Nigella breaks her silence as she tweets picture of son's birthday cake after her cooking equipment was removed from home she shared with Saatchi

Nigella Lawson baked a cake for her son Bruno's 17th birthday today after her kitchen equipment was moved from her marital home.
The TV chef Tweeted for the first time since pictures of her husband Charles Saatchi grabbing her neck were published.
She posted a picture of a plain chocolate caked iced with the simple words 'Happy Birthday Bruno' this evening.

Nigella Tweeted for the first time wince she left her marital home, posting a photograph of a birthday cake for her son Hugo

The prolific Tweeter, who has 408,573 followers, has not been on the social media website since the June 15, the day that the controversial photos were published.
She is famous for posting photographs of food that she makes and enjoys at restaurants.
The photograph received 358 favourites in the first hour, and has inspired dozens of supporters to reply with warm messages.
Julia Ball ‏wrote: '@Nigella_Lawson Glad to see you back Nigella XX'

First tweet: Nigella posted a picture of a cake for her son Bruno after her kitchen equipment was moved from their Chelsea home. A box can also be seen with the words Bruno's room

Move: The TV chef's cookery equipment was also removed. This crepe maker was loaded into the van with the rest of her belongings

And Lisa F ‏added: '@Nigella_Lawson Welcome home Lady.'
More of her belongings were removed from her Chelsea home today in a third day of moving.
One of the vans contained a box which clearly had the words 'Bruno's room' written on it.
Two string instruments and a skateboard were loaded into van by a removal company.
Some of the chef's cooking equipment was also taken with a crepe maker being added to the pile of belongings.

Flora and fauna: Pot plants were also removed from the house today in the third day of moving

Skateboard: This is one of the clearest signs that the TV star is leaving her husband

Removal: Instruments were taken from thr house and loaded into a moving van

Yesterday, Charles Saatchi had his things delivered to the house in the most obvious sign yet that the TV chef’s split from the art collector may be permanent.
When Nigella Lawson moved out, her husband Charles Saatchi had played down photographs of him grabbing her by the throat and tweaking her nose at a restaurant as a ‘playful tiff’.
But she appears to have dashed any hopes he may have that the marriage of the couple - who have a £14million marital home in Chelsea, west London - can be reconciled.

Changes: Charles Saatchi returns to his home in Chelsea, south-west London, yesterday as removal vans are filled

On the move: Charles Saatchi has boxes and furniture delivered to his home in Chelsea, south-west London

Property shift: Removal men take out belongings at Mr Saatchi's home (left) as furniture was delivered (right)

Cooking: Well-used pots and pans believed to be possessions of Nigella Lawson are taken from the home

In and out: The arrival of the removal teams at the £14million marital home in Chelsea was the clearest sign yet that the TV chef’s marriage split may be permanent

For the second day yesterday there was a van outside their home, sent to take away not just her clothes but also her precious cookery utensils and recipe books – everything, it seems, but the kitchen sink.

They appeared in the middle of the afternoon yesterday, evidently while Saatchi was out.
Under the direction of Miss Lawson’s sister Horatia, they trooped in and out of the house removing box after box, including ones labelled ‘cookbooks’ and ‘kitchen’ as well as a food processor, clothes and paintings.
Other items including Miss Lawson’s weights and exercise ball, dresses, hats, toys, toiletries and even a bag of wrapping paper were loaded into the van.
One box contained a can labelled Cannabis – which despite the alarming name is a legal energy drink containing hemp extract.
Miss Lawson was not seen yesterday and Saatchi turned up only after the process was complete. There were so many possessions that the removal team made two runs.
One onlooker said he had been told that some statues had been removed earlier in the day.
‘It looked very much like Nigella is moving all of her personal possessions out of the house – and isn’t going to be back in a hurry,’ he said.
Many items were apparently taken to a storage facility while the rest were taken to an address some seven miles away in south-west London where Miss Lawson appears to be setting up home.
She was spotted yesterday with Bruno, her 17-year-old son from her first marriage, before heading back to the £10,000-a-week Mayfair flat where she has been staying.

A man was seen removing a box that had 'cookbooks' written on it from Lawson and Saatchi's house

A Gibson guitar is carefully packed into place among Ms Lawson's other possessions

The 53-year-old has been seen there several times looking drawn and without her wedding ring, and while her two children and sister have visited, there has been no sign of her husband of ten years.
Saatchi, 70, has accepted a police caution for assault for the scenes that provoked their split, despite playing it down.
The advertising tycoon turned modern art mogul was photographed grabbing Miss Lawson by the throat and tweaking her nose outside Scotts restaurant in central London during an extraordinary 27-minute incident three Sundays ago.

When Miss Lawson left home after the photos were published a week later, Saatchi claimed he had simply suggested she moved out to wait for ‘the dust to settle’.

Moving out: Miss Lawson's keep-fit equipment is packed into the van, along with bags and some summer hats

A plastic box full of personal effects is loaded, including, it appears, a can of Cannabis Energy Drink

He initially tried to explain the throat-grabbing as a ‘playful tiff’.
When further pictures of him twisting Miss Lawson’s nose emerged, he said he had merely been trying to clean her nose.
Miss Lawson’s spokesman last night continued to refuse to comment either on the assault incident or on the state of her marriage.
But moving her belongings to a different house would appear to signal the start of a divorce between the millionaire celebrity chef and Saatchi, who is said to have a fortune of up to £100million.