The Jabberwocky Soliloquy Blog

The Dos and Don’ts

by Flic Luxmoore | Jan 9, 2013 | Food Van Driving | 0 Comments

I'm currently working on a page about starting a street food business, with useful advice on the 10 dos and 143 don'ts of taking up the tongs and trying to make a living out of other people's change. This last week has been all about the van, and about the sad demise...

Getting the Price Right

by Flic Luxmoore | Jan 3, 2013 | Street Food, Street Food Theory | 4 Comments

The Great British Toastie has seen us well through 2012, but this year, the third year of the Jabberwocky, we are considering refining our offering. There are a few reasons for this, all currently in a jumbled mess inside my head, so with the aid of tea, your good...

Support Vehicles

by Flic Luxmoore | Dec 28, 2012 | Food Van Driving | 0 Comments

This Christmas was a Northern Christmas, celebrated in the wilds of Teesside with Barny's family. We're now back in the Midlands with enough leftovers to sink an average family car in fair weather; after apparently choosing the same exact time as everyone else in...

Street Food Redux

by Flic Luxmoore | Dec 19, 2012 | Projects, Street Food | 0 Comments

I have been watching too many uninspiring 80s sci-fi remakes lately, or perhaps I have been drinking too much tea. Either way, it is time for a think about what we are actually trying to achieve in Leamington Spa, on the subject of street food. In the run up to...

The Repetitive Process

by Flic Luxmoore | Dec 12, 2012 | The Business of Catering | 4 Comments

Some weeks I have lots to write about, and the blog post is written in a moment. Those ones require the most editing, because in my joyful outpouring of whatever junk was cluttering the archives of my mind there is usually a fair bit of drivel. Other weeks it feels...

Coping With The Off-Season

by Flic Luxmoore | Dec 5, 2012 | Hopeful, Virtual | 4 Comments

This year was probably not what Frank had in mind, but this song has been floating around my head since I started thinking about this post, and a lot of it seems apt, at the very least. Our last event of 2012 approaches, and our last event serving food is already...

Street Food This Weekend: Birmingham, Leamington Spa and Your Imagination

by Flic Luxmoore | Nov 28, 2012 | Hopeful, Street Food | 2 Comments

This weekend lots of exciting things are happening. In the middle of this will also be the only chance we have of seeing my family before Christmas, which will be possibly the nicest part of it all. The thing about street food is that you don't really see anyone, and...

The One About Getting The Right Fuel In The Van

by Flic Luxmoore | Nov 21, 2012 | Food Van Driving | 0 Comments

It started with a debate about a light on the dash board as we were driving to Sutton Coldfield for a Chritsmas market last weekend. A red light we never even knew existed awoke and began to glow. Dimly at first, when he roared into life. We topped up the radiator,...

Christmas Toasties

by Flic Luxmoore | Nov 14, 2012 | Jabberwocky Toasties, Recipes, Toasties | 1 Comment

We have spent the last two weeks testing Christmas toasties, attaching clips to the van and buying rope lights. When Christmas comes we intend to be ready for it. If there is any funny business I'll be making a playlist as well, and it will have the Pogues. It won't...

The Time To Run A Business

by Flic Luxmoore | Nov 7, 2012 | Street Food Theory, The Business of Catering | 2 Comments

Back when the Beast had only just hatched, in the days when the Wocky was young and first peered out into the big wide world, we wondered idly if we would have enough time to get everything done. I used to work a 9-5 rat-race type job at a big company. Each day I...