Category: Food
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Resident Evil, and Resident Chef
Back to Ordinary Decent Gaming roots. As you may have figured out by now, Ordinary Decent Gamer isn’t always about gaming. In fact, it might feature less than almost every other topic. Food seems to sneak in more often than not. Drinks. Even electric cars. Life seems to get in the way of sitting down…
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Electric Life (Driving and Biking)
Something has come over me. A transformation of sorts. I think I like driving. I did something I had never done before. I drove my car to…nowhere. That’s right, I took a journey just for the sake of because I like driving this car so much. The Polestar 2 has converted me, and it’s really…
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Any Port(ugal) in a Storm
As an antidote to the dire weather the South West has been experiencing over the last weeks and months, we took a trip out to Albufeira in the Algarve for four nights. I have never been interested in package holidays. In fact, I have actively resisted them. We did a Haven holiday to Brittany when…
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Time Out
And now begins five weeks free from work. Whatever will we do? We have embarked upon a five week stretch of work-free bliss. There are a bunch of little trips planned and some time around the house to get stuff done. Newforge Workshop Since migrating my business to the mainland, I haven’t had much time…
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Bean to Cup?
More like Bank to Box to Bean to Cup. Scratch that. Birth to Business to Bank to Box to Bean to Cup, if we’re being accurate about it. Yes, this is my first foray into the world of Bean to Cup coffee machines after exploring Aeropress, a manual espresso machine (Saeco Poemia), the V60, mokka,…
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Platelets and PlayStation
This is a late one, but I’ve crept in just before the deadline. The week got away from me this time, and as much as I tried to get this post started in the early hours, I was a little distracted. First someone stabbed my finger. Then my arm. Then I was told not to…
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The Tool Wall
Back to long overdue projects, starting with the workshop. In order to fit the water cylinder and other equipment for the heat pump I had to remove some storage and the units built by the previous owner of the house. The engineers kindly left me a big square of wall space that I could work…
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A Capacitor in Time Saves Nine?
The dramatic conclusion to our sewing machine epic is finally here. Will it work? Read on and find out for yourself. I like to fix things. We’ve covered this multiple times before. If I can stop something going to landfill unnecessarily, I’m always up for taking something apart and tinkering. Sometimes it’s an easy fix…
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D&D (Darkplace and Dining)
Come with me now, dear Reader, into the depths of my very consciousness. To a place of darkness and true horror. And discarded Peperami packets. A Dark Place This week we stepped into a particularly dark place. A place so dark, in fact, that it is difficult to even begin to explain exactly how dark…
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Twas the Thursday after Christmas – Gluttony and Gaming
We’re firmly in that weird period between Christmas and New Year’s where the desire to sit around and do nothing is pitted against a restless energy to get out and explore. You’ll be pleased to hear that doing nothing won out. Well, not nothing. Sitting around and playing the PS5 while in a food-induced stupor…
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