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BRAPA is .... KESSING(LAND) WITH CONFIDENCE
Southwold had put on a good show on its BRAPA debut, but it was time to hop back on that bumpy bus in a Lowestofterly direction, a couple...

Si Everitt
Aug 1, 20235 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jul 31, 20233 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jul 30, 20235 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jul 26, 20234 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jul 25, 20236 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jul 24, 20234 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jul 23, 20235 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jul 21, 20234 min read
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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)...

Si Everitt
Jul 19, 20234 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jul 17, 20235 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jul 16, 20234 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jul 13, 20234 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jul 12, 20234 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jul 11, 20236 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jul 10, 20234 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jul 3, 20234 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jun 30, 20235 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jun 29, 20235 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jun 23, 20234 min read
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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...

Si Everitt
Jun 20, 20234 min read
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