Sunday 31st August 2025 I didn't surface until 10am on Sunday morning, I needed the sleep having barely stopped since I arrived in...

The Maltmeister wagon chugs south from Henleaze to Bedminster, a Bristol 'burb perilously close to Ashton Gate, home of today's game...

Me, after the annual GBG cross-ticking I've been through the wringer last month I tell ya! A wringer of my own making, but still a...

Approaching 10pm, Friday night in Bristol, 29th August and I'm wondering if I can squeeze three ticks in before closing time. I'd...

Saturday 23rd August 2025 Back in those hazy glory days of 74% GBG completion and warm sunny weather, I decided to bravely go where...

It may've been a brutal churn again this year, but at least there were eleven occasions whilst I was cross-ticking the Good Beer Guide...

Thursday 25th September 2025 Good morning! The CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2026 is officially released today, meaning an end to the embargo...

Saturday 16th August 2025 Another country road with no footpath, another day in North Oxfordshire. After yesterday's outer Bicester...

Friday 15th August 2025 This is a lengthy one (that's what she said!) so apologies, pour yourself a stiff drink. Some BRAPA days really...

Happy (belated) September .... the best (& worst) month in the pub ticking calendar. If you follow me on what the kids probably call...

Thursday 14th August 2025 York to Banbury direct? Didn't even know it was possible. It made the usual Dross Country train journey that...

Saturday 9th August 2025 With an air of inevitability, I was back on the Dross Country trains sitting miles away from Daddy BRAPA despite...

Thursday 7th August 2025 "Wot, no hot chocolate?" #ThirstyThursdays are becoming more elaborate as we reach the business end of the pub...

Saturday 2nd August 2025 Blogging in the same month that I actually pubbed in? That's novel. I'm slowly catching up. But with a crazy...

Thursday 31st July 2025 In 2024, I fell one pub short of completing Derbyshire. That pub was the Bull's Head at Rosliston. I made a pact...

Saturday 26th July 2025 Ivor Panda had his Mummy BRAPA homemade cherry scone and Arctic coffee (WHEN WILL THEY SPONSOR ME?) , I was down...

Saturday 19th July 2025 Three 'gentle' summer Saturday's with Daddy BRAPA remain before the mayhem of the football season commences, and...

Thursday 17th July 2025 I'm on an early morning LNER heading north for my first Scottish ticks of the 2024/25 season. I keep forgetting...

Saturday 12th July 2025 It was all aboard the Severn Valley Railway on another scorchio summer Saturday down south, travelling in style...

Saturday 5th July 2025 Earlier release time today cos I'm off on 'dice night' in a few minutes having had no electricity all day........