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BRAPA is .... NOT IN KNOTT END / PUTTING THE 'GRIM' AND 'ARGH' IN GRIMSARGH /...
BRAPA incompetence denied me a first pub tick of August on my second day at Blackpool's Rebellion Punk Festival.I thought I was being very clever too, taking the tram all the way from St Chad's Road to...
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BRAPA MONTH END REVIEW (AUGUST 2022)
Greetings. Six or seven weeks away from the 2023, we are approaching that time of year when it is hard to do your ticking without thoughts turning to what might be in the next edition, and whether...
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BRAPA in .... BUMPER BLOGGING BLITZ AUGUST PART 1/6 (DALTON IN FURNESS TO...
 Yo BRAPA, quit your jibber jabber!  As promised yesterday, ten pubs coming up in a (slightly) abridged format so I can catch up and my mind can breathe more easily as we enter September.First up, I...
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BRAPA in .... BUMPER BALLROOM BLITZ PART 2/6 (APPLEBY TO SWANLEY VIA ELTHAM)
You left me in Kirkoswald. Daddy BRAPA's next act of chauffeuristic magnificence was a trip to Appleby-in-Westmorland for a pub that'd been on my radar for far too long. I even remember checking...
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BRAPA .... BUMPER BLOGGING BLITZ PART 3/6 : FROM HALSTEAD TO SHOOTERS HILL...
Halstead seemed a fitting place to continue my recent ticking foray into Kent and South East London. After all, it was a man called Halstead who made my York-London journey possible, courtesy of a...
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BRAPA BUMPER BLOGGING BLITZ PART 4/6 : FROM NUNHEAD TO BATTERSEA VIA GREENWICH
The South East London quest continued apace on August Bank Holiday Monday. Gotta scrutinise those opening hours extra carefully.Experience tells me that it is 50/50 whether pubs that don't normally...
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BRAPA BUMPER BLOGGING BLITZ PART 5/7 : SOUTH LAMBETH TO BALHAM VIA CLAPHAM &...
Fresh from my Battersea double tick, it was back to Kennington and one stop down on the Northern line to Oval, as in that cricket place. Oh cricket, what happened? I was obsessed with it in the mid...
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BRAPA BUMPER BLOGGING BLITZ PART 6/8 : CARSHALTON TO OLDHAM VIA SOUTH WIMBLEDON
My South West London Sunday Special continued apace, and following on from the impressive Nightingale, I walk to Balham station and make my way back to my furthest point south, Carshalton.I'd ticked...
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BRAPA BUMPER BLOGGING BLITZ PART 7/8 : OLDHAM TO PENARTH VIA STALYBRIDGE
Two of my remaining three Greater Manchester ticks had come in Oldham, which sort of makes it the Orkney of England if you think about it very carefully.Cob & Coal had been fabulous, could our next...
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BRAPA in .... CARDIFF BAY CITY STROLLERS
I suppose that looking back now, one of the most pleasing aspects about these Glamorgan Good Beer Guide pubs is that even when they are cited as having 'an emphasis on dining' or 'serving food to a...
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BRAPA .... FROM THE DOG END OF CARDIFF TO THE CAT'S WHISKERS OF NORTH KENT
Cardiff seemed pretty wired on this particular Saturday night. No doubt they all wanted to give QE2 a resounding send off in the only way they know how, by getting smashed. Daddy BRAPA had made the...
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BRAPA MONTH END REVIEW - SEPTEMBER 2022 : LIVING IN A BRAPSTA'S PARADISE
59 pubs for the month, my best 2022 tally and third best ever .... and I would easily have broken my record of 61 if it hadn't been for a demonic combination of wedding do and dentist (not at the same...
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BRAPA in .... I LUV SHEPPY (KENTY WAS PLENTY : PART 1/11)
Rewind to mid September, and Kenty was plenty as I took myself down to Sittingbourne of six days of morale boosting pub ticking.Sorry I'm so far behind, Gwent and jury service are to blame. At least I...
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BRAPA in .... LOVE ME TENTER(DEN) : Kenty Was Plenty Part 2/11
No sooner had the BRAPA feet touched down on the firm ground of Maidstone for the first time in my life, I was straight back out the other side to the arguably more life-sapping town of Ashford.It was...
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BRAPA is .... PUTTING THE SNORT IN KINGSNORTH (Kenty was Plenty Pt 3/11)
Kingsnorth is a village just south of evil Ashford. Village might be a bit generous, it feels in danger of being swallowed up by the arsehole of mid Kent.  But more importantly, it contains a GBG pub...
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BRAPA IS ..... LYING-IN-STEAK (BAKE) : Kenty was Plenty Part 4/11 State...
Ticking on a Bank Holiday Monday is generally the hardest of days to be a pub ticker. But a Bank Holiday Monday due to a State funeral? Peak difficulty levels. Impossible to predict what pubs would...
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BRAPA in ..... DON'T JUDGE A GBG BY ITS MISSING COVER : Kenty was Plenty 5/11
Canterbury had done me pretty well on this most difficult of State Funeral ticking days. Three pubs down, one to go. I'd had to hang around until 17:30 opening, which hadn't been ideal, but at least...
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BRAPA is .... CHARING CROSS, BIG PIG, PLOP LARKINS : Kenty Was Plenty Part 6/11
 "Phew, back to normality, or whatever normality means in the world of BRAPA lolz!" I cry to my fluffy cauliflower as I rise from my slumber at 8:30am on the Tuesday. I boil the mini kettle and make...
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BRAPA .... THE 2023 GOOD BEER GUIDE IS HERE
Well, you could've knocked me down with a feather! Jury service finished, and I'm sat in BRAPA Towers having a leisurely late lunch, watching 1986 Neighbours, before logging onto work for the first...
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BRAPA in .... HAPPY NEW (GOOD BEER GUIDE) YEAR : TOUGH CHURN / PRE-EMPTIVES...
Another one back on the shelf.Good morning and happy new Good Beer Guide year!The cross-ticking is complete and I've just got one word for you ..... OUCH.The Damage312Â pubs lost, bringing me down to...
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