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BRAPA in ..... My Achey Breaky Hartshorne (Part 1 of 3)
Crunch time in the BRAPA Derbyshire quest, with only EIGHT GBG pubs to go at the start of play, five on my radar for today.All were in difficult(ish) locations, nearly all had 'creative' opening times...
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BRAPA in ...... Surely Bassey? (South Derbyshire Pt 2/3)
So here I was, BRAPfinger, the pub ticker with the Midas touch, striding out on the afternoon of Saturday 20th July, from the excellent Brickmakers in Newton Solney to a bus stop in Burton Upon Trent,...
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BRAPA has .... Gone For a Burton (like, REALLY Gone!)
No words are really needed for the third and final leg of pubbing on Sat 20th July 2019. I could just show you this photo, with no caption required ...........But I've got to at least try to do...
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BRAPA in ...... Staly-bridge over the River Die
Two and half years since my last visit to Stalybridge, and the two Good Beer Guide entries which made the 2018 edition had 'stood the test of time' to remain in the 2019 edition, so I felt it was high...
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BRAPA - AUGUST PREVIEW / JULY REVIEW (2019) : The Business End of the Season
Thanks to M.Lawrenson for this :)AUGUST PREVIEW & SQUEAKY BUM TIMEHi! Just as the English football season is starting this weekend, we are approaching end point 'squeaky bum time' in the world of...
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BRAPA - Do the Newark of Life (I'm in Dire Straits By the End)
For the fifth summer in a row, it was time to take friends from work on a BRAPA adventure and this year we opted for Newark-on-Trent, a town I'd visited with my Dad in 2013 but it had three new pub...
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BRAPA is ...... Not Posh n' Bex-leyheath : SE London 1 of 4
It had been on my radar for quite some time. I hoped that my hilarious anal sex / deliberate cricket misunderstanding joke would be loved by Twitter, as I hovered outside the slightly perilous Wrong...
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BRAPA in ...... The Wheels on the London Bus Go Round & Round : SE London 2/4
Halfway through my first of two days in South East London, and with Bexleyheath completed and me 'nicely' checked in to my tiny Travelodge in Sidcup, it was time for a BRAPA first .....Get on a London...
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BRAPA's Theory of Evolution : Downe to Chislehurst (SE London 3/4)
London eh? What a lav-er-ly place! Not really of course. As a northerner, I obviously find it bewildering, noisy and strange.It is also the main part of the country that makes me think 'does the GBG...
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BRAPA in ..... Trash in the Antic (South East London Pt 4/4)
No trip to South East London would be complete without a visit to a new Antic pub, that burgeoning chain of local pubs so formulaic in their attempted quirkiness, I can't help but smile inwardly...
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BRAPA in .... Long Eaton is Cheatin' / Sawley Tempted
Three pubs left to go in Derbyshire as I arrived with Father BRAPA on the sunny, breezy morning of 3rd August 2019 for the 'grand finale'. Anticipation was in the air. But typically of this superb...
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BRAPA in ..... Notts Landing (Tyred & Emotion-ale)
Derbyshire? Completed it mate! Time to move into a far superior county (only joking, Notts folk are generally ('til today) a bit peculiar in comparison to their Derbys counterparts, and don't go...
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BRAPA is ..... Going Posh with Quosh Before I Get Sloshed (Part 1 of 2)
Lydgate. You've never heard of it, don't pretend you have. It is like Dukinfield. But only because you've never heard of that either. No ..... no .... don't lie please, or this is going to be a...
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BRAPA and ...... "Chris Dyson Seems Like a Very Long Time Ago" (Part 2/2)
So where we? Greenfield actually, climbing up one of the steepest inclines in BRAPA history in the Quoshmobile with our genial host Quosh, and his long standing buddy, Chris Moran.We'd said farewell...
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BRAPA and ..... The State of Modern Football (Tales from Bury)
'Alreet pet, should I give it five mins?'Not going to lie, I was still a bit bewildered from the crazy Friday night in Stalybridge & co when I arrived at a rain soaked 'Bury Interchange' ("all your...
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BRAPA and ..... the Dungeon Master of Tottington
I'd seen off the threat of Bury, and was mid way through the afternoon of Saturday 10th August, I left all the Manchester City VAR insanity behind me in the excellent Lamb in Woolford.  I worked out I...
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BRAPA and ...... the Buzzy Bees of Brentford (Twickenham / St Margarets)
Back in the early 19th century, there was this town west of London called Wickenham. Not much happened. Men drank bitter. People kicked around a pig's bladder. But then one day, a man picked up the...
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BRAPA in ..... Epic Fail at the 'Sworth / Side Burnage
There were various reasons to be 'beerful' on a rare BRAPA Tuesday outing. It was pay day. Dad having 'fun' at Hull City v Blackburn without me. I was feeling well again after my back pains last...
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BRAPA in ..... You, Me and the GBG : The Privilege Years
Scottish legends highlighting my 2019 GBGThe pub ticker equivalent of Christmas Day is almost upon us ..... yes, that day when the Good Beer Guide is pushed through the tight letterbox, a bit like the...
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BRAPA in .... Travels With My Tand : Stuck in the Middle-ton With You
Another Friday night pub ticking in Greater Manchester, and it was time for a highly anticipated trip that I'd been planning in my head for at least three years, Middleton with a twist of...
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