by Flic Luxmoore | Friday, June 17, 2011 | Food Van Driving
Music: Wounded Rhymes by Lykke Li We finally found a cooker for the Beast. It was within our price range and would fit the space in the van. It was also in Winsford. I had therefore decided to fix the faulty cigarette lighter in Stevo the Stilo so that the sat nav and...
by Flic Luxmoore | Monday, June 6, 2011 | Food Van Driving, Projects
It is a curious fact that the wiring within the van is one of the lesser known wonders of the world. Over the last quarter of a century many minds have set to work adding a little something here and there and thus each stamping their mark on the van’s beastly...
by Flic Luxmoore | Friday, April 22, 2011 | Food Van Driving, Hopeful, House
I’m sure everyone has one, a vague collection of plans and dates that you will tackle when you have a moment. I have one that I am gradually working my way through, adding to it more often than I cross something off. It is fast becoming a creation so complex you...
by Flic Luxmoore | Tuesday, April 12, 2011 | Food Van Driving
Yesterday was a glorious day in the chronicles of the Jabberwocky. The kind of day which, if we were in a musical, would have been a song. If we had been starring in an 80s film, it would have been a montage and if we’d been in ancient Greece, it would have been...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, March 16, 2011 | Food Van Driving
The miraculous news is still settling in. I assume that at some point in the next few days I will unexpectedly begin leaping around and singing. Behold, the Beast, now certifiably road legal! I think that much of my excitement has already been expended on the delight...
by Flic Luxmoore | Saturday, February 26, 2011 | Food Van Driving
The glow plugs were indeed not working properly and the battery was, indeed, dead. The mechanics of Leamington (including the much hailed “returning tomorrow” of the previous post) had fought and fallen before the Beast, at times (I can only assume),...