Saturday 7th December 2024 I'd never been stalked by a storm before, but any hopes I'd had of leaving Darragh in Wrexham 30 hours...

Thursday 5th December 12:30pm As the bus trundles on its interminable route from Chester to Parkgate, a prettier place than it sounds out...

Saturday 30th November 2024 Middlesbrough away today for Hull City, so the logical BRAPA day out took us to Congleton, obviously! Only...

Brappy New Year pub lovers! (Allo Allo style intro) You might wonder, why I am sat here, live from BRAPA Towers, brandishing a can of...

Thursday 28th November 2024 A trip across the Pennines for three ticks in Warrington on this icy morning in York. My first trip here...

Saturday 23rd November 2024 BRAPA F.C. are away at the London City Casuals, always a tough place to go and get a result. Daddy BRAPA...

Thursday 21st November 2024 Not a cloud in the bluest of blue skies on the iciest of icy mornings as I trundle up the line to...

Saturday 16th November, 11:57am A last minute decision to swerve off the heavy traffic on the A64 and into Malton meant we'd reversed...

Saturday 9th November 2024 Time to say adios to Oxfordshire, and head to London for a bonus day of pub ticking. I'd normally go home at...

Evening pop pickers / pub tickers / window lickers, Here we go. The moment all your hard work on this Tuesday (even though I'm writing...

Seven more pubs. All decent or actually good. Let's get straight into it ....... Crafty Pint, Witney Despite its atrocious frontage...

'Hidden Gems of Oxfordshire' is how A.I. wants me to approach this blog. Silly robot. Far too optimistic, although now that we've...

Welcome back you gluttons for pub punishment - PUBISHMENT! I suspect this next batch might be hard to make interesting, colourful or...

Greetings! This 'cat' might be playing a late lament for 2024, but cheer up mate, here at BRAPA Towers we are in jubilant mood after a...

My first serious foray into Oxon earlier this month yielded 32 ticks (well one was in Bucks but it is near enough to the border to be...

Saturday 2nd November 2024 A.I. suggests I call this blog "The Quirky Pub Culture of Yorkshire" which reassures me that I'm still...

Boo! Prepare to be terrified as I take you on a journey (probably in a hearse) around the new GBG pubs I visit at that thrilling time of...

Saturday 26th October 2024 Derbyshire had been kinder to me than most counties regarding the #CruelChurn of the 2025 Good Beer Guide, but...

Wednesday 23rd October 2024 Those pesky East Yorkshire CAMRA folk could not have chosen a more isolated pub for inclusion in the 2025...

Saturday 19th November Cheshire III was upon us, and with Audlem, Barnton and Bostock Green all safely tucked under my belt, 'Bollington'...