'Baseford', the locals in Hucknall tell me Basford is pronounced. Is this official, or are Hucknall folk just incredibly posh? Anyway,...

Saturday 7th January 2023, hey look at me blogging in the same month I visited pubs in for the first time since last summer. I'm...

BRAPA might have been officially on a 'Winter Break™' until the second week of January, but that didn't stop me from falling accidentally...

I'm in my hotel room, a bit hazy after my Folkestone epic, and England have just lost to France. I thought football was coming home but...

Good evening folks(tone), we're cooking on gas now. Only SIX weeks behind. Thursday 8th December, the final #ThirstyThursday of 2022,...

My final day in Edinburgh was here - Friday 2nd December and as long as nothing silly (or typically BRAPA) happened, a fully completed...

Hello! The eagle eyed of you might have noticed I've shoehorned a part 15 into this epic catch up. See it as a sign we've ended up in...

Just to keep the football supporting analogy going from Part 8, I'd like to thank the 14 people who have subscribed to my Wix blog, we'll...

Before we start, I'd just like to thank you loyal dear readers / skimmers / browsers of BRAPA. Viewing numbers have dropped a lot in the...

(Just a 'short' 8 pub epic catch up due to a lengthy Falkirk intro) The quest before I set out on my final holiday of 2022 was to fully...

Thursday 17th November, 11:50am and today's first pub was already open. So why the 'eck was I stood outside in the pouring rain,...

Colin the Cauliflower was sulking early doors in Kimberworth on Thursday 10th November 2022, as I refused to take him in The Colin. "Eye...

11 more pubs to tell you about, I'm cooking on gas, I'd be only two months behind if I get this one out before 5th Jan 23:59, shame I'm...

26th October 2022 10pm, see I'm only 9 weeks behind on my blogging! New Year's Resolution is to catch up. Plus I want to do my 'annual...

Happy New Year! Although it was 2022 when I started writing this, surrounded by interesting ales, Bucks Fizz (not the band), party...

My last tick of the 2022 Good Beer Guide was this, a WMC north of Poulton-le-F. Daddy BRAPA and I had travelled over in Mummy BRAPA's...

Last chance to tick my two remaining Central London pubs before the 2023 Good Beer Guide arrives, which by mid October, was surely...

The final chapter in my epic October week in Gwent / Mid Wales is here. Only 133 pubs to catch up on after this! Oh dear, even with my...

Pressing the bell to get off the number 60 bus, which was careering along the main road back to Newport like some maniacal demon bus from...

Having successfully negotiated three of Gwent's more isolated ticks, at Upper Llanover (BOOM!), Mamhilad (BOOM!) and Nant-y-Derry (SHAKE...