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Wine, Westerns, Wotsits (Staying In) #WWWSI

Drinking Red Wine, Watching Westerns, Eating Wotsits, Rolling Dice.  

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WEEK 26 - GREED (1924)

As freezing fog wrapped its icy tendrils around the Vale of York on a classically bleak mid January afternoon, only one thing could lift...

WEEK 25 (PART 2/2) - SEVEN MEN FROM NOW

Sunday evenings have rarely been better. Off work on the Monday. Suddenly the Antiques Roadshow theme tune seems less threatening. Add...

WEEK 25 (Part 1 of 2) - DESTRY RIDES AGAIN

INTRO / EXPERIMENT 1 To celebrate the quarter way point of our Wine, Wotsits, Western Adventure (well, if I hadn't recently added ten new...

WEEK 23 - WINCHESTER '73

Did somebody say Just Eat? Yes, it was time to drag myself kicking and screaming into the 21st century world of online takeaway food...

WEEK 22 - HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER

Yeehaw, saddle on up, get the bar-keep to pour you a couple of fingers of Sarsaparilla and help me relive the tale of Week 22 of my epic...

WEEK 21 - THE OX-BOW INCIDENT

I'd like to start on a rare sincere note whilst I'm in whimsical mood, and let you all know what a tonic this #WWWSI venture has been in...

WEEK 18 - BEND OF THE RIVER

With the November shuttage of pubbage, #WWWSI was brought forward from the traditional Sunday evening slot to the more anti-social yet...

WEEK 17 - DANCES WITH WOLVES

The #WWWSI stars seemed to align for this Hallowe'en Special as tonight's film, the supposed 32nd greatest Western of all time, fitted in...

WEEK 16 - APPALOOSA

If like me, the gentle strains of Antiques Roadshow, Countryfile and Songs of Praise are so synonymous with a Sunday afternoon/evening,...

WEEK 15 - THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE

Excitement was rife at Wotsit Towers (the rebranded BRAPA towers) last Sunday evening, as the dice rolling to decide on this week's...

WEEK 13 - GIANT

It was time for a #WWWSI night for the first time in over three weeks. The truth is, what with the pubs reopen and the British Real Ale...

WEEK 12 - TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER

"Mad as a bag of spiders" sums it up pretty nicely really. The fact I had to get this second hand on DVD shows what a cult classic it...

WEEK 11, PART TWO - THE REVENANT

Like a more gruesome modern day Jeremiah Johnson, The Revenant was my second film in two nights back in mid August, because I didn't want...

WEEK 11 PART ONE, THE SHOOTIST

BRAPA* is broken** at the moment so this is an opportune moment to catch up on my latest edition of Wine, Westerns & Wotsits. If you’ve...

WEEK 8 - MCCABE & MRS MILLER

Google “Wine, Wotsits, Westerns” and the only page that will come up other than this WWWSI thing is a 2006 message board, where people...

WEEK 4 - A FEW DOLLARS MORE

PERFECT PREPARATION? Four weeks into this #WWWSI Challenge to watch Westerns, drink red wine and consume Wotists, and I'd like to think...

WEEK 3 - NEAR DARK

Sunday 14th June, 6pm, and it was time to watch a Western, drink some Wine and eat some Wotsits for a third week.......... Perfect...

WEEK 1 - BONE TOMAHAWK

8pm, Sunday 31st May, and I was all ready for the first week of this #WWWSI extravaganza. 'Twas a much later start than I'd intended, as...

WWWSI - Introduction & 'Rules of the Game'

This interminable lockdown, my failing sanity and an inability to 'get to the pub' at present has led me down this unlikely dusty road,...

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