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Si Everitt

Jul 31, 20233 min read

BRAPA .... MONTH END REVIEW : JULY 2023

Good evening pub fans. We're reaching the business end of the 2022/23 pub ticking season, August being the last full month with this...

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BRAPA is .... SETTING THE BAR LOW-ESTOFT

Si Everitt

Jul 30, 20235 min read

BRAPA is .... SETTING THE BAR LOW-ESTOFT

Bungay didn't feel particularly remote, in fact it had a nice selection of well tarmacked roads going east and west. But there was...

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BRAPA is having a .... BUNGAY BUNGAY PARTY

Si Everitt

Jul 26, 20234 min read

BRAPA is having a .... BUNGAY BUNGAY PARTY

But before I went the full Berlusconi , it was time for the flipside of my Diss track, the highly pre-emptive local POTY Ampersand Brew...

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BRAPA in .... IF YOU TOLERATE DISS, THEN YOUR CHILDREN WILL DRINK BECKS

Si Everitt

Jul 25, 20236 min read

BRAPA in .... IF YOU TOLERATE DISS, THEN YOUR CHILDREN WILL DRINK BECKS

Finally using the blog title that's been in my head for about the last five years .... although I've blabbed to half of you already on...

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BRAPA in ..... ALL ACE TOURS END AT THE RACEHORSE

Si Everitt

Jul 24, 20234 min read

BRAPA in ..... ALL ACE TOURS END AT THE RACEHORSE

If the Star at Wenhaston was tucked deep in the secluded Suffolk countryside, well baby I just ain't seen n... n... nothing yet (not a...

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BRAPA in .... WENHAS(TON) PUB TICKING EVER BEEN THIS MUCH FUN?

Si Everitt

Jul 23, 20235 min read

BRAPA in .... WENHAS(TON) PUB TICKING EVER BEEN THIS MUCH FUN?

Insane that a pub this large could make me feel so hemmed in, so stifled, so trapped, but that is what happened during a miserable half...

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BRAPA in .... YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' ELY-ING

Si Everitt

Jul 21, 20234 min read

BRAPA in .... YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' ELY-ING

I think it was Noel Coward who once remarked "the most flamboyant and farcical plays of our times have their roots firmly planted deep...

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BRAPA in .... A FINE MESSINGHAM YOU'VE GOTTEN ME INTO

Si Everitt

Jul 19, 20234 min read

BRAPA in .... A FINE MESSINGHAM YOU'VE GOTTEN ME INTO

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)...

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BRAPA is in .... RURAL LINCS PUBS AND 'WILLINGHAM' TO IMPROVE

Si Everitt

Jul 17, 20235 min read

BRAPA is in .... RURAL LINCS PUBS AND 'WILLINGHAM' TO IMPROVE

"If you were a murderer on the run, you could do a lot worse than hide here!" says Daddy BRAPA, as we drive through the isolated village...

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Si Everitt

Jul 16, 20234 min read

BRAPA in .... CHEWY LEWES & THE BOOZE

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

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BRAPA in .... EAST-BOURNE UNDER A PUB SIGN (Part 2/2)

Si Everitt

Jul 13, 20234 min read

BRAPA in .... EAST-BOURNE UNDER A PUB SIGN (Part 2/2)

Greetings! And if you read my previous blog, you'll know that I'm down in Eastbourne, or Ocklynge to be precise, where I'd just enjoyed...

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BRAPA IN .... IRRATIONAL GRANTHAM / EASTBOURNE UNDER A PUB SIGN (PT 1)

Si Everitt

Jul 12, 20234 min read

BRAPA IN .... IRRATIONAL GRANTHAM / EASTBOURNE UNDER A PUB SIGN (PT 1)

Back in Grantham after some ridiculous long walking, so when I finally hop off the (delayed) bus in town for the mad dash to two pubs...

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BRAPA in .... HATS OFF TO THE BRENTWOOD BOVVER BOYS (& LINCS DRINKS BONUS)

Si Everitt

Jul 11, 20236 min read

BRAPA in .... HATS OFF TO THE BRENTWOOD BOVVER BOYS (& LINCS DRINKS BONUS)

I was coming towards the end of the first summer Saturday in June, kindly chauffeured around by Simon & Daddy Dewhurst. It had all been...

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BRAPA and .... THE PLUSHIE PRODIGY IN PLESHEY (PUB TICKING IN RURAL ESSEX)

Si Everitt

Jul 10, 20234 min read

BRAPA and .... THE PLUSHIE PRODIGY IN PLESHEY (PUB TICKING IN RURAL ESSEX)

Okay, I'll admit that the skip and scaffolding doesn't reflect the quintessential picture postcard peak 100% English village pub...

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BRAPA in .... WHAT A WONDERFUL (PUB TICKING) WORLD : FROM DOVER TO CHELMSFORD

Si Everitt

Jul 3, 20234 min read

BRAPA in .... WHAT A WONDERFUL (PUB TICKING) WORLD : FROM DOVER TO CHELMSFORD

I don't think I've ever quite seen an open pub looked quite so shut as the Louis Armstrong, Dover (2507 / 4401). So much so that it it...

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Si Everitt

Jun 30, 20235 min read

BRAPA MONTH END REVIEW JUNE '23

Good evening all, 'Tis the end of June, where does the time go? Less than three months until the 2024 Good Beer Guide arrives, in all...

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BRAPA in ... CANTERBURY FAILS? (Kent Pt 4/4)

Si Everitt

Jun 29, 20235 min read

BRAPA in ... CANTERBURY FAILS? (Kent Pt 4/4)

Apologies for the unsociable release time on tonight's blog, my body clock is all out of kilter after my Norfolk/Suffolk adventure, I've...

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BRAPA in .... YOU CAN KEEP YA COSTA BRAVA ... (dahn to Margate Pt 3/4)

Si Everitt

Jun 23, 20234 min read

BRAPA in .... YOU CAN KEEP YA COSTA BRAVA ... (dahn to Margate Pt 3/4)

A couple of Kentish Gypsy Tarts on your bed, probably the best way to start any day's pub ticking: ..... and on the eve of my Margate...

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BRAPA in .... BABY, IT'S COLDRED OUTSIDE (Dover Pt 2/4)

Si Everitt

Jun 20, 20234 min read

BRAPA in .... BABY, IT'S COLDRED OUTSIDE (Dover Pt 2/4)

Safely (in a manner of speaking) checked in at my accommodation in sunny Dover, it was time for the 'evening session' on day one of my...

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Si Everitt

Jun 19, 20234 min read

BRAPA in .... DOVER R. SOLE (PART 1/4)

Wetherspoons Dover, there is no better way to light the blue touch paper on a late May Bank Holiday weekend of pub ticking, I'm sure you...

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