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...

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

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)...

"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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Halfway through perhaps my most spectacular of all Kentish pub ticking days so far (and yes, I HAVE been to Gillingham before you ask),...

There have been times during my quest to fully complete the Kent GBG entries when I've questioned whether the famous 'Garden of England'...

Hinckley! At last. Once described as 'the most rewarding of all Leicestershire towns to pub tick' by a bloke who knows, he completed...

It's raining, it's pouring, but BRAPA wasn't snoring on this Thirsty Thursday as I find myself back in Leicestershire, determined to find...