Greetings friends from the sanctity of BRAPA Towers, where you find me recovering from my Northumbrian exploits with much strong tea,...

Thursday 15th February 2024 The magic of my Todmorden debut, on a replacement bus Sunday back in January 2014, is yet to be beaten. On...

(*Although I did, shortly after today's fourth pub). If I'd been pleasantly surprised to find Waterloo's excellent Four Ashes open an...

Thursday 11th January 2024 BANG BANG BANG! Don't worry, it ain't the sound of gunshots raining out over an estate pub car park (when will...

Saturday 6th January 2024, 12:26pm A chilly bus stop in Southport was the unlikely launch pad for 2024 BRAPA pub ticking. Merseyside is...

Thursday 7th December 2023, 1:03pm It takes some extreme conditions to have me thinking 'was it such a good idea to venture outside...

Greetings from a frosty York, I'm not looking forward to getting up at 6:30am tomorrow, to be on a 7:30am train I'm not really booked on,...

Friday 27th October, 11:21am Word up! After two of the consistantly strongest pub days in BRAPA history, it was time to head north out...

Thursday 19th October, 10:00am My first thought upon waking up in one of those super soft Lenny Henry approved beds in Bradford's premier...

Thursday 12th October 2023, 12:47pm From Islington to Armthorpe. Just like that. Only in the world of BRAPA. A first trip to this...

Lulled into a false sense of security by the town of King's Lynn on Thursday 17th August 2023. Crossing the manicured green parklands,...

6:10pm on a Saturday, only four pubs into the day, because Lincolnshire is a different animal. The kind of six toed (don't mention toes)...

With Eastbourne done for the day, the only remaining question was 'where to go for two more ticks?' I considered Polegate, I considered...

Not in danger of relegation, never going to challenge for the top half. These five show 'glimpses' but either make silly mistakes or...

Hello. It hasn't been the most wet-led of months, at least in terms of GBG '23 pub pints glugging down the BRAPA gullet. 30 new ticks...

It made more sense as a #ThirstyThursday on paper. But then I looked at the opening times of the seven pubs I had on my list. One didn't...

For this final part of my epic catch up, and thanks for your patience with this, we'll look back on two recent January trips. Firstly, a...

Saturday 7th January 2023, hey look at me blogging in the same month I visited pubs in for the first time since last summer. I'm...

BRAPA might have been officially on a 'Winter Break™' until the second week of January, but that didn't stop me from falling accidentally...

Good evening folks(tone), we're cooking on gas now. Only SIX weeks behind. Thursday 8th December, the final #ThirstyThursday of 2022,...