Laughton Family

Don’t play Tennis

We take our lives in our hands every day. Tennis on Sunday culminated in the “sprain of the left ankle with syndesmosis injury and widening of the distal tibia / fibula”. Surgery on Wednesday and tennis again in six months. Arse – for more information look at this article. Google+

Linda & Mikey’s Wedding

A simply delightful weekend spent in Glasgow for Linda & Mikey’s Wedding. Commentary to follow but photos and a couple of videos attached in the short term. Highlights have to include the Gregor Aitken speech, Tammy Aitken’s warmup session and the smooth & assured dance steps of Andrew Aitken. We liked the Moorpark House venue [...]

Walker Bay Trip | Early tenth wedding anniversary

We took a weekend away to pre-celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary this weekend – timed this way as we had babysitters on call at this time. About two hours out of Cape Town is a small town called Stanford which we had visited before with the children (just when we had arrived. A really small [...]

David Innes – The unacceptable side of retirement – Part Two

It has been a busy day in Cape Town for David Innes – his doze seems to regenerated the young man. I can only apologise for the graphic nature of this photo – and ask that you delete your internet immediately to prevent this popping into your dreams. Google+

David Innes – The unacceptable face of retirement

David Innes landed this morning with a spring in his step – yet within the hour was caught dozing. Long live retirement. Google+

First Day in School Uniform & Dreams of Innes Free

We aspire to many things in life. Some of them achievable and some far from achievable (in this lifetime) 1) Achievable – seeing all your children wonder off into the world equipped with the skills they need to flourish. From small foot-steps come great strides – and the first day seeing young Zoe in school [...]

Molly, Joe and Zoe

Taken in Cape Town – October 2012 Google+

Franschhoek | Bread and Wine Restaurant

Mix of shots from visit to Franschhoek and the excellent Bread and Wine Restaurant on the Moreson Wine Farm. We stayed for three days at Cooks Cottage – an independent self catering property in the centre of Franschhoek. We visited the Moyo restaurant on the Spier Wine Farm where we bought one bucket load of [...]

Pneumonia and school reports

Basic and dullish entry today – but if my task is to share information then stuff like this will inevitably need to be filed online. Firstly the facts about pneumonia. Although it enabled me to watch the Ryder cup in full every evening, there were downsides to the illness. My wife is understandably a little [...]

Molly and the planets

Think we didn’t spend long enough on her school project – the making of a moon. The entries from talented children/parents can all be view at facebook.com/internationalschoolofcapetown Google+