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  • A New Dishwasher (and a few games along the way)

    We’re gearing up for Christmas, a process that is in no way enhanced by having to deal with a broken dishwasher. The problem with having a lot of stuff on is the lack of time to write about it. I have managed to squeeze in some games though. Neon White Part of the beauty of…

  • 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…

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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  • (Even more) Electrification

    We’ll soon be moving away from fossil fuels entirely as a family (on a household level)… The Next Car The Polestar 2 experiment has been a success. A few months in and over 2,500 miles (even without commutes), it has been an excellent automobile. Yes I’ve had niggles with the key and the app, and

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  • Project: Hedgehog (or Hedgehogs and Projects)

    Rain. Rain. And more rain. Although that’s not all that visited recently… For the first time in living memory, our garden played host to a little spiky mammal who wandered into view across the patio. The area is rather exposed and patrolled by multiple cats which is probably why we haven’t seen any hedgehogs here

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  • Summer Rains

    After a few weeks of summer, we’re back to Autumn with drenching rains. That hasn’t quite dampened our enthusiasm for getting stuff done. Yes, July is proving to be a wet month already. Good for the plants, but not quite as good for those trying to do things outdoors. We did have the odd sensation

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  • Sheffield Bound (Again)

    Another road trip. The Polestar 2 is racking up the miles! Sheffield. It’s quite far from Plymouth, but don’t let that put you off! Many places are. It’s sort of the deal with living at one extreme corner of the United Kingdom. Sheffield is a vibrant city with a surprising amount of green space, and

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