Eating and exercise

While I can't say that my social life has been exactly hectic, it does feel like things are starting to come together a bit. I went for a drink with a colleague last week, quite unexpectedly, and I have started to make ice-cream plans with another. And at the moment I am quite enjoying the relaxed pace and my calmer social calendar. 

This quieter period means that I am spending a lot more time than usual thinking about food and cooking food! My excitement about having an oven has involved more bread baking, and I used some of the dough to make homemade pizza from scratch - sauce and all. It was delicious and really sorted out my pizza craving. I found mozzarella in the supermarket so it was also a good cheese fix (and I bought blue cheese the other day as well...mmmm). 

The bread has been very good for making work sandwiches. 

So this extra eating has prompted extra exercise and I have been enjoying jogging around my new district, learning the street names (in my area many of the streets are named after rivers, which is nice) and marvelling at the size and grandeur of the houses. I have also learned which pavements to avoid and haven't been shouted at for a while now! 

And yesterday I went to a yoga class. It was very sweaty (dread to think what the Hot Yoga class would be like) despite the fact that it is pretty 'cold' here at the moment. There were about 16 people plus the teacher in a small room, so I think it was just body heat, but it will be interesting when the weather warms up! I enjoyed the class and I was pleased I went, it would have been easy to put it off but it felt like a good way of varying my evenings a bit and a start in meeting some new people.