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BRAPA in ..... STAINES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES (Part 11/17)
As a pub ticker, it is important to be able to 'read the room' as you travel the length and breadth of the country to lands you have little hope of understanding. You can only be respectful of local...
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BRAPA and ..... A WRAY OF SUNSHINE (Surrey Part 12/17)
If you were with me for Part 11 (you poor thing), you'll know that Part 12 begins with me in a taxi driven by a rather unconvincing old codger with little idea of where Dunsfold was, though I did keep...
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BRAPA in ...... I CHURT MYSELF TODAY (Surrey Part 13/17)
Friday was scorchio, peaking at 33 degrees, which wasn't really fair considering it turned out to be one of the most physically taxing days of my holiday. Mileage wise, I didn't seem to be straying...
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BRAPA in ..... UP THE ALE IN UPPER HALE (Part 14/17)
I was all ready to declare myself well and truly beaten on a disappointing four pub effort, as I trudged uphill back towards Farnham station, late afternoon on Friday 31st July.The extreme heat was...
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BRAPA - JULY REVIEW / AUGUST PREVIEW (2020)
Better late than never eh? Even if it is nearly September.As we've made it to the end of July in my 'Surrey Holiday' blogs, I thought tonight we'd break off briefly to have a quick look back at July...
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BRAPA in ...... SON OF DORK(ING), My Ticket Outta Loserville (Surrey Part 15/17)
Saturday August 1st and I'd finally hit an invisible wall, suggesting that in the future, seven days consecutive Brapping is probably the maximum I should try and attempt! Day 8 of 9 today.Still, the...
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BRAPA in ...... EPSOM ASSAULTS (Surrey Part 16/17)
 'Is he STILL writing about Surrey?'  Fear not dear reader, if you can prove you have read every part by answering a complex multiple choice question correctly, you will be entitled to a free BRAPA...
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BRAPA is ...... SURREY ABOUT THE BONUS EXTRA BLOG
And when I say 'bonus extra blog', what I mean to say is that, having told you all along that was a 17-parter, I'm not going to suddenly admit to you that I miscounted and it should've been 18...
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BRAPA in ...... HERSHAM POISE (Surrey Part 17/17)
Apologies if you noticed (you probably didn't) but I 'released' my 'Bonus Extras' blog too soon when actually, I'd done these three pubs earlier in the day. Anyway, it's all just me rambling about...
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BRAPA is in ...... CROYDON : TOOK PROBLEM CAULI, TO THE BOXPARK MICRO
Annoyed on the train down because three Geordie twenty somethings had obviously decided mask-wearing wasn't for them. I can't believe they all had hidden disabilities, unless being from Newcastle fits...
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BRAPA says ..... "LET ME BRAP 'EM IN CLAPHAM (JUNCTION)"
Evening all, having a bit of a BRAPA 'mare as I came back from my Bank Holiday jaunt down south to find my laptop totally broken, the one which contains by 'Master BRAPA spreadsheet'. I have it...
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BRAPA in ...... AUGUST THRILL AT FOREST HILL (YOU, ME AND SE23)
 It might not be the most striking photo of the Grade II Art-Deco former cinema that is Capitol, Forest Hill (1816) but so determined was I to finally overtake the group of six I'd followed all the way...
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BRAPA and ..... BROCCOLI WINS IN SE4
 After my rubbish photo attempt outside today's other Wetherspoons, Capitol in Forest Hill, I made a slightly better fist of Brockley Barge, Brockley (pub 1819) which was probably such a nice looking...
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BRAPA in ..... TAKE A CHANCERY ON ME (Aug Bank Hol Pt 1/6)
August Bank Holiday weekend started a day early in BRAPA-land, as I booked the Friday off work for three nights down in London for more South Eastern pub ticking, my new modus operandi, since 4th...
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BRAPA ..... THINKS FONDLY OF COMELY BROMLEY (Aug Bank Hol Pt 2/6)
 "Cor ..... incredible, what a place chief! Quite remarkable."  Not my words, but those of short-suffering BRAPA mascot Colin the Cauliflower when I turned to him a few minutes ago and asked him about...
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BRAPA in ..... THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GODSTONE GO I (Part 3/6)
The good thing about the current Travelodge regulations of 'not trying to clean your room until your stay is over' is that you can accidentally snooze your alarm for an hour (like I did on Saturday...
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BRAPA ..... OH J.C. , WHERE'S MY TONBRIDGE MEM'RY?? (Pt 4/6)
Isn't Twitter a funny thing? I'd not even decided myself that I would tackle the four GBG ticks in Tonbridge (my Kentish BRAPA debut) when a guy, he didn't follow me, I didn't follow him, contacted me...
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BRAPA in .... HAMPTON OF THE (H)OPERA (Pt 5/6 Aug Bank Hol Special)
Sunday morning, my last of three days August Bank Holiday daaarn saaarf, as I look to make up some pub-ticking ground on those months lost circa mid March-early July, before the new GBG drops through...
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BRAPA ...... THE SOUND OF THE SURBITON (Aug Bank Hol Pt 6/6)
Into the death throes of my August Bank Holiday pub ticking extravaganza, and after two great pubs and one terrible one in the Hamptons, three more were needed to take me up to a pleasing eighteen for...
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BRAPA AUGUST REVIEW / SEPTEMBER PREVIEW (2020)
Hello all!August began with me leaning on a disused phonebox in a rural Surrey village ........... and it ended in a rather drab Antic in the Docklands ........40 new GBG ticks for the month, and a...
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