New shots of Elizabeth

It's a lovely day here, so Elizabeth and I have been out in the garden. I thought that her fans might like to see how well she's looking in her tutu and wellies.

J

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Latest Elizabeth update

Elizabeth and I went to the General hospital in Newcastle on Monday. This was an adventure as we have never darkened the doors of the General before and it took me 25 minutes to find a place to park. However, despite the best efforts of the hospital planners, we made it to the clinic on time and in one piece to be told that Elizabeth almost certainly has an allergy to egg. Bloods were taken to be tested and and we are to avoid anything eggy for now - I will see a dietician to be trained in this.

She does NOT have a milk protein intolerance. Now a normal mother's reaction would be "Yippee" but I am actually a little disappointed. For the sake of our sanity it would have been great to have a solution as to why Elizabeth got so seriously ill so often last year and then we would know how to stop it happening ever again. However, Elizabeth has been well for quite some time with the help of the antibiotics she takes every couple of days, so we are slowly learning to stop worrying despite the ongoing mystery...

J
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Gill is 70!

My mum was 70 this Sunday. We held a lovely little party, which is all mum wanted bacause of Molly's recent death.

The first two photos show the blazing inferno that was mum's birthday cake (she made the cake and put ONE CANDLE on it but we added another sixty nine secretly). The third shot features mum wearing the hi tech headset that my sister, Sue, bought mum to enable her to chat on the phone without neglecting her household chores!

Janie

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It's been a while

Hi all,

Sorry we've been so slack!

Happy to report that Elizabeth's been pretty well since her allergy/intolerance/whatever it was incident last month. She's had a couple of nasty colds but has fought them off - that's really encouraging as last year it was a case of "she's got a cold - better pack a bag for hospital because it's only a matter of time..."

The only thing is that Elizabeth's not put any weight on or grown recently - in fact she's actually lost a bit of weight. Hardy surprising because she never stops !! We're going to have to up te calorific intake again. Luckily she seems to share my love of chocolate :-)

We've had a lovely visit from my mum while my dad is in Jamaica... the girls had a lovely time with their grandma:

Elizabeth's going into the Newcastle General Hospital for her allerg tests on Monday so we'll keep you posted with the results.

Ax