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BRAPA IS .... BEACON DUE : A REAL GONE KID & LOSING MY DIGNITY AFTER A PINT OF SARAH HUGHES
Saturday 29th June, 14:25 I'm sure I labour over these blog titles longer than it takes me to write the damn things. So let us leave...

Si Everitt
Jul 23, 20244 min read
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BRAPA ..... A TICK IN BOTH GORNALS : WEST MIDS (PT 1/2)
Saturday 29th June 2024 South of Wolverhampton we go now, where a cute little clutch of six new pub ticks await. I love the West...

Si Everitt
Jul 22, 20245 min read
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BRAPA's AXHOLME PLOD (Four Drinks in Lincs)
Saturday 22nd June 2024 Fully recovered from Devon? You must be joking. I'd had 2.5 quiet days on the Berocca and cheese & cucumber...

Si Everitt
Jul 19, 20246 min read
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BRAPA - THE DEVON COUNTDOWN (PART 8/8 - PUBS 6-1 : KNOCKING ON DEVON'S DOORS)
6. Torbay Inn, Paignton Paignton might be the only place all holiday where I could hand on heart say 'isn't Ashford in Kent pretty?' but...

Si Everitt
Jul 17, 20246 min read
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BRAPA - THE DEVON COUNTDOWN (PART 7/8 - PUBS 13-7 : OOH DEVON IS A PLACE ON EARTH)
13. Fountain Head Inn, Branscombe An 85% certain Noel Edmonds cameo was not what I'd been expecting towards the end of my 40 minute...

Si Everitt
Jul 15, 20246 min read
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BRAPA - THE DEVON COUNTDOWN (PART 6/8 - PUBS 19-14 : THE VILLAGE STILLAGE)
It was only when I had finished reviewing this next six that I concluded what the intro should be (how confusingly back to front!) So you...

Si Everitt
Jul 11, 20247 min read
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BRAPA - THE DEVON COUNTDOWN (PART 5/8 - PUBS 25-20 : DRINKING WELL)
Things are really hotting up now as we visit six pubs which I wouldn't have to be dragged back to kicking and screaming. It'd be a waste...

Si Everitt
Jul 8, 20246 min read
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BRAPA - THE DEVON COUNTDOWN (PART 4/8 - PUBS 31-26 : A DECENT DROP)
Such is the quality of my recent clutch of Devon pubs that as early as part 4, I can honestly say 'pretty darn decent' about five of...

Si Everitt
Jul 5, 20246 min read
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BRAPA - THE DEVON COUNTDOWN (PART 3/8 - PUBS 37-32 : DRINKABLE)
A bit like any England Euro 2024 match so far, this next bunch 'get the job done' without really inspiring confidence. In fact, I...

Si Everitt
Jul 3, 20245 min read
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BRAPA MONTH END REVIEW (JUNE 2024)
Greetings friends of the BRAP. A joint record breaking liver-shattering month of 75 ticks moves me onto 2899 current Good Beer Guide...

Si Everitt
Jul 1, 20245 min read
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BRAPA .... THE DEVON COUNTDOWN (PART 2 of 8 : 'HAZY, NOT OFF' 43-38)
Welcome back! I feel like Father Ted at the Golden Clerics writing these reviews. "They were the pubs that really fecked me over, now we...

Si Everitt
Jun 28, 20246 min read
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BRAPA .... THE DEVON COUNTDOWN (PART 1 of 8 : THE DREGS 49-44)
49 Good Beer Guide pubs ticked off on my recent summer jaunt down to Devon, and I spent the train journey home ranking them in some kind...

Si Everitt
Jun 24, 20245 min read
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BRAPA ..... RUTLAND WEEKEND ALEVISION SPECIAL
When Daddy BRAPA wielded the green Staedtler (love you guys, please send me free pens) on the Plough, Greetham (2839 / 4999), it became...

Si Everitt
Jun 10, 20245 min read
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BRAPA : QUISH, QUASH, QUOSH - THAT'S HOW TO COMPLETE GREATER MANCHESTER
My fifth county completion of the 2024 GBG took me to the east side of GMR on a grey, breezy Wednesday afternoon, and deary me, Hyde...

Si Everitt
Jun 8, 20246 min read
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BRAPA : A LORRA HASLAND (TALES FROM OUTER CHESTERFIELD)
From the moment I first saw the Hasland entry in the 2024 GBG, I knew I'd have to visit just so I could shoehorn in a tribute to one of...

Si Everitt
Jun 4, 20248 min read
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BRAPA : ROYSTON AMAZEY (DESCENDING THE BROAD STAIRS DAHN TO MARGATE)
Is Ramsgate Kent's best pub town? Maidstone is surprisingly strong. That Deal/Walmer area is insanely good. Dover has flashes...

Si Everitt
Jun 2, 20245 min read
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BRAPA - MONTH END REVIEW MAY 2024
Hello friends of the pub, 47 ticks for the month of May keeps me on track for a record-breaking year, I am 1 whole pub ahead of where I...

Si Everitt
May 31, 20245 min read
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BRAPA .... RAMSGATE IN THE BINNO, TICKING WITH QUINNO
Saturday 25th May It was hard to believe that after my 2022/23 efforts around the coast of Kent that it'd possible to return to the...

Si Everitt
May 30, 20243 min read
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BRAPA in ..... NOTTS LANDING (Part 2/2)
Saturday 18th May 2024 We'd reached the halfway point on this Daddy BRAPA car day, and we leave Fernwood up past evil Newark along the...

Si Everitt
May 28, 20244 min read
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BRAPA .... GETS A TICK IN THE NETHER REGIONS : BROUGHT-ON AS A SUB (Pt 1/2)
The 2023/24 BRAPA season really has been a rare vintage for the East Midlands. Great progress in Northants, Lincs and Leics. Derbyshire...

Si Everitt
May 27, 20245 min read
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