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BRAPA MONTH END REVIEW : APRIL 2022
Colin having fun in Knebworth with John48 pubs for the month. An April record. It felt more like a 30 pub month in truth.The fact that 22 were done in the first 5 days and 17 in the final 7 days...
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BRAPA is .... DRAWING A LINE IN THE SANDRIDGE : ANOTHER MINI HERTS ATTACK
You'd have to ask Former Si (version Jan '22) why he thought it would be a good idea to land in Stevenage as late as 12 noon today, rather than in the nice familiar early/mid morning slot.It sure made...
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BRAPA in ..... U SANE, BOLT(ON)? : MORE MADNESS FROM GREATER MANCHESTER
 Boo! How are you? You join me LIVE from Bolton market (well, 'live' as it was then, Friday 29th April). And having failed to visit the 'world famous' Bury market last time out, I didn't want to...
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BRAPA in ..... TICK ASTLEY : NEVER GONNA GIVE PUBS UP / BALLET IN BOOTHSTOWN
The beauty of pub ticking is that you just never quite know what you are going to experience. Look at yesterday's trip to 'One for the Road' in Bolton for example, a jaw-droppingly bizarre.And now we...
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BRAPA in ..... THE RAMS-BOTTOM OF THE BARREL (AND AN AL-CAULI-HIC IN LEIGH)
You left me in Leigh, last time out. Not perhaps my favourite town in the UK to be stuck in retrospective limbo, but that's how the blogging goes sometimes.  The Bobbin had surprised me, my strongest...
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BRAPA in ..... THANKS FOR THE LANCS! (Birthday Special : from Accrington to...
My final day as a 42 year old. Old in the most boring way possible. No one cares when you are making the transition from 42 to 43. No one has ever had 43 candles on their cake. No cards or badges...
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BRAPA in ..... CHEADLE DEE & CHEADLE DUM
 #PubMen"Cheeeeadle .... Cheeeeadle ..... ugh, I hate that word!" said Sister BRAPA (not a nun) when she asked me where I'd be spending my birthday weekend.NOT even just the one Cheadle. The Staffs...
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BRAPA in ..... WELCOME TO THE HOUSE OF PLUM (NOW PEDRO'S COME OF AGE) : OUTER...
A fully green Lancastrian section of the 2022 Good Beer Guide now seems a very real prospect after the Fantastic Mr Sutton helped me to do some of the harder to reach pubs around Blackburn and...
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BRAPA in ..... A PAIN IN THE GARS-TANG : OUTER PRESTON PT 2
Spicy Scotch egg if you were wondering what's in the foil (you weren't)Garstang. I had been warned. Boxing Day 2018 to be precise. I was trying to escape from the Plungington part of Preston on foot....
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BRAPA in ...... MY HERTS WILL GO ON (..... but not for much longer Celine)
21st May 2022 was BRAPA judgement day in Hertfordshire. And as long as nothing silly happened (by which I mean pubs being unexpectedly closed, or barring me for swearing or using electronic devices),...
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BRAPA in ..... WISKE ME AWAY : SUNDAY SPECIAL COUNTY COMPLETIONS
Sunday should be a day of rest. Don't get me wrong, I'm not religious. I just don't see Sunday as a pub ticking day. Unless it is part of an epic holiday, in which case all bets are off.I prefer my...
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BRAPA is ...... LEYLAND DAFT! Outer Preston Part 3 of 4
 My last Thirsty Thursday for quite some time.  Sad times, but I've purposefully decided not to do anything on Jubilee Thursday unless I have a late change of heart, and work have asked me to work the...
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BRAPA MONTH END REVIEW : MAY 2022
May started with a peculiar interloper at the Ramsbottom British Legion asking if I'd tried Banana Bread or Brewndoggle beers, and it ended with me walking around in an aimless circular tour of the bar...
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BRAPA .... BRINGS MATTERS TO A HED-NESFORD
 Hednesford seemed confused on the morning of Saturday 28th May 2022. The Jubilee was a week away, but the sheer volume of bunting, union jacks and people in plastic hats with 'Our Maj' tattooed on...
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BRAPA in ..... TAXIS ARE BAD FOR YOUR ELF-ORD
Hednesford might well have been ticked, but if I was succeed in my quest to get a fully green Staffordshire before the 2023 Good Beer Guide lands on my doormat with all the force of a herd of...
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BRAPA ..... FIDGETS IN THE SPINNERS : From Adlington to Rivington
My favourite #ThirstyThursday since my Whitby/Robin Hood's Bay epic back in the wintertime nearly didn't happen at all.Jubilee Thursday didn't whet my appetite like a bog standard Thurs. Street...
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BRAPA in ..... EDDIE'S WEDDY : A DAY OF WEST YORKSHIRE PRE-EMPTIVES
 Live footage from OssettA wedding evening-do for fellow pub ticker, the great Mr Eddie Fogden, meant I didn't want to over commit myself pub-wise on Saturday 4th June.  I'd considered Littleborough,...
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BRAPA in ..... CROSSING WITH SI AND DOTTING WITH (DADDY) B. : Tales from...
If today's quest to 'green' all six pubs in that awkward north western coastal corner of Lancashire was to be a success, public transport had to run like clockwork.  Silverdale ("you're so northern,...
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BRAPA in .... NOTHING COMPARES TO YEW (TREE INN, CAULDON)
(I was going to call the blog 'BRAPA in Operation Yew Tree' but errrm, you know .....)A two hour drive to rural Staffordshire last Saturday morning meant I could not afford to be feeling ill on the...
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BRAPA is .... GOING OUT ON A PLYM : Cornish Summer Holiday Pt 1/10
 Train beer for ColPlymouth has long since had a soft spot in my pub shaped heart. I've visited four times with Good Beer Guide pub intentions, firstly in 200, latterly in 2008. Six years before...
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