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25th Freaky Trigger Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl (#FTABCANYPC25): The Hackney Brutalist Kissy Face
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— 26 Dec 2025 Pete Baran Comment

Tuesday, 30th December 2025 is the 25th (sort of) Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl and we have decided to make a rare foray out of Zone 1 to HACKNEY. Twenty Five years too late to actively gentrify it, perhaps we undo some of that dama[…]

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The 21st Freaky Trigger Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl: Back To TCR
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— 10 Dec 2019 Pete Baran 8 comments

Twenty Years Ago (1999) I decided to organise a pub crawl on the quietest pub day of the year, and thus the Freaky Trigger annual between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl (henceforth #FTABCANYPC) was born. Since then we have crawled annually on the 2[…]

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The 20th Freaky Trigger Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl: The Holloway Road Poker
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— 16 Dec 2018 Pete Baran 14 comments

(A poker as in the kind that comes from a set with a shovel, and a brush that is more ornamental than useful when setting a fire)
Twenty years of the Freaky Trigger Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl (or the #FTABCANYPC) and this year we[…]

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The 18th Freaky Trigger Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl: The Fleet Street Up Index Finger
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— 14 Dec 2017 Pete Baran Comment

The Pub Crawl turns 18 – old enough to see a Tarantino film legally if it should so desire.
Every year, on the 29th December* between Christmas and New Year I run a pub crawl in a geographical location and this year it is time to follow the ol[…]

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The 17th Annual Freaky Trigger Between Christmas and New Year Pub Crawl: The Highgate Upside Down Wales
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— 9 Dec 2016 Pete Baran 2 comments

Hurrah – the Pub Crawl is now old enough to join the Army!
To celebrate this milestone I thought on the 29th December this year we should go on a route which several milestones can be seen, and also have a metaphorical expeditionary force, a fo[…]

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Sam Smith’s and the Fitzroy Tavern
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— 29 Oct 2016 CarsmileSteve 4 comments

It seemed appropriate to return to writing with a piece about the refurbed (although that’s an understatement) Fitzroy Tavern and my continuing love/hate relationship with Sam Smiths. Huge swathes of the pub writing on FT is about Sam Smiths b[…]

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The 16th Annual Freaky Trigger Between Christmas and New Year Pub Crawl: The Kennington Catapult Arm
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— 23 Dec 2015 Pete Baran 6 comments

Pub crawl time once more and it is about time we went South (or actually East) of the river, and to celebrate the Crawl being able to join the army we are heading to Kennington for a gentle wander from the river to Kennington Station. As ever its on […]

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Breakfast bang-bang: cereal/bagel
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— 21 Mar 2015 Bec 3 comments

Leslie Knope: Why would anybody ever eat anything besides breakfast food?
Ron Swanson: People are idiots, Leslie.
Michael Bluth: What have we always said is the most important thing?
George-Michael Bluth: Breakfast?
Michael Bluth: Family.
George-Mich[…]

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The 15th Annual Freaky Trigger Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl : The Kentish Town Ducks Arse
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— 16 Dec 2014 Pete Baran Comment

Yes, it’s the most wonderful time of the year, it’s FTBCANYPC time!
This year for our 15th crawl we will be having a little saunter around Kentish Town. or at least down the hill from Gospel Oak to Kentish Town West, taking in Vines, pineapples a[…]

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…Down Paradise Row
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— 18 Apr 2014 CarsmileSteve 5 comments

We went to Mother Kelly’s in Bethnal Green for the first time last night (it’s only been open a couple of weeks) and it’s LOVELY! Twenty-odd taps of well-kept keg (including seven last night from De Molen), six fridges of well selec[…]

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