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BRAPA in ..... THAT'S SO CRAVEN : More from The Ruge, Great Wyrley and Brum
With Cannock ticked off, I took the train back to Rugeley where, if you cast your mind back to part one, I'd already done the fantastic Plaza 'Spoons earlier but had failed to notice one of the other...
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BRAPA is ..... LIKE A BAT OUT OF HULL (EAST YORKS WILL BE TICKED WHEN THE...
The Thirsty Thursday plan was simple on paper.  An early start, tick off my remaining two East Yorkshire pubs by mid afternoon. Back in York for teatime for a bit of cooking, cleaning and blog...
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BRAPA in ..... TWEE TOWNS 2030 & GOOD FOOD GUIDES (THE FUTURE of BRAPA?) :...
When the #BRAPA's Top Twee Towns Guide is published in 2030, Helmsley has got to be a contender for a top 20 place.In the two minute walk between pay & display carpark and pub, there was a...
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BRAPA ..... MONTH END REVIEW (JANUARY 2022 DEADLINE DAY SPECIAL)
It started in a Shipwrecked hungover Brewhouse in Cleveleys at 11:30am on New Year's Day ......Col obscures Jane's debut tick..... and it ended in a tiny side room in Burton's Weighbridge Inn trying to...
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BRAPA in .... PRE-EMPTIVE, INVENTIVE AND PREVENTITVE (Wobbly Wednesday With...
The origins of last week's unusual 'Wobbly Wednesday' trip had its roots in the Pub Tickers Whatsapp group, where six tickers all more successful than me compare notes, opening times, give pre-emptive...
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BRAPA in ..... NEED(WOOD) - More Laffs from Staffs (Part 1/2 : Outer Burton)
 'Donate just £1 and disadvantaged pub tickers like Simon will be able to afford enough green Stabilo highlighters to keep them ticking for an entire year'. I was back in Burton on (upon? above?)...
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BRAPA is ..... BURSTIN' IN BURTON (Staffs Pt 2/2)
With Alrewas and Barton-under-Needwood safely greened off (the first two alphabetical GBG pubs in Staffordshire too, which makes me happy), it was time to take the bus back into Burton for the...
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BRAPA is the ....... WHITBY ALER
Thirsty Thursday's were about to ramped up to 'peak thirsty' in my quest to get North Yorkshire fully greened off for only the second time in BRAPA's 7.75 year existence.  With eleven pubs left to...
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BRAPA is in ..... A WELFARE STATE : SCARBOROUGH NIGHTS, SOUTHERN MORNINGS
Welcome back. And if you joined us for the previous episode, you'll know that I was on a long bumpy bus ride back to Scarborough on a dark wintry evening, having ticked off four of the best/worst in...
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SGT. BRAPA'S ONLY HERTS CLUB, BANNED? (Latest from Hertfordshire Pt 2/2)
It had been a promising start to southern 2022 pub ticking, with Stoke Newington 'Spoons and Benington both receiving their BRAPA gold stars. But as 17th century pub ticker Issac Newton said, what...
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BRAPA in ...... ALL THE INGLE(TON) LADIES : PUTTING A RING ON NORTH YORKSHIRE
With my ticking of North Yorkshire nearing completion, this was the final time I'd be able to tackle it alone on a Thirsty Thursday â„¢ before I'm forced to say 'Daaaad, can you drive me to X, Y & Z...
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BRAPA is ..... LATE IN BUZZARD (Cross Border Ticking in Herts & Beds)
I couldn't settle on a blog title for this one.  'Hemmed in at Hemel' sort of worked, as I did feel hemmed in early doors, but it feels a more Tayloresquian than BRAPensian title.'If you've got it,...
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BRAPA in .... FRAM 69 : CAULIS WITH DIRTY FACES
 As I stepped off the bus in Kip Hill, a little town just north of Stanley, I realised that I was 'between two storms'. Dudley, which had battered us overnight, was easing off. Eunice was yet to...
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BRAPA is ..... SUFFERING IN SUFFOLK : THE DIFFICULT FIRST HALF (PART 1 OF 2)
Some pub ticking days, everything feels a struggle. Transport, weather, the pubs themselves.  A good sense of humour and a sense of fortitude are required to get you through, you take the 'little...
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BRAPA in ..... SUFFOLK WILL SUFFICE : SECOND HALF RECOVERY (PART 2 OF 2)
If you read part one, you might be aware that I wasn't having a lovely time in Suffolk, this being my first exclusively BRAPA trip to the county since 23rd Feb 2016.As well as getting some good Ipswich...
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BRAPA in ..... CANTEEN DREAM : FROM SHILDON TO SPENNYMOOR (Wobbly Wednesday)
 A warm welcome from the locals in ShildonThirsty Thursday became Wobbly Wednesday for the second time this year, as work asked me to change my day off so that somebody called 'Louise' (actually her...
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BRAPA ...... MONTH END REVIEW : FEBRUARY 2022
The world might be a scary, uncertain and depressing place at the moment (the cancellation of Neighbours obviously hits us all hard), but a productive month on the pub ticking front at least offered...
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BRAPA in ...... POMPEY CHIMES FOR LAST ORDERS (PART 1 OF 10)
 "You avin' a good night mate?"' squawks a pimple-faced, bum-fluff 'tached, slightly inebriated young man. He cannot be more the 21 years old. His two friends smile up at me, blinking with the...
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BRAPA ..... LAUDS EMSWORTH (AND SIX OTHER SHORTISH STORIES) : Part 2/10
Saturday dawned full of the joys of spring and sunshine. There was even a fair amount of warmth in the air, which I guess is the benefit of waking up on the south coast rather than in North...
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BRAPA in ..... THE GOSPORT TRUTH .... AND THREE MORE FROM POMPEY (Part 3/10)
Sunday. Never a day for being over ambitious with your pub ticking. True, pub opening hours tend to be more generous than most weekdays. But you have to factor in the reduced (i.e. complete lack of)...
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