BUPA London 10,000
We both ran the BUPA London 10k for Guide Dogs for the Blind on Monday 25th May 2009,raising £110 for Guide Dogs. Thanks so much to our sponsors.
Our times were: Robin 59:54 and Leah 01:01:23 (damn those extra 84 seconds!)
We got to run part of the proposed 2012 Olympic marathon course through a route which took in several famous Londons sights including Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, St.Paul's Cathedral and most importantly the film set for Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter movies.
We also had a great day out with Robin's parents who kindly agreed to babysit for Charlotte while we ran. Charlotte saw us off at the start and very much enjoyed meeting the Guide dogs and puppies. Photos of this are now on the Guide Dogs BUPA London 10,000 Flickr photostream (which makes it the second time this week that our family has appeared in a dog-related charity Flickr album - Skye having won the national Dogs Trust Honours 09 Rex Factor Award for her footballing skills, which was presented to her by Camilla Dallerup at the Hurlingham Club on Tuesday 19th May).
We have already added our photos of the race to Facebook and will get around to adding them to our April-May 09 Flickr album http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedarbyshires/sets/72157616592837806/
very shortly....
The photos above are of 1) Leah and Charlotte at the South Downs 2) Charlotte watching us start the race and 2) Leah, Robin and Charlotte with Guide Dog Vince (Leah and Robin looking rather hot and knackered as it was taken minutes after completing the race
We are looking forward to hopefully running next year's 10k. In the meantime, Leah is training for a 1/2 marathon for the Child Bereavment Charity in October.
Labels: charities, running
Charlotte's 1st birthday
We celebrated our daughter's 1st birthday last week. Charlotte Loyalty Darbyshire turned one on 12th November 2008 so we marked the occasion with a trip to Birdworld nr Farnham, Surrey (Charlotte loves all kinds of birds, especially the colourful ones!). We also held a party for family and close friends at our house a few days later (see photo of Charlotte in her party dress above).
And here is a Flickr link to the photos of the birthday girl:
Charlotte's 1st Birthday Photo AlbumWe can't believe a year has gone by already but what a year hey!
Other than that, we're really enjoying our fun but hectic London working family life.
Labels: birthdays, Charlotte, occasions, our daughter
Charlotte @ 7-8 months
Oops, we have just realised we meant to update this blog about once every six months but the last six months have just flown by in a total whirlwind since our daughter, Charlotte Loyalty Darbyshire, was born. So we thought you might like to see a couple of recent photos of Charlotte (for those who don't follow our Flickr site). The first photo was taken as Charlotte turned eight months and the second photo was actually shot back in March, when she was four months old, but remains one of our favourite photos of our baby girl.
In other news, Leah returned to work in April, so The Darbyshires are now a (very!) busy working family too.
Labels: Charlotte, Leah, work
Welcome to the world Charlotte Loyalty Darbyshire
We are absolutely delighted to announce the birth of our first child, a baby girl, Charlotte Loyalty Darbyshire, who arrived at 1.23 pm on Monday 12th November 2007 at St. George's hospital in London, weighing 8 lb 8 ounces (3.85 kilograms).
Unfortunately the birth was not uncomplicated, Charlotte first had to spend 48 hours in the intensive care unit due to breathing difficulties upon birth. Leah also lost a litre of blood in an emergency assisted delivery to rescue Charlotte, narrowly avoided a blood transfusion and has since been on iron tablets, antibiotics and painkillers. However, we are so delighted that both Darbyshire girls are now fully recovered, sleeping together in the maternity ward and are set for discharge tomorrow, Friday 16th November, once Charlotte's course of antibiotics here at the hospital is complete.
We are both ecstatically happy and couldn't be more proud of our daughter who was worth every second. We are now very much looking forward to bringing her home and introducing her to Yishi, just in time to be a new family all together this Christmas.
Thank you to all those who have sent us their thoughts, cards, messages, flowers and gifts during what has been very much an emotional rollercoaster of a week.
Please find photos of our newborn daughter, Charlotte, on our Fiickr pages and we look forward to bringing more news of her shortly.
Charlotte's first Flickr photo albumLabels: baby, Charlotte, our daughter
Baby Girl
Leah and Robin are very happy to announce that they're having a little baby girl!
Labels: baby, our daughter, pregnancy
News from The Darbyshires: We're expecting!
By Leah and Robin Darbyshire
It has been a long time since we posted on this blog, seven months in fact, and we certainly don't intend posting on it much again. However, since we noticed that a fair few people are still searching out this blog (as well as our new one and that quite keenly too judging by the search terms!) we figured there are at least some people out there who'd like to know how we've been getting on.
And well, we do have some fairly big news to announce to you. Leah is three months pregnant so we are expecting our very first child at the end of October. We are both very happy and excited. Little Baby Darbyshire is developing just nicely too.
In other news, a few weeks ago we bought a new house, actually just across the street from our old flat. We were able to take advantage of the South West London property boom of these last five years to upgrade our flat. So we have now bought a two bedroom, two bathroom Edwardian terraced house with loads more space and a garden especially for Yishi, our dog. We love it lots and are now embarking on the whole DIY and decoration process again (sigh).
We are of course back living in the UK after our year out in Singapore. Leah's firm relocated her back for a role in the London office (where she is now getting stuck into legal research) and Robin is again working for a medical technology company but this time for his former UK employer.
As for our dog, Yishi, after a fourteen hour British Airways flight and being successfully 'immigrated' by DEFRA, our now one year old red Singaporean English cocker spaniel boy is also back living with us in the UK. Yishi is really loving the UK with its cooler temperatures and the freedom to run free in the countryside and woodlands. The three of us are already having lots of adventures together discovering doggy paradises all over these isles.
Well, we hope everyone is well, peas out for now and maybe we'll be back with another update in six months when hopefully Team Darbyshire will have got even bigger!
Leah, Robin and Yishi xxx
Labels: baby, house, news update, Singapore, Yishi
We're Moving!
It seems to us that the bloggersphere out there can't seem to keep their eyes off our blog. It's a shame that we've attracted the attention of a bunch of weirdos. So, anyway, we are moving.
We're sad to be losing those of you who drop by from time to time to whom we will probably not be able to give our new location but a few troublemakers, not content with their own lives, have decided to spoil somebody else's.
If you know us, then please drop us an email or leave us a comment and we'll happily send you out the new address for our blog so you can keep in touch with us out here in Singapore just as before.
Wishing all of you health and happiness.
Leah Darbyshire, Robin Darbyshire, Yishi
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