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Walls, Fletchers, and Games
The Wall Building will Continue until Morale Improves Yes, I have brutalised myself, but all in the name of progress. The wall has come together quite quickly. Is it perfect? Far from it, but it hasn’t fallen down yet and doesn’t look horrendous. It is a long overdue project as I hated the old pseudo-brick…
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Split Slate and Fiction
A little bit of gaming, and a little bit of DIY. The dry stone walling workshop at Quince Honey Farm was fun, and though the stones were heavy, the detail was light. The most important messages I took away were to just give it a try. And backfill. Lots of backfill. In this context it’s…
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Reading on a Deadline
Because what better way is there to relax than a threat of impending confiscation… The Library No, I’m not talking about your Steam Library. Or your PlayStation catalogue. We are discussing brick-and-mortar (and sometimes chassis in the case of vans) libraries. I have an on-again, off-again relationship with the library system. It was a convenient…
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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In Too Deep?
I have a very particular set of skills… Part of my job is to carry out post mortems on people who have died whilst diving. It is a fascinating area of medicine and requires knowledge of both traditional pathology and pathophysiology, and the physics and physiology of diving. It isn’t what I expected to develop…
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Fried Chicken and Brain Frying Bikes
Bikes and fried chicken. The curse of the semi-early adopter. VanMoof X3 (Thrice the name, thrice the pain…) If you’ve followed my writing over the last year, you may well remember my VanMoof-related strife. My wife’s VanMoof X3 stopped working reliably thanks to a break within the motor cable, and the only way of fixing…
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(Alan) Wake and Bake?
We’re going to need games, and food…lots of food. Before you say “this is supposed to be a gaming blog”, it hasn’t all been cooking. We have been enjoying both Control and Alan Wake 2. The intertwined Remedy-verse provides a lot of fodder for fun cross-overs including characters like the enigmatic Finnish janitor, Ahti, who…
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Bound for Basel (Minox 35 GT)
During my recent trip to Basel, I called into Fotohaus Wolf and picked up a 36 shot roll of Kodak Gold for my Minox 35 GT. The conditions were perfect so it was time to practice my zone focusing. This batch came out a lot better than before. I was using between f8 and f16…
