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BRAPA - Chauffeur Wars : Megan v Martin : Who Drove it Best? Sandal to...
Name a more iconic chauffeuring duo This latest BRAPA tale begins at 4:30pm on Friday evening when after the LONGEST week at work ever (yes, I do occasionally work a full five day week!), the time had...
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BRAPA - Life's a Wisbech / A Glatton for Punishment / Ramsey Treat / No Votes...
Okay, so not too sure about my pose for this one, but after a delightful experience in Leverington, a quirky stance in Wisbech probably reflected my mood as I prepared to push that mysterious red door...
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BRAPA : The Archives 2019 Part 2/2 (York, Leeds, Carlisle & London)
This vintage edition allowed me to get Town Hall Tavern in L**ds ticked offFive more pubs I visited either before I realised what BRAPA was going to become(!), or I just didn't believe they'd ever get...
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BRAPA - Always Take the Wetherby With You
My BRAPA debut in Wetherby was finally here. Bit of a strange one, as it isn't one of these Yorkshire towns that no-one has heard of. It has a racecourse, it has a river, it has a #PubMan, it has a...
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BRAPA - Harrogate, still as Harrowing as Ever
"SHIT, THANK SHIT FOR THAT!"Â I didn't mean to say it quite so loudly, but as the delayed bus finally swung around the corner to take us from Wetherby to Harrogate, it just came out, much to the...
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BRAPA - To Boldmere Go Where No Pubman Has Gone Before : Trekking in the West...
As so often seems to be the case on a Championship away day, we were back in the West Midlands, home to all those football teams who you could never call 'very good', but aren't bad enough to be called...
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BRAPA - Disposable Camera, Not Disposable CAMRA : Darton to Mapplewell
Friday morning, the train to work, and like a total idiot, I'd put my phone into my wrong bag and didn't have it with me. "Oh well, that is Friday night BRAPA cancelled" I reflected. But hang on, I...
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BRAPA - Paint it Black(Bern's Birthday BRAPA Bonanza) Pt 1/2
The Northern Rail strikes have never been kinder to me from a pub perspective. Father Bernard BRAPA Everitt thought we should go to watch Hull City's away fixture at Blackburn Rovers (after our recent...
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BRAPA - Paint it Black(Bern's Birthday BRAPA Bonanza) Pt 2/2
Arriving at Hare & HoundsI love those pubs which are situated in the most unlikely places. And by that, I don't mean nestled in a wooded valley, 'twixt trout stream and old grain mill, or stood...
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BRAPA - January Review / February Preview (2019 Edition) / Disposable Camera...
Jan ReviewThe transfer window slams shut on another cold and lengthy January, never the most productive or pleasant month for BRAPA and in truth I'm welcoming Feb with open arms!As so often happens on...
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BRAPA - I Smell a Rat : Back in the Thack(ley)
'You're never more than six feet away from a rat' they say, though apparently (according to Dr Google), 164 ft is a better estimate. But in Thackley, that West Yorkshire village between Bradford, Idle...
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BRAPA - Stand Your Ground in Stanground : Completing Cambs
So, the day of reckoning was finally here. The day when I could complete the pub ticking of Cambridgeshire for the first time, allowing me the chance to move onto somewhere equally exciting such as...
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BRAPA - North London After Party : 'Spoons to the Fore as Arnos Bores
Arsenal graffiti or a diarrhoea based comment? Or is it all the same thing?With a smile on my face as broad as a smug Bristol Rovers fan, I headed back into Kings Cross for some evening pub ticking,...
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BRAPA - Those Hazy Crazy Nights of Paisley
I think it was modern day Oscar Wilde impersonator Ariana Grande who summed it up best in her Pub Ticking anthem "thank u, next", that you can't afford to wallow in your recent successes or mistakes...
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BRAPA - Back in Dorset Part 1/10 : Poole-igans and Boot Boys
A good pub to start the hols (Poole Arms, Poole)After the success of last October in west Dorset, I thought it'd be a good idea to start on the comparatively easier to navigate east of the county for...
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BRAPA - Back in Dorset Part 2/10 : Passion of the Christchurch / Parley Vous...
So where was I? (Actually a question I was constantly asking myself during this five day pub ticking jaunt down in the east of Dorset). Ah yes, half way through day one, and a bit scarred by Six...
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BRAPA - Back in Dorset (Part 3/10) : Bourne Identity (or lack of it)
'Twas Sunday, day two of my five day stay in the county of Dorset as I aimed to visit 30 pubs which would be a BRAPA record on one away jaunt. As I jumped on the bus out of West Parley, I was smiling...
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BRAPA - Back in Dorset Part 4/10 : Parkstone & Recreation
Martin the Owl, embarrassed on my behalf in the Poole Ex Serviceman's ClubI was four pubs through my second day of the BRAPA Winter Festival 2019 in the lovely county of Dorset, though perhaps...
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BRAPA - Back in Dorset Part 5/10 : Donald, Where's Ma'travers?
This way to the WorthOch aye! Day three of my holiday and it was always going to be the Isle of Purbeck. Feeling a bit stifled by Bournemouth & Poole, I wanted more of that fresh air and freedom...
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BRAPA - Back in Dorset Part 6/10 : Beware(ham) of the Frogs
'It's not easy being green', said my highlighter pen halfway through day three of my Dorset adventure, what had so far been a fantastic trip around the Isle of Purbeck.  I was approaching an amazing...
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