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