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BRAPA - A Millers Tale of Two Spoons
The Maltby Welcoming Committee meet me (photo courtesy M.Taylor)The omens weren't particularly good as I headed to Rotherham for the first time in BRAPA South Yorkshire Tuesday evening history. When...
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BRAPA - Liverpool & Birkenhead
It was time for John Watson's stag do, and proving I'm an unselfish best-man, I didn't try and turn it into a full-on BRAPA pub ticking extravaganza, as tempting as that might've been. Two new pubs...
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BRAPA - Returning to the South of Sheffield
What felt like my five billionth trip to Sheffield on a Tuesday night in 2016 proved a classic, but didn't start out too comfortably.Convinced I was coming down with a lurgie on the eve of my trip to...
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ARAPA - Australian "Real Ale" Pub Adventure - Part One ("Pubs 1-5)
Me learning about Australia whilst supping a glass of plane lagerG'day Cobbers, dunno if I mentioned I was flown Business Class to Melbourne for a week? Oh I did? Are you sure?Bad news from a BRAPA...
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ARAPA - Australian "Real Ale" Pub Adventure Pt 2 ("Pubs" 6-11)
Tuesday was the day I was most knackered in Melbourne, only 3 hrs sleep despite being exhausted can only be a result of jet-lag confusing my brain into not knowing what timezone it should be in. East...
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BRAPA - East Yorkshire Hallow-eve Special
With the veil between life and death at it's thinnest (just look at the zombies on York's number 7 bus to the Designer Outlet), this is my favourite time of year and the Autumn colours were amazing....
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BRAPA - October Review / November Preview
October ReviewIt has been a fascinating and rewarding month for Simon Everitt, but who cares about that loser?Best man speech. Highlight : getting gently booed for slagging off the North East to room...
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BRAPA - Finishing Sheffield (at long last!)
I described Sunday's East Yorkshire trip as the Hallowe'en Special, but it couldn't match a freezing cold, dank and dark Tuesday night in West Sheffield for sheer horror. It was so chilly, the locals...
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BRAPA - A painful day in the Manchester 'burbs
A bottle of Old Tom and an axe, typical Everitt bonfire fun.Saturday morning dawned freezing cold and early, as I wanted a good start to the day for two reasons. Firstly, I had to be back in York for...
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BRAPA - East Yorkshire : COMPLETE (well, til Sept 2017)
Beverley doing it's best to be lovely despite the grim weather.It has really hit home since September just what an impossible challenge BRAPA is. Not that I'm being defeatist. Just that I was up to...
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BRAPA - Dobcross 2-2 Stalybridge
A Tuesday afternoon off work was made all the more exciting by a "yellow" snow warning (not that anyone likes yellow snow), especially as I was off into t'hills......Autumnal lunch along the canal at...
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BRAPA - Berkshire Part IX (Three Mile Cross, Shinfield, Barkham & Wokingham)
Possibly the most Berkshire quote I've ever seen (on the Leopard Number 3)An annoying Polish man from Doncaster who was travelling to London to support South African rugby managed to make the journey...
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BRAPA - Duke of Leeds, Wales, South Yorkshire
A mad old lady had already refused to take my seat on the train "aah've been stood up all bluddy day luvvie!" by the time a group of wide-eyed ghouls hopped off in front of me at Kiveton Bridge...
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BRAPA - Chesters & Ivy House, Sunderland
Sunderland was set to it's default temperature of "bloody freezing" as us southern softies arrived on Saturday morning, with the biggest Hull City gang of the season. Not only me, Dad and Tom, but Ben...
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BRAPA - Wath-Upon-Dearne : On Trend
Two of the top pub types of "this time in our history" are Wetherspoons, and Micro Pubs. Like 'em or loathe 'em, they form the basis of the "Wath Upon Dearne Real Ale Scene" (WUDRAS) , proof that the...
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BRAPA - Friday Frenzy in Harrogate
With a Friends of Ham catch-up night cancelled, I thought it wise to fill-in a rare drinking space in my diary with an easy BRAPA tick to keep me chugging along in this productive month of November....
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BRAPA - Winter Woollen Adventure in West Yorkshire
Feezing Frog at York StationIt was time for the half yearly BRAPA day out with those brave folk from work who are willing to trek from pub to pub to help me in my quest. Regulars Rich Ellis (drinking...
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BRAPA - Whiston 2-1 Wickersley*
Using a BRAPA card as a beermat is always a last resort (Chequers, Pub 955)* Wickersley wins on the away "good club" rule.The heaving 16:48 from L**ds to Rotherham should have been more than a two...
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Ho ho ho! We are approaching that magical time of year where people go to pubs in silly jumpers, act like idiots, stand at the bar, and generally make you crave miserable January pubbing. But it...
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BRAPA - Berkshire Part X (Windsor, Moneyrow Green, Warfield, Sandhurst)
Having successfully dodged the demonic combination of Christmas shoppers and England rugby fans, I was at Windsor & Eton Central (why do they need a Riverside too, just greedy) before 11am so I had...
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