tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post8470066077664157356..comments2024-03-26T09:19:10.810+00:00Comments on BRAPA (British Real Ale Pub Adventure): BRAPA - Awkward in AuckleySi 'BRAPA' Everitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291680772889990384noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-10323309020681258432016-02-29T21:47:12.560+00:002016-02-29T21:47:12.560+00:00Thanks Tom, useful stuff. I do a cheapo L**ds to ...Thanks Tom, useful stuff. I do a cheapo L**ds to Donny stopper that was something ridiculous like £3 and then Donny-York was ridiculously expensive like £16-18. I miss the days when my York-Leeds pass (possibly) covered Donny! Si 'BRAPA' Everitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17291680772889990384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-24027319296610538172016-02-25T20:51:00.222+00:002016-02-25T20:51:00.222+00:00The cheapest way would be to get an advance single...The cheapest way would be to get an advance single in each direction, but that would lose you all flexibility. I'm not sure what you're currently paying, but the following would be fully flexible:<br />York-Wakefield, route Leeds cheap day return £13.80<br />Change of route excess on the return portion to any permitted £5.40 (this is calculated as (£24.60-£13.80)/2<br />Total £19.20<br />All available from York booking office. I'd suggest doing it the night before.<br /><br />If you are willing to be restricted to the Leeds-Donny stoppers and don't mind the possibility of an argument on the way back, then email me.Tom Irvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15707212109059322727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-25667364033454727742016-02-25T20:26:17.880+00:002016-02-25T20:26:17.880+00:00Calling me "young friend" will sure help...Calling me "young friend" will sure help your BRAPA man of the year award 2016 chances! I will most likely be doing Donny from Leeds but back to York so if you have any cunning plans to save money on that, let me know! It's a pain!! Si 'BRAPA' Everitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17291680772889990384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-45573588866734457232016-02-21T23:16:57.696+00:002016-02-21T23:16:57.696+00:00It must have been earlier in the week than Friday ...It must have been earlier in the week than Friday when I bumped into you and you told me Phil Brown had been sacked because it was the week before the 3-2 defeat at Portsmouth. I went south on the Friday afternoon, having spent the lunchtime and early afternoon in the Old Bar with my logician friends due to a cancelled examples class.<br /><br />Well done on your Plus Bus ticket, you are making progress my young friend. Let me know if you do another Donny day both ways from York, I have recently made a discovery.<br /><br />I have seen beer jars without lids before that not only have they gone cloudy, but they'd developed a layer of dust where the head should be.Tom Irvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15707212109059322727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-71108347025213507722016-02-21T19:09:53.553+00:002016-02-21T19:09:53.553+00:00I think the smiling females were too blonde and &#...I think the smiling females were too blonde and 'part of a team' to qualify individually. Maybe we need a team award! <br /><br />Yes, despite not facing the public, we have to wear quite smart stuff apart from Friday when I can unleash the green machine! Well, I guess I must always have bumped into you on a Friday. <br /><br />Good point re 18:36, I wonder if 19:36 has made it round the corner at my time of reply? I had a Plus Bus ticket. Yes, the train delays were minor but compounded the bus misery. <br /><br />I think most beer display jars do have lids from my experience, but it hasn't made much difference in terms of it going cloudy quick smart. I found it funny the John Smith's didn't have one! Si 'BRAPA' Everitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17291680772889990384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-23338822393882291002016-02-18T21:58:10.178+00:002016-02-18T21:58:10.178+00:00Doncaster bus station is indeed a shithole. I'...Doncaster bus station is indeed a shithole. I've been there many a time when there have been long term rail replacements, I've also been known to cut through Tesco before said giant realised Donny was too small a shithole (but still shit all the same) to support things like supermarkets.<br /><br />I've never studied young Donny girls that closely but I trust your research, which was all done in the interest of science I'm sure.<br /><br />Were any of the smiling friendly young females potential award winners? I really must visit some of these village pubs, but I don't get to these South Yorkshire villages nearly as much as I used to.<br /><br />I can't imagine you in a formal white work shirt. I've always assumed that not being public facing, you just turn up wearing bright green every day. In fact, I'm sure that's what you used to be wearing when I occasionally bumped into you in L**ds to be told things like 'Phil Brown's been sacked, Alan Curbishley is apparently coming in'.<br /><br />I propose an alternate bus theory which is that the 19:36 bus is just around the corner now and you were actually on the delayed 18:36. Did you have a Plus Bus ticket? I'd call the train delays you found minor.<br /><br />I like the addition of lids to the beer display jars. This at least stops the beer getting dusty as well as cloudy, which I have seen before. Still not the best conceived idea around though.Tom Irvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15707212109059322727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-60985531980589969392016-02-17T23:04:02.237+00:002016-02-17T23:04:02.237+00:00It's an interesting one, I really think good s...It's an interesting one, I really think good staff stick in the mind like that guy in Gerrard Arms on Saturday who stopped a food pub becoming a restaurant, and my off pint in Armthorpe so nicely dealt with by the staff, it became a positive. I'll look fwd to reading about Nottingham. <br /><br />He seems like a guy who may crumble under hypnosis, he thinks they won but couldn't be sure. I told him the blog depended on him, but he just looked confused. <br /><br />Good theory! It would explain why it looks like it's been hanging around, swilled around, been in the open, for about 5 weeks. Smiths was still the best seller from what I saw. Si 'BRAPA' Everitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17291680772889990384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-46686189924088681672016-02-17T22:33:40.743+00:002016-02-17T22:33:40.743+00:00It is surprising staff are so important, but the t...It is surprising staff are so important, but the two Notts pubs I'm writing about today had staff who stick in the mind long after you get the slightly off pint out of your mind. A better pint and I'd be back there next week.<br /><br />You really should press Mark on that score Simon; use hypnosis or whatever they call it in Donny.<br /><br />My Auckley visit was a decade ago, remember a boisterous Saturday night, and an OK John Smiths from when that was still good.<br /><br />My theory on those jam jars is that they actually contain discarded thirds from beer festivals that beer tickers have left behind.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com