Category Archives: Photos

Ragdoll Rest & Relaxation

September 24, 2008Animals, PhotosAlistair Lattimore

I’m not sure if it is unique to our ragdoll Princess or all ragdoll cats, however our one in particular will rest and or sleep in very strange places.

One specific fetish that Princess has revolves around sitting on or in a bag, of any description. Claire and I could be in any room in the house, where there are ample places for kitty to sit but if we put a bag down (plastic, paper, luggage, ..) – she will without a shadow of a doubt choose to sit on or in it instead, regardless of how comfortable it may or may not be.

Expect more super cute kitty photos to follow.

Pink Meet Orange

September 22, 2008Family, PhotosAlistair Lattimore

Before Hugo was born, Claire and I joked about what skin colour or skin tone our baby was going to have.

After much thought and discussion, we agreed that the most likely outcome was orange. At this point in time, you’re probably scratching your heads about orange – it’s quite simple really; I have a pink skin tone and Claire has a yellow tone. If you mix pink and yellow together, you get orange!

As it turns out, we weren’t too far from the truth – though orange wasn’t quite the right descriptor. What I am happy about is that he didn’t inherit my skin tone, as anyone who knows me will attest to the fact that the sun and I do not get along at all.

Hugo Rankin Lattimore

September 10, 2008Family, PhotosAlistair Lattimore

Claire and I became parents for the first time on Thursday 4th September at approximately 12:50PM when we welcomed a little boy named Hugo Rankin Lattimore into the world.

Hugo weighed in at a neat 3840gm or 8lb 8oz in the old scale and was 52.5cm long. According to the height/weight charts for births, those figures places Hugo roughly within or just above the averages for births.

Claire and Hugo are doing really well and we’re extremely proud, excited and blessed to have such a wonderful addition to start our family.

More to follow!

Seiko Chronograph

June 22, 2008General, PhotosAlistair Lattimore

On the same trip to Brisbane when IÂ overcame temptation, I put a new Seiko chronograph watch on lay by.

This Seiko watch is part of their Conceptual series, though you’ll have a hard time finding information about them on the Seiko web site. As an aside, having to stumble around their site to find information it really does drive home how important having a quality web site that is up to date with product information is. In the end, the only way I could find information about it was going through the advanced search page and applying the appropriate number of filters to whittle the results down.

As you’d expect, It comes with the standard set of features:

water resistant to 100m
date
1/5s high precision stop watch
alarm

An alarm isn’t a revolutionary feature on its own, however it isn’t something that you normally see on an analogue watch. I don’t expect it is something I’ll use all that often, I use my mobile phone as my alarm clock but in the off chance I don’t have that with me – it might prove useful at some point.

I think it is a pretty snazzy looking watch myself, what do you think?

Super Shiny Sparkles

June 20, 2008Photos, WeddingAlistair Lattimore

In 2005 when Claire and I were married, everything was shiny new – including our wedding rings. Over the last couple years, our wedding rings have become increasingly dull compared to their former glory.

While in Brisbane today, Claire dropped them in to get re-plated. I guess I’d become used to their appearance as they were, because when I put my wedding ring back on today – I couldn’t believe the luster the gold had after being re-plated, buffed and polished.

While the refreshed wedding bands really do shine now, they don’t compare against the diamonds in Claire’s engagement ring. As with the dull appearance of the gold, despite Claire cleaning the diamonds periodically – it appears that they were still very dirty. After coming back from the jeweler, the diamonds absolutely glisten! I’ll have to get a photo, just as a reminder so we don’t wait so long between getting our wedding rings serviced.