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BRAPA - Over t'hills to New Mills / The Sweet Taste of Marple Syrup
Jaded, shattered, broken, exhausted, emotional, defeated both physically and mentally.No, I'm not talking about a L**ds United fan leaving Elland Road tonight, I'm talking about myself by 4pm last...
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BRAPA - ..... and the Oscar for Dullest Micropub goes to .......
Thursday evening after work, and I was meeting West Sussex Twitter legend, a man with an anecdote for every aspect of life, and general Protz-botherer, John DepecheModem. After a few lame ducks last...
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BRAPA - Mansfield Peers (Part 1 of 2)
I was down in Mansfield on Saturday with my 'York mates' (as I've never referred to them before, just sounds like a cheap brand of condom really). We try and visit the York pubs every Thursday, but...
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BRAPA - Mansfield Peers : Baldies, Dogs & Delayed Trains (Part 2)
Halfway through our Notts day and having completed lovely Mansfield, it was time to spread our wings to brave new lands. Those brave new lands' were Sutton-in-Ashfield, and Krzb, today's chief...
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BRAPA - 'I Saw the Crescent, Martin Drank a Pint of Half Moon'
The Waterboys eh? Not really punk. Not really snarling Poguesy Irish style stuff. Well, not in this one song I know by them (they're probably speedcore Shane McGowan on acid normally), but every...
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BRAPA - Dogs v Bread & Dripping - Tales from Dronfield & Hoyland Common
You can never judge a pub by its cover. I should've learned this by now but sometimes, you can't help but have a prejudiced view of which pub you think you are going to prefer before you set out.On...
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BRAPA : Dolly Peel and the Bank Holiday Ordeal (Part 1 of 2)
Bank Holiday Monday must be the hardest type of day in the year for the humble pub ticker. I'm not even talking transport, as you've got to expect buses not to run and trains to be on a 'Sunday...
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BRAPA - Tales from the Tyne (Part 2 of 2)
As I continued in my quest to find pubs open on Bank Holiday Monday, a sign took me down a cobbled bank towards the River Tyne, just behind the Gateshead International Stadium, where I once saw Hull...
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BRAPA - May Review / June Preview (2019)
29 new Good Beer Guide pubs visited in the month of May is quite a modest total by recent standards, but for one reason or another, I never do that well out of May despite 31 days and double Bank...
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BRAPA - Wardlow Inspires, Crowded-cote and Chel-bore-ton : Derbyshire Days
"I don't think it is open" observes Dad, as we pull into a car park opposite Three Stags' Heads, Wardlow Mires (pub 1632 / 2601) on one the craziest main roads in rural Derbyshire. "It.... it .... must...
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BRAPA - Putting the Hurl in Thurlstone - BRAPA Schoolboy Errors.
It was Saturday 1st June, and three pubs in, Father BRAPA and I were able to observe that the quality of pubs was steadily declining. True, hard for any pub to be a step up from Three Stags' Heads at...
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BRAPA - Go Frith and Multiply : Battle to the Chapel
Looks easy on paper doesn't it?Just one pub needed to finish 'greening up' North Derbyshire, but it wasn't going to come quietly. No, it was going to throw the pub equivalent of a twantrum (twild...
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BRAPA - Johnny Rawtenstall : Never Mind the Weather, Here's The Pub (Pt 1/2)
Last Saturday, Dad drove me around rural Derbyshire, dodging cyclists, potholes and sheep, taking in such delights as Wardlow Mires, Crowdecote and Litton, to help me achieve my pubby aims. So this...
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BRAPA - Not imPrest(wich) but Ramsbottom Majors in Pub Science
Halfway through a Saturday straddling that imaginary border between East Lancs and North Greater Manchester, as Dad and I left the varied Rostron Arms in Edenfield on our way back to Irwell Vale...
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BRAPA - Cornwall Pt 1 : Luxulyan Luxury / Leave Those Clomes Alone
With thanks to M.Lawrenson of Preston'Twas time for my third year of Cornwall BRAPA. A whole seven days booked this time, trying to learn my lessons from last year where I did five days in Cornwall,...
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BRAPA in ..... Lost in Lostwithiel (Cornwall Part 2)
It was about an hours walk from Luxulyan to Lanlivery, where I had one of those pubs with no train or bus symbol so this was probably going to be my best shot at getting to it.The winding country lanes...
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BRAPA and ...... The Yeast of Bodmin (Cornwall Part 3)
Having learned that a Hull City-esque home crowd of 9,207 people lived in Bodmin in 1971 (see part 2), it was time to add one to the current tally of (14,736 - avg Hull City home crowd according to our...
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BRAPA and ..... The Bear Faced Cheek of Wadebridge (Cornwall Part 4)
After a quite sedate enjoyable time in Bodmin, the anger levels started to rise as I left the town.Bus drivers can be thick can't they?"Single to Edmonton please""Huh?""Look I know you don't go right...
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BRAPA and ......... the Unseen Crystal Ball of Pendeen (Cornwall Part 5)
Day three of my third year in Cornwall and it was time to head west and fill in some of the remaining gaps that had appeared since the last time I was down here, and unless you count the Isles of...
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BRAPA and ..... Man Bantz in Penzantz (Cornwall Part 6)
Day Three of my Cornwall holiday had so far been as painfully slow as my ability to write up the events since.It was two weeks ago when I highlighted Pendeen and Ludgvan more with relief than joy, and...
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