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Author: Rick Hurst
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Running a home office using solar power – part 1
Although I like to use our campervan as a mobile office, I mainly work from a home “office” built in an existing shed. The breeze-block building…
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Fitting a swivel seat base to a vw t4
One of the first jobs on the list when we bought Hercules was a swivel base for the passenger seat. T4 vans come with either a…
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Introducing Freerange Freelance!
Those of you who have followed a link to campervanthings.com might be confused to see a different domain name and site title “Freerange Freelance”. Let me…
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Using a cheap Quechua tarp fresh as a campervan awning
We are using a Quechua tarp fresh as an awning/canopy. We already had the tarp, which we used for tent camping to provide some outdoor rain…
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We have a van again!
Far longer in the planning than i’d like, but we now have a campervan again! This one is a 2001 VW T4 2.5 tdi short wheelbase…
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What is a Full Stack web developer?
TL;DR It’s just a convenient term to describe a web developer who does both front and back-end, and maybe some other things . I label myself…
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Minimal campervan conversion – what actually constitutes a campervan?
A year on from saying goodbye to our last campervan, we are really missing vanlife, so making plans for the next one. Our last van came…
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How to live in a van and travel – new book from Vandogtraveller
I was lucky enough to be sent an advanced copy of Mike Hudson’s (AKA Vandogtraveller) new book How to live in a van and travel”. I’ve…
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Deploying and maintaining a website using git
I’ve kind of used git to deploy/ manage php/ static websites for a while now, but in a very luddite way – basically sshing into the…
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Taking a break
Camper Van Things is taking a break for a while. It’s been fun, but Rocky has moved onto new adventures with a new owner, and therefore…
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Where is Rocky?
From reading this neglected blog you’d be forgiven for thinking that Rocky has been abandoned for the last couple of years in a warehouse, but happily…
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Using Vagrant for local LAMP development
I’ve always used a local version of Apache for php dev, either the version provided with OSX, or using something like XAMPP or MAMP. On a…