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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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  • Garden of Corn and Wine

    The glorious sun continues, as does Devon’s hosepipe ban. There have been a lot of watering cans on the go… Gardening Finally, we’ve had a great stretch of warm weather that the plants have embraced wholeheartedly. The weedy specimens in the raised beds from a few weeks ago have become established, if not fully fledged,

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  • Brief Heat-Pumpdate

    British Gas is dead. Long live Octopus. This is just a brief update regarding the heat pump saga. We have now cancelled the British Gas installation after they failed to price match Octopus Energy’s quote and because we didn’t trust them to deliver after letting us down on several occasions. The shape of the installation

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  • Pumped Out – Further Delays

    The title not only refers to this delayed post but another setback in the British Gas air source heat pump saga. The workshop was cleared out. The walls stripped. The shed re-organised. The tent pitched and ready accomodate a good proportion of the contents of the house. What could go wrong? It was too good

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  • Every Day I’m Travelling

    At least that’s what it feels like at the moment. I just got back from Brussels, had a week at home, then headed out to Paris for a week at Disneyland. A Big Old (New) Tent In preparation for our glorious British summer which always provides wall to wall sunshine, we’ve bought a tent. Not

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