024 Having escaped the Sunderland fans bound for Pompey with their 8am cans and tinny Oasis singalong, we took a...