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BRAPA - More Ales, More Yorkshire Dales
"Eeee by gum" exclaimed my Dad, Bernard "Chaffeur" Everitt as we pulled into an unpromising looking eco-lodge development just outside Aysgarth on Sunday morning where a twild was hanging from a swing...
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BRAPA - Wortley Men's Club v BrewDog York
The York branch of the BRAPA nerve-centreCan I have my weekend back please? Â Not often I say that but after a pathetic return of one new pub and a highly pre-emptive pre-emptive, I'm not pleased with...
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BRAPA - Further North, Chapel Allerton
After another horrid 'project' day, it was a great relief to be able to tick off a pub only a couple of miles from L**ds, my place of work. Â Fittingly, the bus departed from opposite sister pub North...
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BRAPA - Are you Essex in Disguise?
Pub 970, Ship at Gidea ParkThree more East London pubs were ticked off in the name of BRAPA yesterday, to rocket it up the league table by 8 places, overtaking counties as amazing as Lincolnshire,...
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BRAPA - Abbey Inn, Newlay
A chance Google Maps based conversation with my new 'Static Data' buddies, Messrs Dawson & Beckett, helped me to realise that the mythical railway station of Kirkstall Forge was actually real, and...
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BRAPA - A Welcome Return to Lincolnshire
It's what Liz Smith would've wanted. Â I achieved my first Lincolnshire pub ticks for the first time in nearly two years. Â It was a Boxing Day bonanza in the renegade "North East" of the county, which...
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BRAPA - 2016 AWARDS CEREMONY
Picture the scene. Â You, my favourite blog/twitter followers, are sat at a series of awkward round tables in a dimly lit arena. Â Dire Straits is playing. Cloudwater Key Keg is being served (very nice)...
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BRAPA - Worksop / Woodsetts / Retford
My only two prior bits of knowledge on Worksop were as follows - I once had to retrieve a cricket ball on the boundary rope for a big West Indian called Otis Gibson. Â Secondly, Maid Marian and Her...
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BRAPA - December 2016 Review / Preview of 2017
December 2016 ReviewDecember is notoriously a tricky month to get a healthy BRAPA quota ticked off, mainly because 'normal' people remember pubs exist, get time off work, and decide it is a good time...
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BRAPA - From Tipton to Farsley
So, a New Year and plenty of exciting (or not) BRAPA pubs to visit and write 'lovely' things about ...And that has actually been true so far, as me and Dad arrived in a chilly Birmingham New Street...
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BRAPA - Shopping in Ossett
I had to act quickly. Â My two nearest West Yorkshire pub ticks were both 12 miles from L**ds, but one shuts 6:30pm every weekday except Friday, too early for my usual Tuesday night venture.So it came...
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BRAPA - Mystery Lincolnshire Tour
This was a pub-ticking first for me as I met BRAPA-chauffeur elite Dad at York's Designer Outlet at 10am on a sunny, breezy morning - I DID NOT KNOW WHERE I WAS GOING! The clues I'd been given was that...
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BRAPA - Tuesday in Altofts
On Tuesday night, before my man-flu became full blown woman-flu, when I was still capable of functioning on a pubby level, I made the short train journey to Normanton. The highlight of the journey were...
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BRAPA - Influenza in Mid Berkshire : A Love Story
It's fair to say that after two days in bed unable to move and then only three hours sleep due to too much inactivity, I wasn't best prepared for my penultimate trip for Berkshire ticking, but I forced...
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BRAPA - From Zero to Hero in Saltaire & Shipley
Titus Salt might have banned "beershops" in his visionary town of Saltaire, but on all three of my visits so far, my purpose has been just that (he also has a Wetherspoons named after him in Bradford,...
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BRAPA - Winter Festival Day One (South London)
Tom and Dad at the bar in my 1000th BRAPA pub!South London might not be, on paper at least, my most eagerly anticipated area of the Good Beer Guide to complete, but casting my hazy memory back to...
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BRAPA - Winter Festival Day Two (Bucking Hell, Croydon my saviour)
When you wake up on a Sunday morning in a Croydon Travelodge with a "to do" list of 3,599 items, you start wondering if you are unnecessarily complicating life. And this was the kind of day wish left...
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BRAPA - Winter Festival Day Three (from Marylebone to Wycombe)
I was up early on Monday, deciding to grab BRAPA by the balls after a disappointing Sunday.I sacked off the shitty Travelodge breakfast in favour of spending a fortune on Chocolate Croissants, Coffee...
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BRAPA - Scarborough, Thirsk and a Tale of Woe!
After a bit of recovery time from my Croydon excursions, I was ready to make the most of my week off work with a couple of 'bonus' ticks which didn't look like too much effort from York.It was a sunny...
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BRAPA - Three More From North Yorkshire!
Only 13 North Yorkshire pubs to go after a gentle Saturday of chauffeuring fun on Dad's 70th birthday weekend. We stopped in pretty market town Stokesley at 11am, just to prove we could find a parking...
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