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BRAPA - Resurrection in Runcorn
It was that time of year where a bearded man in sandals visits me in my sleep and tells me of the urgent need to go on a pilgrimage. "Where to this year, my lord?" I ask him, "Bethlehem? Nazareth?...
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BRAPA - Silent, Widnes
Even if Amanda Burton and Emelia Fox had both been on the Warrington - Liverpool Lime St train on Good Friday evening to perform an autopsy on a Widnes rugby fan, humility is not something they'd have...
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BRAPA - Who Dares(bury), wins(bury), (but not Bury)
I'd walked 20.43 miles on Good Friday, it really had been something of a pilgrimage. And my legs were like lead weights as I signed out of Warrington Travelodge ('the best travelodge in the land' if...
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BRAPA - A Study of Wigan : Terrifying but Strangely Brilliant
So just to re-cap from my previous blog. It was Saturday afternoon at the Travellers Rest in Lowton, Greater Manchester, and BRAPA debutant Pub Curmudgeon was just swigging off the last of his half of...
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BRAPA - March Review / April Preview (2018)
Holts Mild at the Lamb Hotel, Eccles. One of the highlights of March BRAPA.Better late than never, as I've already been on two April trips by the time I've finally got around to the review of March.We...
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BRAPA - Shifnal and I
Hull City's game with Wolverhampton Wanderers had been moved to the Tuesday night for absolutely no reason, so determined to still have a Bank Holiday Monday to enjoy, me, Tom and Dad booked ourselves...
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BRAPA - Cambridgeshire Beginnings : Love Ashley (Part 1/2)
Reasons to be cheerful that I was about to start 'officially' pub ticking Cambridgeshire as the BRAPA challenge enters year 5?How about, "it is NOT Buckinghamshire". Will that do?Joking, of course...
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BRAPA - Getting Those Ely Feelies (Part 2/2)
So, the day was going well. In a sense. I suppose you could say that having the whole of Cambridgeshire's pub scene staring you in the face had been so intimidating, I'd spent most of the day lurking...
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BRAPA - Tutbury Hassle, Downward Dog
Pub ticking at the Dog Inn, Burton on Trent'What percentage of micropubs in the UK are open on a drizzly grey Tuesday lunchtime?' I wondered, as I arrived in the Staffordshire town of Tutbury ahead of...
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BRAPA - Partying Hard Like Richard Burton
So, I was halfway through my Tuesday pub crawl before Hull City's probable embarrassing defeat at Burton Albion, the worst team in the division unless you count Sunderland which you shouldn't cos I...
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BRAPA - If the Twild is United (Sandbach to Winsford)
Cheshire loomed large for the umpteenth time in BRAPA history as I looked to chalk off a few more to bring us down into single figures.Eleven to go at the start of playThe blog title is a nod to fellow...
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BRAPA - Heaton Flops & Another Cheshire Tale of Woe
Just to re-cap from my previous blog, it was mid afternoon last Saturday and I'd just 'enjoyed' a productive first three pubs of the day, one in Sandbach and two in Winsford.The fact that I'd enjoyed...
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BRAPA - Evil-Lymm and Salford Skeletor : Manchester Punk Festival Part 1 of 3
When I booked my tickets for Manchester Punk Festival back in December, I thought how nice it would be to forget about silly new pubs altogether and simply relax with three days of deafening music...
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BRAPA - Loosely Worsley : Manchester Punk Festival Part 2
The two pubs I had planned for Friday morning both seemed to be on the fringes of the 'pretty village' of Worsley itself, so you could say they were 'loosely Worsley'. Lucy Worsley is a quirky...
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BRAPA - A Nice Little Urmston : Manchester Punk Festival Day 3 of 3
I'm officially getting old. Day three of the punk festival. I'd not seen many bands, stayed in the comfort of a Premier Inn, paced myself, and yet I was still feeling that 'final day of the fest'...
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BRAPA - Walking the Wirraly Way (Part 1/2)
Saturday then, and time to add to my April pub haul of 28 for a final time. It was also chance to put another nail in that Cheshire coffin, my 5th last pub to visit in this year's Good Beer Guide.York...
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BRAPA - Walking the Wirraly Way (Part 2/2)
I ended up walking a grand total of 15.8 miles on Saturday. Okay, I can hear you now "what do you want Si, a medal?" Well yes actually, I do my pub ticking for YOU and you alone. Probably.And the...
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BRAPA - April Review / May Preview (2018)
I think from the moment I stepped inside April's first pub, the White Hart in Shifnal at 11:55am on a rainy Bank Holiday Monday, I knew it was going to be a special month. 34 pubs were done, meaning...
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BRAPA - Standish Club to Waterloo Tap : A BRAPA Birthday Bonanza (Part 1 of 4)
The long warm Bank Holiday weekend started in the last place you'd have expected me to book after last month's horror show at the Royal Oak, as I returned to Wigan.After checking into a particularly...
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BRAPA - Standish Club to Waterloo Tap : A BRAPA Birthday Bonanza (Part 2 of 4)
Barmy and balmy. That's how you could describe Wigan at 9pm on Friday 4th May. Standish had been a success, but I felt it'd be back in Wigan where I'd need to show my true BRAPA mettle. After all,...
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