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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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  • Movie Trips and Clinics – Writing Challenge Day Four

    Kick-Ass 2 As you may have gathered, I enjoy using the phrase ‘as you may have gathered’. But nevertheless, as you may have gathered, I’m a Kick-Ass fan. Tonight was the QUB Sci-Fi and Fantasy cinema trip to see Kick-Ass 2. I really enjoyed the first film as it was a fresh take on the

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  • Almost Forgotten – Writing Challenge Day Three

    Tree-Hugging Almost, but not quite forgotten. The challenge, that is. Today has been a busier day than I intended, filled with exciting things like breakfast, birch tea, tree-hugging, talking about films, and a tiny bit of driving on a horrible night that should belong in the middle of a deep dark Winter somewhere far away

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  • Part Two – Writing Challenge Day Two

    Cathedral Quarter Where to go next? That’s the real question. Cathedral Quarter seems like as good a bet as any, and St Anne’s square to have a look round the MAC. It’s a place I’m yet to visit, but I’ve heard good things. Cathedral Quarter is the place to go for anything artsy, or, cathedral-y.

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  • The Day Off – Writing Challenge Day One

    The Day Off It isn’t as big as Mr Bueller’s day off, but it’s my day off. I’m using it to wander around and immerse myself in the wonders of Belfast, and trying to boldly go where I’ve previously avoided going, just because it seemed like more effort than it was worth previously. I started

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