Ordinary Decent Gamer

Your daily overdose of gaming, and life in general

If gaming isn’t a part of your life, you’re doing it wrong.

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  • Cinema, Coffee, and (Haute) Cuisine

    What would Ordinary Decent Gamer be without food? Perhaps a gaming blog… Although ODG started life as Inside Gamescom in 2011, dedicated to the latest releases from the WiFi tent in the Gamescom campsite in Cologne (later almost washed away in a dramatic flood), it has morphed into a shudder “lifestyle” blog. In that it…

  • Baking and Caking

    When life gives you, or rather, doesn’t give you yeast, make sourdough. I have been on and off sourdough since encountering it in Von’s 1000Spirits in Seattle in 2012. I was relatively late to the party (compared to the Epgyptians in 1500 BCE), but in my defence, it wasn’t much of a thing in Northern…

  • C&C (Cars and Coals)

    What do you do when you need a break? Spend five hours driving to Manchester, of course! Yes, that is the kind of logic I employ. It’s a day away from work, to go to a work-related meeting, but a day away from the grind is more than welcomed. Driving the Polestar 2 a couple…

Ordinary Decent Gamer was born out of a desire to write about games, but it has become so much more. Food, travel, DIY and more.

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  • Booted due to inactivity…

    Not yet thankfully…not from my own blog. Though I have to apologize, because things have been hectic as usual and I haven’t been able to post. When I arrived home from America I was rushed straight back into work, getting the house tidied up and doing odd jobs, to get ready for our American guest

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  • Guess who’s back

    I’ve been behind on posting recently, to my detriment, because so much more has happened since I was last on here. Everything is go in my house at the moment, as we are getting ready to host an American as part of Operation Friendship, and in addition to that we’re hosting the welcome party on

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  • Guns and Garage Sales: Part Two

    First and foremost, I got my exam results which were fine, and my 2nd year of medicine is finally done and dusted. Back to the business at hand, and slightly late. But hey, don’t sue me, I’m on holiday! Here’s part two. Dennis, who lives next door to my brother, is a collector. Not just

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  • Guns and Garage Sales: Part One

    Hello again from Oregon City! There has been so much going on since I last posted. I’m going to try and recall as much as I can, but I can’t guarantee that it happened exactly like this. Working with the animals has been a constant throughout the time here, and from time to time helping

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