Wednesday 5th August 2026 Heritage Pub 101 It started with the purchase of six Lidl eggs as the sun sets on a balmy summer's evening just outside Horsham town centre. Because if I can't have my breakfast eggs how could I possible face the tough pub agenda I'd set myself? Back in May 2025, after a successful birthday week in Chichester coincided with Hull City's Championship survival at Pompey on the final day of the season, I'd promised myself that during 2026 I'd get mysel

Saturday 1st August 2026 The Daddy BRAPA close season of summer fun continued in Merseyside, hopping on the Merseyrail at Liverpool Central for our annual trip across (under?) the river...... Merseyside LOVES a Wetherspoons more than most areas (there's a lazy joke in there about unemployed 'Spoons punters / Scousers / Woolybacks which I'm definitely not going to make cos I'm nice and NOT lazy). A 'Spoons in every port. And Hoylake, possibly a one time port, had a pre-empti

Thursday 23rd July 2026 Welcome to my 500th Wix Blog. It doesn't seem long ago since I was in Newport Wetherspoons in South Wales struggling to upload photos onto rubbish Blogger and decided I needed to move platforms. An eleventh hour change to my plans for this particular #ThirstyThursday helped me to keep my July numbers to a respectable level following a zero tick Knaresborough outing the previous Saturday. Hertfordshire had been my original plan, but my 'key' pub in Ste