We had a little “Leaving London” party at the weekend. A house-cooling if you will! We had a lot of fun, but best of all I tried a new cupcake recipe and it made the nicest cupcakes I’ve tried yet! So I thought I’d share the recipe.
Ingredients
10oz/275g self raising flour
2oz/50g Cocoa powder
1teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda
8oz/225g caster sugar
8floz/250ml olive oil
5floz/150ml orange juice
5floz/150ml cold water
Method
So simple!
Seive and mix the first four ingredients into a bowl.
Mix the last three ingredients together and pour into the dry ingredients. Mix up (preferably with an electric mixer) and put into cup cake cases.
Bake at 160 degrees C/325 degrees F/Gas Mark 3 for about 25 minutes.
Let them cool overnight before you put the frosting on. I just mixed 2oz/50g vegan margerine, 2oz/50g cocoa powder and 40z/100g of icing sugar together with a little water with an electric whisk until the consistency was right and then piped it on.
So yummy!!
On Sunday we decided to get away from all things house moving and work related and we headed off to the south coast for the day. We ended up in Hastings (which is famous for a Battle that took place nearby in 1066) and had a lovely day just enjoying the sea air and each other’s company away from the horrors of real life. I think we needed it more than we realised, we came home with a sense of reconnection to ourselves, to nature and to each other which was rather nice.
So we’re now well into our penultimate week in this house. I’m madly applying for jobs in Cambridge and we’re just generally plodding along to a point where we’re ready to start packing. It’s all very close now and neither of use can wait!
I’m not teaching tonight – instead the teacher who is taking over from me is teaching and I’m going to be practicing with the class, which will be weird but fun. Then next week is my last week of classes. Four more to go in fact! Eeek!
So, now that all my yoga clients know about this, I can finally post about it in my public blog!
Himself and I are upping tools and moving to Cambridge in September. We both tire of London Life, and crave a quieter, more restful pace. Plus Cambridge is where I grew up and it will be fantastic to be near my family again – I’m a real homebody, who has been away from home for too long.
Himself has a job that is totally transportable so we will be lucky enough to have a very good salary coming in from the off. Now all we have to do is find a house that will accept two very troublesome kitty cats!
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I am, therefore, beginning to think about the fact that in less than two months I won’t be living in this house, I will have sold my yoga business (I am so blessed to have found two lovely ladies to take over from me) and I will not be teaching yoga. Instead I will (hopefully) have a job back working as a PA (currently registering with agencies and applying for jobs etc), the career I left 18 month ago to teach yoga.
And you know what? All of that sits perfectly with me. I had to do it. I had to leave work and teach yoga full time so that I don’t get to 50 and turn around and say “damn I wish I’d done that”. I had to go there to come back.
I know teaching yoga will always be in my life. Come the new year I’ll set up some pregnancy courses again on Saturday mornings. I’ll do my Pilates training and my pregnancy Pilates trianing. Pilates and an anatomical viewpoint seem to be far more where my practice and my teaching are heading.
Everything will come to the place it is meant to be and I’m so excited 
