Author name: How Askew

Virtual Camp Quirky 2020

Here’s my 2nd live streaming gig, beamed live from our van, Stargazer!

Some original songs and a few covers to close the first virtual Camp Quirky festival…

Winterised: Winter Camping in the Benimar Mileo 201

We’ve really put our van through its paces in terms of winter camping this year, and it’s been great! It’s a Benimar Mileo motorhome, model 201. Ours is from late 2015 and includes…

Lockdown bound: through Europe and the COVID-19 outbreak

Hindsight is a wonderful thing of course. With the open data now available, I wondered if I could track our homeward journey through the unfolding pandemic. How close did we come? Where might we have been exposed?

Update on van life costs

Two of the most read posts on the blog are “How much does it cost to run a campervan?” and

Out Now!

So, at last, very pleased to say the album is out now and live on bandcamp – 10 tracks, ‘ten bob’ a track or a fiver for the lot 😉

Huge ‘thank you’ to all involved – especially Bev, the band Phil Muriel and Richy Clarke, my guests Lyndon Anderson, Phil Moore, Gary Grainger and Gav Warrender, and to Dee at Ginger Music Company in Gateshead.

New album update #1

Good afternoon at Ginger Music studio yesterday, things moving along with the new album. The title is…. Brass Neck! There

New Album!

New Album! It’s been a long, long time coming, but I’m very pleased to say a new album is on

Foraging, baking and fishing…

Part of van life is to try to make it feel like a home from home, especially if you’re using

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