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BRAPA in .... THE TAMING OF THE TAMESIDE : QUISH, QUASH, QUOSH, THAT'S YOUR LOT!
Saturday 24th May 2025 It was a tricky start to our latest BRAPA outing, crossing the Pennines in search of five pub ticks east of...

Si Everitt
Jun 107 min read
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BRAPA is .... THE PUB TICKER WITH THE PEARL EARRING (B/W KINDER SURMISE)
Sorry for the late release time, I fell asleep after work for far too long and Wales v Belgium has been distracting me. Thursday 22nd May...

Si Everitt
Jun 97 min read
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BRAPA in .... SMETHWICK GALTON BRIDGE MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK
Saturday 17th May 2025 The annual post-season outing was upon us, exploring the GBG pubs in that Stourbridge-Wolverhampton corridor with...

Si Everitt
Jun 78 min read
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BRAPA is .... SAFE AS (SEA)HOUSES (B/W HASSLE AT THE CASTLE)
Thursday 15th May 2025 I'd made it as far north as Low (& High) Newton-by-the-Sea on my last Northumbrian coastal jaunt, running out of...

Si Everitt
Jun 45 min read
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BRAPA is .... TYING HIMSELF IN NOTTS : THE DAWG THAT DIDN'T WOOF
10th May 2025 When I saw this peculiar mutt on the train to Nottingham, I say to Daddy BRAPA 'that's a good omen for one of our pubs...

Si Everitt
Jun 36 min read
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BRAPA .... MONTH END REVIEW : MAY 2025
Greetings pub lovers, 66 new Good Beer Guide pubs visited in the month of May, smashing the previous record of 55. It takes me up to...

Si Everitt
Jun 16 min read
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BRAPA in .... THERE'S NO SWERVING WORTHING : BIRTHDAY BOOZE BLUES (West Sussex Pt 7/7)
Tuesday 6th May 2025 46 years old! And I felt every inch of it on this, my seventh consecutive day of pub ticking down in West Sussex. ...

Si Everitt
May 307 min read
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BRAPA is ... AS SHOREHAM AS I'LL EVER BE : WEST SUSSEX PT. 6/7
Monday 5th May 2025 I say it every year ".....I'm not ticking on a Bank Holiday Monday, not worth it mate!" And fail. Not only is public...

Si Everitt
May 297 min read
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BRAPA is .... ABSOLUTELY HALNAKER'D : WEST SUSSEX PT 5/7
Sunday 4th May 2025 People who wish you a 'Happy Star Wars day' every May 4th need to be shot. It is important we get that straight from...

Si Everitt
May 278 min read
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BRAPA in ... ROMPY POMPEY - LEAGUE ONE? UP YOUR BUM! (WEST SUSSEX PART 4/7)
Saturday 3rd May 2025 The day of reckoning was beckoning as BRAPA took a temporary back seat with football taking over. I nervously...

Si Everitt
May 268 min read
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BRAPA .... RACE ACROSS THE PUBS : BY HOOKSWAY OR CROOKSWAY (WEST SUSSEX PT. 3/7)
Friday 2nd May 2025 Google Photos update .... good news, we have a "temporary workaround!" The two most popular words in the 'tech...

Si Everitt
May 219 min read
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BRAPA ..... NUTBOURNES IN MAY : WEST SUSSEX PT 2/7
Thursday 1st May 2025 I'd proved I could easily sweep up half a dozen Chichester pubs in a few hours, but the critics were posing more...

Si Everitt
May 197 min read
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BRAPA in .... THE SIX BEER CHICH(ESTER) : WEST SUSSEX PT 1/7
Wednesday 30th April 2025 With the exception of Somerset and Gloucestershire, I went into this seven day birthday ticking bonanza with...

Si Everitt
May 186 min read
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BRAPA ..... WALLY HULL IN SOLIHULL (NO CAULI ON THIS PUB JOLLY)
Google Photos update - still awaiting an email / callback from Wix Tech Support. As this next blog goes on, watch as I delve into the...

Si Everitt
May 167 min read
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BRAPA .... EASTER SUNDAY SPECIAL : JESUS IS RISEN, TELFORD IS A PRISON
Sunday 20th April 2025 My final day of this septic Easter epic would prove the tickiest yet, as I hop over the Shropshire border - a...

Si Everitt
May 138 min read
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BRAPA .... EASTER SATURDAY SPECIAL : JESUS IS RESTING, NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME IS TESTING
Welcome to another photo-less blog and apologies again. Convinced myself the problem is at their end having tried all their...

Si Everitt
May 116 min read
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BRAPA .... GOOD FRIDAY IN WOLVERHAMPTON : DID JESUS DIE FOR THIS?
First off, I'm having a Wix nightmare because I receive an error message when trying to add photos. No idea why. It was fine...

Si Everitt
May 97 min read
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BRAPA .... APRIL 2025 MONTH END REVIEW
Word up pub lovers, hope you've had a successful April. 61* (not out) Good Beer Guide ticks in the month (still one more day to come,...

Si Everitt
Apr 294 min read
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BRAPA .... SEPARATES THE WHEAT FROM THE STAFFS (A BIBLICAL PUB BLOG)
Wednesday 16th April 2025 'Why Staffordshire?' And if Staffordshire, why Stafford? Why not Stoke or Uttoxeter or somewhere where I had...

Si Everitt
Apr 276 min read
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BRAPA ALTERNATIVE BEER GUIDE PT 5 : BUCKS SPECIAL (ASTON CLINTON TO BOURNE END)
Good evening, weekend finally! I sometimes think these four day weeks after a Bank Holiday feel longer than a normal one. Anyway, ten...

Si Everitt
Apr 255 min read
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