The One About Getting The Right Fuel In The Van
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, checked the oil and decided that the Beast was probably just saying good morning. In a fairly creepy way, but perhaps he was just referencing Hal 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s seminal 2001: Space Odyssey. We worried our way through Leamington as the light grew brighter (“Hello Dave”) flashed a little (“I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.”) grew darker (“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t let you do that.”) and started...
Tables Are Important
There are many things we still need to learn about street food, the idea being that each one will move us slightly closer to a business that is happy, prosperous and maintains a firm stance on the importance of tea. This weekend we were at Barefoot Festival in Leicestershire, and learnt a profound lesson about tables, and several minor side-lessons on the topics of camping, light and sticky toffee pudding. I will do my best to share these with you, partly because that’s how this blog works, and partly because perhaps it will help someone in the same situation. Tables. I have never really considered it, but we Brits sit while we eat. Even if we take no pleasure in the food itself, we must always be seated for the process. My theory is that it is something to...
Let there be light
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 frame. The resulting chaos is undoubtedly characterful and endearing, but leaves fault finding largely down to luck. It was for this reason that we had quietly ignored the lighting system in the back of the van ever since we first took charge of him. Now, for the benefit of the environmental health department, we needed to pack away the wires and cables that swooped across the ceiling and decorated the walls. Without a functioning lighting system though, these wires were of no use to us anyway,...
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