Dancing round a firelit cauldron under a starry midnight sky 🍁🌙

There is such a deep peace and tranquility to total detachment. All the stresses and issues we experience are from identifying with the body and mind. Detaching and realising none of that is you is so freeing. That way even if your body is feeling anxious, stressed, worried, sick and so on, you simply observe it and thus don’t suffer. It’s like watching a character in a film, it doesn’t affect you.

The I, the self is a total illusion and it’s kind of scary how unreal it is when you truly think about it. Who is the self? Just a walking hunk of meat + thoughts + emotions?? But you are not your thoughts, you are that which perceives them. There is something totally neutral and peaceful which is aware of what you’re thinking, which realises the thoughts you’re having. That is the self. Pure awareness, no thoughts, no worries, no anxieties. Just pure being. Detaching from all things associated with the body and stepping into a state of awareness is true salvation. You can then remain in this everlasting state of immortal peace while you simply observe your body and what it does. There are no others. There is only an endless ocean of awareness in which everything appears and takes place.

Making this so I have somewhere to call my own where I can post, even if much less frequently than my previous blogs which are now all rotting cadavers in this site’s recycle bin. An inglorious end, but it really was for the best.

well hello there, whittard enthusiast.
I am happy you have a new place to post, I am banging my head against a wall because there's unsolvable problems :/
Seems like the work we're doing is out of my colleague's paygrade... good to know now eh

I'm reading about cave hyenas and cave lions. They used to live in Britain, I--. So strange when you find out that an exotic animal that is so iconic of modern Africa used to exist here, in England's green and pleasant land. Thank Odin they're gone though because imagine not being able to do beautiful nature walks due to fear of being pounced on by a cave lion and screaming very loudly as it tears you limb from limb.

Hello, Whittard Gentleman. How are you doing on this wretched, rainy day?? Well if it's out of their paygrade then they shouldn't do it, simples!

Yeah uh.. they tried their darnedest - we got so far on their expertise over me
I went to whittard and I tried some of the concoctions the staff make happen
Luxury Hot Chocolate + hazelnut syrup is pretty good ("Not Quite Nutella" they called it)
Luxury White Hot Chocolate + hazelnut syrup is absolute dynamite. > White Chocolate Kinder Bueno

could make these yourself if you wanted though with other hot choccy

Do you have a PhD in Whittard by any chance? Because you sure seem to know a lot about it! I’m taking notes btw, your thesis is very useful to me!

The kinder bueno one made me splutter. That sounds better than [censored because otherwise I’d get permabanned]. Kinder bueno on its own is mythological in its taste so anything made from or flavoured with it is triple X rated food porn. I wonder if a kinder bueno Whittard is nicer than a kinder bueno milkshake though..? The latter already makes me enter into an altered state of kinder konsciousness so I expect Whittard would too. But it sounds like something the staff made and not a product that’s for sale? Please tell me that isn’t so…

Btw, I finally tried the rocky road mint Whittard hot chocc I got in Oxford. I couldn’t be bothered to heat the milk so I just launched a few teaspoons into cold milk. It didn’t dissolve very well at all, clumps and clumps everywhere no matter how fast I stirred. I created a vortex in the glass because I stirred so fast. The spoon was a blur. Anyway, it was still delicious!! The mint melted my jaffa cake heart. I gasped and smiled and sighed with total serenity and immortal peace. It cured all my problems and improved my salary. So I cannot wait to try it with warm milk. However, I do consider myself somewhat of a hot chocc connoisseur and I maintain that by far the best one in terms of solubility is Nesquik. That one dissolves even in cold milk like a dream and I spent many a summer’s night glugging away while in my grandparents’ garden looking at the stars and hearing bagpipes in the distance. Oh heavenly hot chocc. My constant companion and my sweet soulmate.

OOOHH
The Hot Chocs ideally need some warm to dissolve in (they use a little amount of hot water to dissolve it in store when they make them) then can top with milk

The Nesquik is fire. You censored yourself - I wonder what would have been there if this was not TSR
Fun Fact: I have actually tried some of the supermarket own branded jaffa cakes - they taste virtually the same as name brand LOL!
I am probably going to get a freebie one as I have filled a loyalty card they give some extra stamps sometimes too!
Got some fun at work today lol - spending it doing documentation - and calling someone about a houseshare later too

Could be moving closer to work next month!

The use of all those smileys is terrifying and creepy and sassy and chilling...

Oh no. Hot choccs with hot water are vile vile vile. I will not touch them and if I accidentally do I'd wash my hands more diligently than if I touched a corona particle. It must be milk and only milk.

Yes, Nesquik is boss, Nesquik is NesKING. Oh, you really don't want to know what I censored and in any case I can't say it because then my account will be dissolved faster than Nesquik dissolves in cold milk. Hmm, I suspect a lot of own brand things taste similar or the same but they always have crusty and unaesthetic packaging which puts people off. The supermarket psychologists know how to brand things to catch our attention whereas they probably get the junior interns to do the packaging for the own brand products which is why they're so unappealing. Anyway, I'm also a jaffa cake connoisseur so I will try the own brand and give my verdict. Which supermarket did you get these from, Sains or Tes??

Lmaooo, you and Whittard freebies, stop rubbing it in!!!

That would be good, moving somewhere new is always a lot of fun and very interesting! You get to explore, explore and explo-

^ Cupcakes turn them up
To everyone this morning: what’s up?

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I swear to Apollo, if a thread I’m getting so much rep on gets binned one more time I’m going to f–