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BRAPA - THE WILTSHIRE COUNTDOWN : PART 1 (RELEGATION HORRORSHOW)
Good evening, and having ticked off 45 pubs on my recent BRAPA Spring Holiday, I'll start by telling you about the very first two that...

Si Everitt
May 2, 20236 min read
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BRAPA MONTH END REVIEW - APRIL 2023 (RECORD BREAKERS!)
Good evening friends, I hope this brief (by my standards) catch up finds you and your lizards (livers) well after the Bank Holiday...

Si Everitt
May 1, 20232 min read
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BRAPA IN .... GET ME TO THE CHAPEL ON TIME : FUN ON TEESSIDE
How green is your North Yorkshire? With a 12:45pm finish at work, and a 20:00 kick off* up at play off certs Middlesbrough, it was time...

Si Everitt
Apr 21, 20236 min read
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BRAPA in .... HEY PRESTO(N), THREE MORE TICKS
A few months before the 2023 Good Beer Guide was released, I was on a bus between Garstang and Lancaster with my old mate Matthew...

Si Everitt
Apr 18, 20235 min read
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BRAPA in .... SILVER(DALE) LINING / WARTONS 'N ALL
"You rang, m'lord" says the ghostly butler appearing at my arm as I enter today's first GBG pub. He looks a bit like an elderly vulture,...

Si Everitt
Apr 17, 20234 min read
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BRAPA ... THE EASTER PUB TROPHY 2023 (PT 4/4) I'M A SHEPSHED DYNAMO
Two more 'fixtures' to bring you, and then I'll whizz through the quarter finals, semis and final because I think we can all agree,...

Si Everitt
Apr 16, 20235 min read
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BRAPA .... THE EASTER PUB TROPHY 2023 (PART 3/4)
Welcome along to Friday night pub-ball. Unless you are watching this on catch-up (i.e reading this on Saturday morning). Ooh, I'm...

Si Everitt
Apr 14, 20236 min read
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BRAPA .... THE EASTER PUB TROPHY (PART 2/4)
With Woodman's Stroke, Rothley and Tyne Bar, Byker both safely through to the quarter finals, we have two more ties tonight to see who...

Si Everitt
Apr 13, 20235 min read
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BRAPA ..... THE EASTER PUB TROPHY 2023 (PART 1/4)
Good evening! 16 GBG pubs were ticked over Easter weekend, the number of teams you'd have remaining in an FA Cup fifth round draw. So...

Si Everitt
Apr 11, 20235 min read
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BRAPA IS ..... ONE SANDWICH SHORT OF A TICK, NICK
The pretty posh village of Ickham isn't quite on the Sandwich-Canterbury bus route, which is a bit anti-social of it really, when you are...

Si Everitt
Apr 5, 20236 min read
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BRAPA - A SANDWICH (meal) DEAL
It might've happened in Ramsgate station, but it DID happen. I'd picked up a sandwich, and a drink, and the lady behind the counter says...

Si Everitt
Apr 3, 20235 min read
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BRAPA MONTH END REVIEW - MARCH 2023
Hello. It hasn't been the most wet-led of months, at least in terms of GBG '23 pub pints glugging down the BRAPA gullet. 30 new ticks...

Si Everitt
Mar 31, 20234 min read
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BRAPA - NOTTS ELECT v DEAL & WALMER F.C. (2nd half)
Welcome back to the second half. 2-1 to the Kentish outfit at the break, but all to play for. Especially with Notts bringing the big...

Si Everitt
Mar 30, 20236 min read
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BRAPA - NOTTS ELECT v DEAL & WALMER F.C. (1st half)
Greetings! 'Tis time for another fixture as we pit four pubs in rural Notts against four I did in Deal & Walmer at the weekend. There...

Si Everitt
Mar 27, 20236 min read
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BRAPA KNOCKOUT - AXHOLME, DONNY & WARWICKSHIRE TROPHY (PART 2/2 : WE HAVE A WINNER)
So, after the exciting first part in which the Ferry House at Burton-upon-Stather and the Coach & Horses at Barnburgh made the semi...

Si Everitt
Mar 22, 20235 min read
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BRAPA - IT'S A KNOCKOUT! THE AXHOLME OUTER DONNY WARWICKSHIRE TROPHY (1/2)
Eight pubs to tell you about over the next two blogs, all dotted around the country, which got me thinking 'what exciting format could I...

Si Everitt
Mar 20, 20235 min read
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BRAPA SNOWDOWN .... KENT MICRO NORTH END v CHARNWOOD & NUNEATON CASUALS (2nd half)
Welcome back to the second half. To recap, it was 1-1 at half time after Kent snuck in a lucky late equaliser to cancel out Charnwood's...

Si Everitt
Mar 17, 20237 min read
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BRAPA SNOWDOWN .... KENT MICRO NORTH END v CHARNWOOD & NUNEATON CASUALS (1st half)
It was Kent v Midlands yet again and the question on everyone's lips pre-match was 'could the micropubs of North Kent do what Tunbridge...

Si Everitt
Mar 13, 20236 min read
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BRAPA SHOWDOWN .... LOUGHBOROUGH v ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS (the second half)
"She's one of our own, she's one of our own, ohhhh Christine Taylor, she's one of our own" chant the Tunbridge massive as the players...

Si Everitt
Mar 8, 20235 min read
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BRAPA SHOWDOWN .... LOUGHBOROUGH & DISTRICT v TUNBRIDGE WELLS (first half)
Good evening, and following hot on the heels of the Norfolk Countdown, I've come up with another new style of blogging. A couple of weeks...

Si Everitt
Mar 6, 20236 min read
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