A sparse spartan ice block of a micro can still achieve a positive BRAPA review, providing the beer is 5/5 and the owner is as brilliant...

Thursday 18th January 2024 The way the train guy announces it, just shy of Newton-le-Willows, we are in dire straits. Totally Knopfler'd....

Saturday 13th January 2024, 2:27pm Awkward Heswall had been negotiated, the two greasy Greasby ticks complete and it is not even 2:30pm...

Saturday 13th January 2024 When this little fella appeared on my balcony and stared in at me a few weeks back, he seemed to be trying to...

Thursday 11th January 2024 BANG BANG BANG! Don't worry, it ain't the sound of gunshots raining out over an estate pub car park (when will...

Saturday 6th January 2024, 12:26pm A chilly bus stop in Southport was the unlikely launch pad for 2024 BRAPA pub ticking. Merseyside is...

Saturday 30th December, 10:42am I'm not really 'feeling'' Leicestershire as a pub ticking county yet. Maybe I need to grab it by the...

Saturday 23rd December, 10:41am As Daddy BRAPA fills up with petrol at the Wensleydale Garage & Shop (no dog waste, no nappies), I sit...

Sunday 17th December, 2:39pm A rare BRAPA Sunday outing as I'd been at my first Bottomless Brunch the previous day in L**ds. Notable for...

HAPPY NEW YEAR live from BRAPA Towers in York ........ It is time to take a month by month look back at the pubs and counties which made...

Wednesday 13th December 2023, 4:30pm Two weeks ago today, I gave BRAPA Hull City mascot, and natural successor to Keane Lewis Otter and...

Saturday 9th December 2023, 7am Drama at BRAPA Towers early on Saturday morning. I'd been waiting for Daddy BRAPA to arrive by car and...

Thursday 7th December 2023, 1:03pm It takes some extreme conditions to have me thinking 'was it such a good idea to venture outside...

Saturday 2nd December 9:33am Greetings from an arctic Derby on the first Saturday in December. Leicestershire had been the plan, but an...

I'm having a real push to get my blogs up to date, I've been a month behind for far too long and I'm thinking by Mid January, in the...

Saturday 25th November 10:59am A second BRAPA trip in four months to the generous pub town of Stourbridge was the latest step towards a...

Thursday 23rd November 2023, 2pm It was with a genuine sense of trepidation that I embarked on this difficult leg of my DuMuP (Durham Mop...

Saturday 18th November 2023, 12:08pm Daddy BRAPA Lincolnshire Car Day. Are there five happier words in the English language? Those days...

Saturday 11th November, 11:59am Lurking on a splintery bench in a sunny sleepy churchyard, crows cawing high above, you find BRAPA and...

Friday 10th November 12:35pm Ribbit! All aboard the Village Hopper on the penultimate day of my time in Northamptonshire, a county that...