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BRAPA .... JOINS THE 60% CLUB : Please Sir, Can I Have Some Chor(ley)? Pt 2/2
Three pubs to go before I became the first ever person in the world who religiously watches Neighbours and eats fig rolls to complete 60%...

Si Everitt
Mar 22, 20244 min read
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BRAPA ..... Joins the 60% club : Chorley you can't be serious (Pt 1/2)
Saturday 16th March With Coventry thinking that the FA Cup is still a 'thing', a bonus blank weekend took me to the leading pub town to...

Si Everitt
Mar 19, 20245 min read
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BRAPA goes ticking with .... COLIN, JANE AND BLACKPOOL SOO, TOO
Thursday 14th March 2024 Now I'm not saying that new BRAPA mascot Blackpool Soo is a big girl, because I wouldn't fat shame like that,...

Si Everitt
Mar 18, 20245 min read
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BRAPA ..... LIKE A KNIVETON THROUGH BITTER (Pt 2/2)
Wirksworth, Belper and Holbrook DONE. It had been good for starters. But with the BRAPA eye firmly on the rural prize, it had been just...

Si Everitt
Mar 17, 20244 min read
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BRAPA in .... YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF IN DERBYSHIRE TO HAVE A GOOD TIME (Pt 1/2)
Saturday 9th March 2024, 11:40am Derbyshire isn't a county I've had much of a pub ticking appetite for since I completed it in Long Eaton...

Si Everitt
Mar 15, 20244 min read
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BRAPA in .... EVERY PUB'S A WIN(NER) -MARLEIGH, THAT'S THE TRUTH : OUTER PRESTON FUN
Saturday 2nd March 2024, 11am Penalty appeals are waved away as Ozan Toucan fails to stay on his feet in the M62 area. Hull City were...

Si Everitt
Mar 13, 20245 min read
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BRAPA - NORTHUMBRIAN COUNTDOWN (PUBS 7-1)
Business end of the season, here we go! Worth also trying to summarise Northumberland in a nutshell, how it compares it other GBG...

Si Everitt
Mar 11, 20247 min read
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BRAPA - NORTHUMBRIAN COUNTDOWN PART 3/4 (pubs 14-8)
Welcome back! Let's get stuck into some decent stuff now, I might still have the odd gripe but we'll see an improvement with this bunch....

Si Everitt
Mar 7, 20246 min read
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BRAPA - NORTHUMBRIAN COUNTDOWN PART 2/4 (pubs 20-15)
I hope I didn't sound like too much of a curmudgeonly grump in part one, but tonight we'll move on to a slightly happier batch. Still a...

Si Everitt
Mar 4, 20245 min read
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BRAPA - NORTHUMBRIAN COUNTDOWN PART 1/4 (pubs 26-21)
Ranking the North Eastern pubs I visited last week in order of 'worst to best' has been an almost impossible task. Quite often, my more...

Si Everitt
Mar 3, 20246 min read
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BRAPA MONTH END REVIEW - FEBRUARY 2024
Greetings friends from the sanctity of BRAPA Towers, where you find me recovering from my Northumbrian exploits with much strong tea,...

Si Everitt
Mar 1, 20244 min read
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BRAPA in .... A RARE ROCH-FAIL (AND 3 OTHER TALES OF GREATER MANC WOE)
I have a soft spot for Rochdale. That should be made clear from the outset, else nothing good will come of this blog. 1999 and the...

Si Everitt
Feb 22, 20247 min read
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BRAPA in .... SEASONS GREETLANDS : COMPLETING WEST YORKSHIRE
I kept up my BRAPA record of completing West Yorkshire every year since 2016 (it would've been 2015 too but for that pesky Wetherby) with...

Si Everitt
Feb 21, 20243 min read
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BRAPA in .... I BEG YOUR ARDEN, ACCRINGTON NEVER PROMISED ME A ROSE GARDEN
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...

Si Everitt
Feb 18, 20244 min read
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BRAPA in .... WATCH OUT, CHEADLE'S ABOUT (PART 2/2)
Welcome back. Nearly gave you a long read but after feedback from RetiredMartin, I've stuck to the bite-sized (for me) three pub per...

Si Everitt
Feb 16, 20245 min read
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BRAPA in .... WATCH OUT, CHEADLE'S ABOUT (PART 1/2)
Still riding the crest of my MerseyWave 36 hours early, it was time to head back over t' wrong side of t'hills once again to begin my...

Si Everitt
Feb 15, 20244 min read
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BRAPA is ..... BEERY 'CROSS THE MERSEY (Straddling the Lancs/Merseyside border Pt 2/2)
Uber number 3 of the day took me to the canal side outpost which is the Ship Inn Lathom (2638 / 4799). Lathom was a hard one to fathom...

Si Everitt
Feb 12, 20245 min read
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BRAPA is.... SNOWY DONKEY (Straddling the Mersyside/Lancs Border) Part 1/2
Nearly 10 years pub ticking experience and I still make stupid mistakes. Wednesday 7th Feb, and I'd booked myself a hotel for the night...

Si Everitt
Feb 11, 20245 min read
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BRAPA still in .... WATERLOO (COULDN'T ESCAPE IF I WANTED TO*) PART 2/2
(*Although I did, shortly after today's fourth pub). If I'd been pleasantly surprised to find Waterloo's excellent Four Ashes open an...

Si Everitt
Feb 9, 20244 min read
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BRAPA in .... WATERLOO (COULDN'T ESCAPE IF I WANTED TO) PART 1/2
Saturday 3rd February, 2024 Nine pubs left to do on Merseyside, and I was aiming for six of them today, providing I didn't do anything...

Si Everitt
Feb 6, 20244 min read
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