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Things I'm doing, things I've done, things I'm still figuring out.

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Building · 24 July 2026

Building engines for a car I'll never drive

I've got a graveyard of half-finished gaming projects and a story I've told myself for years: that I can't stick at anything. Turns out the story's wrong, and the tell was sitting on my shelf the whole time.

Lurgan, NI 3 min read
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I've got a graveyard of half-finished gaming projects and a story I've told myself for years: that I can't stick at anything. Turns out the story's wrong, and the tell was sitting on my shelf the whole time.
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Family · April 2019

First D&D game as a player

Last Sunday I played my first D&D game as a player and absolutely loved it. I've wanted to play a game since I first started DMing for my daughters a few months ago but finding a game when you live in Northern Ireland is not that easy. After trying to get accepted to several games
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Building · April 2019

100 Days of Awesome

There are certain things that you know if you do them your life will be better. You have absolutely zero doubt that this is true and not just your life but your family as well. These things are generally not huge things and do not cost large amounts of money either but still, you do
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Family · April 2019

A Dads slide into the world of Dungeons and Dragons

I love my daughters more than life itself so when they said they wanted to try dungeons and dragons, I thought that sounds like fun. I've always been a geek and wanted to give it a go but my experience was limted to watching it played on the big bang theory. Georgia bought the starter
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Building · December 2018

A new year, a new start.

I've been playing around with this blogging thing for years. Starting, then stopping, writing then vlogging but it always patters out.
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Building · October 2016

30 Day Vlog Fail

My 30-day vlogging challenge was an epic fail. Daily vlogging is really, frickin hard. I was enjoying making the videos, even thought they were terrible.
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Building · October 2016

Simple Doesn't Mean Easy

A while ago I was cleaning out my email, doing a huge purge of everything I'm subscribed to when I found this email from Corbett Bar. Corbet is one of the guys behind the pretty epic fizzle and I'm subscribed to his lifestyle business weekly blog sites email list. Every now and then some one
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Garden

Peas, beans, gooseberry, rhubarb, the apple tree. Things growing because someone I loved grew them.
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Water

SUP boards, cold lakes, paddles in mist. The Bann, Lough Neagh, the Caledonian, and the Shannon I haven't done yet.
56 posts

Building

Things made with hands. Kitchens, beds, brains, businesses. Whatever the next thing is.
5 posts

Family

Sinead, Katie-Ann, G, mum. The people who change me. The dogs. Sometimes Brendan, who keeps having ideas.
2 posts

Travel

Mum on planes. Long drives. Mountains where I shouldn't have been. Cities I keep returning to.
3 posts

Reading

Books that taught me a trade. Books that changed a year. Books I keep going back to.

About the egg

A feganegg is a fried egg with HP sauce, cut and mashed together. It comes from my grandmother's kitchen in Aghagallon, where the family kept the three locks on the canal. My wife gave me the nickname when we met; she said it was "a combination of disgusting and cute."

It's also this blog. The blog is the home I'm building, one post at a time. Things I do, things I've done, the people who taught me how — mostly the ones I'm still trying to keep up with.

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A photograph of Damien at the kitchen table, very good coffee in front, dog at his feet.