All posts by Alistair Lattimore

About Alistair Lattimore

My name is Alistair Lattimore, I'm in my very early 30's and live on the sunny Gold Coast in Australia. I married my high school sweet heart & we've been together for longer than I can remember. Claire and I started our family in September 2008 when Hugo was born and added a gorgeous little girl named Evie in May 2010. You can find me online in the typical hangouts, Google+, Twitter & facebook. .

32nd Birthday

Life

I’m now officially 32 years old, good golly Miss Molly!

Lots of people I talk to get worried about their birthday and getting older. I’m not one of those people, to me I’m officially another year older but it doesn’t weigh on me at all. I don’t feel any different to when I was 25 years old, so I don’t see why I should let an arbitrary number have any bearing on things.

I woke up early on my birthday morning, so decided that I’d go for a walk and try out my new heart rate monitor I received for Christmas. Unfortunately I opened RunKeeper before enabling Bluetooth, so it didn’t detect my new heart rate monitor but I’ll remember that for next time.

When I returned home, Claire took Hugo & Evie down to McDonald’s to get their weekend breakfast treat of pancakes. Once we’d munched through those, it was present time and I was spoiled with:

Mid morning we jumped in the car and ventured over to Sterle & Lorraine’s house for a barbecue birthday lunch. It served as a great way to bring all of Claire’s brothers, sisters, partners and kids together post Christmas and was really great to catch up with everyone again.

Thank you to everyone from Claire’s side of the family who drove down for a barbecue lunch and my family & friends who sent me an email, instant message, SMS or phoned me for my birthday – well wishes are always great.

33rd birthday here we come!

Doggy Doo, Defecating Just Got Fun

Videos

I think I’ve now seen the most hilarious children’s game of all time, Doggy Doo.

Doggy Doo players feed the cute sausage dog food & take turns squeezing a small handheld pump. Players squeeze the pump according to the score they rolled on the dice. Each squeeze of the pump makes Doggy Doo fart as he struggles to push out a nice fresh poo. The first player to collect three of Doggy Doo’s poo’s on their shovel wins the game!

Danny MacAskill vs San Francisco

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I’ve posted a couple Danny MacAskill videos in the past which I think are incredible on so many different levels. Danny’s latest video riding through San Francisco is in a slightly different format and while his amazing mountain bike riding skills are still on display, it has Danny providing commentary throughout which provides a glimpse into the mind of a professional trials mountain bike rider.

Martyn Ashton – Road Bike Party

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Meet Martyn Ashton, a multi-world mountain bike trial riding champion. Martyn decided to take a £10,000 carbon Pinarella Dogma 2 road bike used by Team Sky’s Bradley Wiggins & Mark Cavendish for a different kind ride.

It would have been amazing if that video was filmed on a mountain bike like Danny Macaskill’s Industrial Revolutions but it is that much more impressive on a road bike, especially riding over the steel work arc of a bridge!