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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Si Everitt
Jun 18, 20236 min read
BRAPA in .... HOW NOW COW & PLOUGH : CIRCLING THE DRAINS OF LEICS
Leicestershire won't come quietly as a ticking county. The sheer lack of pubs opening at a sociable hour (12 noon or earlier if you...
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Si Everitt
Jun 14, 20234 min read
BRAPA in the .... BRENCHMARK FOR ALL GREAT PUBS (Rural Kent 2/2)
Halfway through perhaps my most spectacular of all Kentish pub ticking days so far (and yes, I HAVE been to Gillingham before you ask),...
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Si Everitt
Jun 12, 20234 min read
BRAPA in .... I BEG YOUR PARDON, I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN (OF ENGLAND) : Rural Kent 1/2
There have been times during my quest to fully complete the Kent GBG entries when I've questioned whether the famous 'Garden of England'...
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Si Everitt
Jun 11, 20233 min read
BRAPA is ..... THE KING OF WISHFUL HINCKING (Leics 2/2)
Hinckley! At last. Once described as 'the most rewarding of all Leicestershire towns to pub tick' by a bloke who knows, he completed...
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