I’m back after my teacher training day. It was lovely, a school with no crazy kids! Peace around the corridors and time to sort displays and classrooms out.
In the last half an hour or so, I had a short course on mindfulness. It was interesting, all about clearing your mind, slowing down, and thinking of negative thoughts at buses, or clouds, that pass by, not them being all encompassing.
I chose to do this course because, I kid you not, there was a picture of a Malteser in the handout!
And, to my joy, there was Malteasers present too!! And we got to eat…one…after becoming one with that Malteser…
I had to pick one, hold it, really look at it, think about its appearance (round), smell it (chocolate), listen to it (heck, it’ll only crunch when you let me eat it!), feel it (melting, melting, it needs my mouth!) And taste it…mmmmmmmm!
Oh, it dissolved so beautifully! Melted in the mouth theoretically. In reality, it melted in my hand!
Then we had to meditate for 5 minutes… Now, I do know the benefits, after all, my Pops teaches yoga! But in a room full of people, susceptible to giggling fits that I am, and with an open bag of Malteasers in front of me, do you REALLY think I can concentrate my mind on my breathing??!!
But I Smile Anyway... 
Aug 19, 2017 @ 02:59:30
I love this, Ritu! 😅
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Aug 19, 2017 @ 08:51:17
It was a funny course.. I’d do more training if it involved Maltesers!
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Aug 19, 2017 @ 12:35:12
😀
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Aug 18, 2017 @ 01:27:39
HAHAHAHA!! This was great. We do a similar exercise with our students for the purpose, but with Hershey Kisses!
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Aug 18, 2017 @ 01:28:16
*same purpose 😜
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Aug 18, 2017 @ 08:02:07
It is sooooo tough!!!
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Aug 17, 2017 @ 19:36:33
LOL… I don’t think you can clear your mind when holding a back of Maltesers in your hands 😄 I love your word play when you write Malteasers… too funny!
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Aug 17, 2017 @ 19:49:59
😂 lol thanks sis! They are a tease!!!
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Aug 17, 2017 @ 20:12:36
Welcome… got you 😂
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Aug 17, 2017 @ 20:14:45
😂
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Aug 17, 2017 @ 16:26:01
Fun fact that your Pops teaches yoga. I’ve never had a Malteaser, but now I want one!
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Aug 17, 2017 @ 16:35:53
They are sooooo good!!!
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Aug 17, 2017 @ 12:12:29
I become one with my bag of peanut M&M’s when they’re all in my stomach!
Sitting looking at them one by one and feeling them would be torture! Fattymacupcakes and a tub of Ben & Jerrys comes to mind here! 😂😂
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Aug 17, 2017 @ 12:16:08
Lol!!! I was only good because others were around . Had I been alone… Those Maltesers wouldn’t have stood a chance 😂
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Aug 17, 2017 @ 11:45:53
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Aug 17, 2017 @ 08:54:57
Ugh! I loooove Maltesers 😫😫😳
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Aug 17, 2017 @ 09:23:11
Me too!!!!
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Aug 17, 2017 @ 08:38:33
I feel cheated!! I’ve only ever done that mindfulness exercise with a raisin!! 😉
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Aug 17, 2017 @ 09:22:33
I could never do it alone.. . Thst Maltesers pack would be empty before I even got down to the thinking part! 😂
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Aug 17, 2017 @ 09:28:29
Hahaha 😉
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Apr 27, 2017 @ 20:34:41
We did this in work!! With a flipping raisin!! Hear the raisin was the worst, never again!!
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Apr 27, 2017 @ 20:45:13
Lol!!! I was lucky with my Malteaser then!!!!
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Apr 27, 2017 @ 21:04:02
You really were!! Like you can pretend a tiny raisin isn’t a raisin?!
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Apr 27, 2017 @ 21:35:38
Lol!!!! 😂😂
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 18:37:39
You got any left☺☺☺☺me some
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 19:10:14
I have two unopened boxes!!!
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 19:19:22
Ooh on my way sis, put the kettle on😘
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 19:46:03
Any time bro!!! ☺☺☺
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 19:47:46
I’ll hold you to that sis, one day, when Kent opens its borders and allows Yorkshire people in☺☺☺
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 19:48:23
Lol!!!!!!!
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 19:49:13
But save me some Malteasers😉
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 19:52:54
Oooh that’ll be hard!!!!
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 19:54:25
Use the force sis😉
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 19:58:08
I’ll try…!
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 19:58:59
☺☺☺😘
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 18:37:07
Sis! What are we gonna do with you?
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 19:10:00
😁😁😁😁
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 10:46:00
Nations crumble, galaxies far far away teeter on the brink, even Donald Trump’s hair threatens to depart The Scalp but, hold the front page, Ritu is communing with a chocolate world. Will she? Won’t she? Of course she bloody will…. And thus all those Malteasians disappear in one mouthful.
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 10:49:38
And I demolished a whole box last night, while being inspired for Ronovan’s haiku challenge!!
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 21:04:20
Gulp!
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 21:08:09
I know… My waistline is screaming at me, but my tastebuds beg for more.. what can a girl do??!!
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 21:14:45
Look up and eat!
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 21:20:54
That’s the problem, I am pretty good at doing that!!!
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 21:30:38
I’ve just realised that blogging is a couple of typos away from blobbing. THat could explain your problem!
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 21:42:44
Lol! That’s what I’m doing… Blobbing!!!
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 10:19:55
OMG! I love Malteasers. This was my pregnancy craving ❤
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Dec 22, 2015 @ 10:48:45
I don’thave pregnancy as an excuse… I just crave them constantly!!!
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Dec 21, 2015 @ 20:13:23
Maltesers sound very tempting! Yum! 🙂
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Dec 21, 2015 @ 16:39:00
I’d have to munch on a couple dozen just for inspiration. 😉
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Dec 21, 2015 @ 16:54:01
It just has to be done!!!
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Dec 21, 2015 @ 15:16:30
OMG, I love Maltesers! I must never start or I cannot stop anymore! I love them! I am used to meditaion… but I could never stay calm knowing that bag stands in front of me…lol
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Dec 21, 2015 @ 16:52:59
I sooooo know that feeling sis!!?
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Dec 21, 2015 @ 17:12:04
I sensed it… 😃
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Dec 21, 2015 @ 14:23:43
Now, I will have the melt-in-mouth chocolate dreams!
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Dec 21, 2015 @ 14:44:20
Lol!!
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Feb 23, 2015 @ 22:03:02
When i was teaching we all looked forward to the afternoon because they knew we would all be tired after lunch so they were have lots of sweets and chocolates after lunch, to give us energy to stay awake another three hours. My favorites were always m&m. Malteasers look like what we call malted milk balls in the U.S.
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Feb 23, 2015 @ 22:39:09
Oh there are always biscuits (cookies) and cake. Doughnuts, chocolates in the staffroom, but they don’t last long!! Teachers are also known as gannets!!!
The Malteasers are little light honeycomb balls covered in chocolate, and they are yum!!!
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Feb 23, 2015 @ 17:28:28
Your post took me back to when I taught. And, ah yes, those teacher training days!! Good to see that maltesers are being so meaningfully employed. I wonder if Mars Bars could be used, or Yorkies or boxes of Terry’s all Gold. Who thought up the maltesers and meditation thing I wonder. Smarties make you clever. Discuss.
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Feb 23, 2015 @ 18:07:09
To be honest, I was just thrilled with the Malteasers!! My favorite!! And we could try others, but due to nut allergies etc, we couldn’t possibly let children eat them, so as responsible adults, we’d have to test them all out…😊
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Feb 23, 2015 @ 16:55:12
What a great work day! Now I have to run out and by a box of Maltesers and meditate in front of the computer. 🙂
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Feb 23, 2015 @ 17:09:02
Malteas-itate!!!! I like it! I can definitely fit 10 minutes of that in a day, I just might not fit in my clothes much longer!!
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Feb 23, 2015 @ 17:14:18
It’s called “Relaxed Fit” I highly recommend it. 🙂
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Feb 23, 2015 @ 18:04:11
You mean elasticated waist?! Lol! I’ll be turning into my mum before I know it!!
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Feb 23, 2015 @ 19:04:51
LOL, if only there was a low cal. chocolate. 😉
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Feb 23, 2015 @ 22:35:28
But it would taste yuck!!!
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Feb 23, 2015 @ 22:36:34
OK rubber pants it is! 😀
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Feb 23, 2015 @ 22:37:13
😁
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Dec 21, 2015 @ 15:04:34
i love it!!!
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