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Gaming Tales with Kalina

Welcome to another edition of Gaming Tales. If you like these random thoughts, check out our otherย Gaming Tales,ย Paulaโ€™s Game Ramblingsย andย YvoCaro ...
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Gaming Tales with Lynne

Welcome to another edition of Gaming Tales. If you like these random thoughts, check out our other Gaming Tales, Paula's ...
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(Day 14 in writing101, our assignment is to recreate a single day. I chose the day we said our final ...

A reprimand to start the day

Our country, the Netherlands, is famous for a couple of things: clogs, tulips, windmills and bicycles. Not all of them ...

Blogger recognition award

I was happy to hear that I was nominated for the Bloggers Recognition Award by Nick Langis. Although it was ...

A letter to a fellow Mii traveller

Dear fellow traveller, My daily commute to work by train. The daily ritual of finding a seat, or actually, having ...

Addictive gaming

Day 8ย in our Writing101 assignment, to write something inspired by a comment I made on someone else's blog. Looking back ...

Making Memories

โ€œAll we have to decide is what we do with the time that is given to usโ€ ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, ...

Writing inspiration, your input is welcome!

It wasn't easy to go back to my blogging today, but I did want to continue with the Blogging University, ...

To my gaming friend

We found each other some 6 years ago through Animal Crossing and through our responses, we felt an instant connection ...
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Quote as inspiration: “in my heart I’m a gamer”

My fifth day in a row,ย the writing assignment today in the Blogging University is to base my blog on a ...

Mishap at Golden Gate Bridge…

Today my assignment in the Blogging University is to use a single picture, and draw inspiration from that. Browsing the ...

Writing101, One Word Inspiration

Today's assignment in Writing101 was to write a blog, based on "one-word inspiration". These are the words to chose from: ...

A list of must haves in my purse to survive

My assignment for today in Writing101: make a list of things. Things I like, things I learned...The list that came ...

I write because…

After many, many years, itโ€™s back to the classroom for me today. Well, the virtual classroom at least. Still, it ...

Freddy and the start of the digital highway

A couple of weeks ago I made a blog about critters in video games, and from the reactions I got ...

Travelling can be quality Mii time!

For many of us the daily commute isnโ€™t something we consciously think about, itโ€™s just the way to get from ...

Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata has passed away

I was just shocked at reading this sudden news, that Nintendo has announced that Satoru Iwata the current Nintendo president, ...

Making a call…do you still do it?

From time to time I talk about app gaming here in my blog. Not that I try to bring you ...

Being in control doesn't always work in real life

Isnโ€™t it strange how parenthood works? If you are a parent yourself, maybe you will recognize this: you tend to ...

Nominated again: Dragon's Loyalty Award!

For the past year I have been blogging avidly, and in that time I have seen a lot of other ...

Fancy a Nintendo ride at Universal Studios?

In my blog last week about the Liebster Award I answered some personal questions about myself, and mentioned that my ...

My Liebster Award (very proud of it)!

I had fallen a bit behind in reading the blogs my fellow bloggers posted in the last week, too busy ...

Time for a new look!

As it's been my blogging birthday last weekend, I felt it was time for a new look. So, here it ...

Excuse me…so adult gamers don't play handhelds?

A couple of days ago we learned that Level-5, a company that I always had high esteem for because of ...

HobbitCon 2015, third time in a row

This Easter weekend we went to visit HobbitCon again. Still big fans here, so we felt we needed to do ...
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The voice of Abe and Wil in the Big Bang Theory

We just had a very relaxed weekend. I had a great timeย playing Atelier Rorona and watching what could be described ...

He has lived long and prosper…

A somber note in my blog this time. As you know I'm a huge Star Trek fan, especially of the ...

Yokai Watch toys come West in 2016

One of the first games I played when I bought a Japanese 3DS a year ago was Yokai Watch. Yokai ...

Virtual reality View Master

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Funtastic Inventions (articleย here), and how wonderful it would be if they really ...

Spring-cleaning, a little early

I like being organized, for things to be structured and have a certain symmetry. Iโ€™m not one however to think ...

Does Time Travel give you a headache?

"I don't understand", my daughter just said. "How is it that he knows about Boris buying the time travel device ...

Positive gaming

A few days ago someone who read some of my blogs for the first time, commented on how pleasant it ...

A new year…no resolutions

It's Monday and the first "normal" day of 2015. Like many of you it's back to work for me after ...

Happy New Year, everyone!

I was fortunate enough to be at the Fireworks at the London Eye last night, what a wonderful display. I ...

My blogging year in review

The WordPress.com people are kind enough to make an annual report for my blog, crunching the numbers for 2014. The ...
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Life’s not all about gaming! (or isn’t it?)

Christmas dinner was a success, my guests have left, and First Christmas Day is over. You read that right, First, ...

But what about downloading books?

At the beginning of the week I published my blog "to download or not to download" where I listed the ...

Wanna chat Nintendo or App gaming?

If you have followed my blogs in the last couple of months you will have noticed that I can chat ...

What?? No Disney Magical World at Orlando's Disney World?

As I mentioned earlier, we visited Orlando and Disney World in August. As a 3DS fanatic I bring my handhelds ...
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Alaskagate and the Great British BakeOff

Every year we look forward to watching the Great British BakeOff on the BBC. For those of you who have ...

Disney's Epcot Orlando, Japanese treasures

Well, I'm back! After almost three weeks of enjoying a lovely holiday in Orlando Florida. Some seriously relaxing times with ...

Animal Crossing, connecting people

This morning I stumbled upon a little tale about Animal Crossing that caught my eye, and after reading it, tugged ...

Nintendo's future

If youโ€™re an avid gamer like me, and you like to keep up to date about the developments of the ...

The bike riding Dutch

Yesterday I wrote about something Japanese, the popin cookin videoโ€™s. Today I thought that it was strange that I did ...

Wanted: Japanese store abroad

As Iโ€™ve already blogged about some time ago, Iโ€™ve bought myself a Japanese 3DS LL, and am trying to acquire ...
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Revisiting old friends

Can you bring yourself to playing a finished game more than once? Of course I donโ€™t mean that I discard ...
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It’s life Jim…

I think we've already established that I have a passion for gaming. What I haven't told you yet, is that ...

Going on a holiday: is it worth it?

Holidays, always an important and essential part of my life. Even as a child, when most families just didnโ€™t go ...

HobbitCon, a world on its own

Iย think I can safely say Iโ€™m not your typical middle aged woman. I lead a relatively quiet family life, no ...

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