Summer definitely arrived at the weekend. It was really hot, and then it rained for quite a while (or at least it was like that round our way). So this is a good week in which to unveil our seasonal recipe for summer - cherries and strawberries. It's very tasty, and as summery as spending all of your loose change in the arcade whilst your mum and dad get some fresh air on the pier. Our seasonal recipe is available from all of the usual places, so get it while you can, and if you send us a picture of you drinking one whilst wasting money in the arcade, we'll send you some nice drinks. Send pics to holdthebells@innocentdrinks.co.uk

NB We do not condone gambling on fruit machines or anything like that at all. Stick to the dodgems.

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We have always wanted to employ someone who is good at ice skating. So it gives us great pleasure to welcome New Lucy to Fruit Towers. New Lucy used to be very serious about her ice skating, but she has slacked off a bit since her teenage glory years, and now favours watching TV whilst eating her favourite vegetable, the beetroot. It's her first day here today, and already we have found out that her top ice-skating move is the double lutz double toe loop, which is a combination jump. Impressive. New Lucy will be working with Original Lucy and Nikki in our shiny development kitchen, coming up with new recipes, blinding us with food science and feeding us with gossip about what really went on between Torvill and Dean.

Another good thing about summer is our big fat tour of this green and inclement land. Our Dancing Grass Van has been given a final spruce up before hitting the road and will be visiting just about every corner of the UK and Ireland, What's more, the nice innocent people who are driving it will be giving away tasty drinks and hopefully brightening up your day, if the idea of a big ice cream van covered in grass and daisies is the sort of thing that brightens up your day. During the course of the summer, we hope to add two more DGVs to the current fleet (which numbers one). So you'll stand a better chance of bumping into one of them, and stand a better chance of winning some nice drinks. All we want you to do is send us a picture of a DGV on the move, to slowdowniwanttotakeyourpicture@innocentdrinks.co.uk. Sorry, no stationary shots allowed.

PS This week the DGV will be in Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells and Croydon.

Joby got a bit fed up everyone looking at him while he was doing important design stuff, so he built himself a partition wall out of some old boxes. Click here and feel the quality.

The return of Danish Corner has been prompted after receiving an email from Guni, who has furnished us with the following facts about Denmark. So here is Guni, in her own words:

• The Danish flag is the oldest existing flag of a nation. It is also called the Dannebrog and allegedly fell out of the sky on a particularly bad day during a long war against the Swedes. People with leather patches on their elbows probably know the correct facts about this event.
• Denmark has the longest coastline in proportion to land mass in the world.
• Danish women smoke more than any other European women - this is a bit naughty.
• After Holland, Denmark has the most bicycles and you can hire a 'city-bike' in Copenhagen for a quid and hand it back when you are ready just like a shopping trolley.
• Denmark did not be participate in this year's Eurovision Song Contest because we got 'nil points' last year and are very ashamed.
• Denmark was the first country to recognise same-sex civil ceremony marriages.

Well done to Andy, Chris, Louise, Nicole and Victoria. You are the people who won drinks by telling us what your favourite innocent recipes are. And thanks to everyone else who sent us in their thoughts.

We thought you might like to know a bit more about the bottles that our drinks come in. Admittedly, they aren't the most stimulating of conversational topics, but they do a vital job and shouldn't be overlooked just because they are a bit boring. Anyway, the important bit of news we wanted to share is that our bottles are now made from 25% recycled plastic, which we reckon makes us the first soft drinks makers to use recycled PET (which is the type of plastic we use). Our aim is to one day pack our drinks in 100% recycled stuff - this isn't technically possible at the moment, but you can be assured that we are working closely with the nice people who make our bottles to come up with a solution. If you want to find out more about recycling plastics, http://www.recoup.org/ is a good place to start.

It is our privilege to introduce you to another new person who started working at Fruit Towers today. We realise that we seem to tell you about new people all the time, but everyone is unique and special in their own way and deserves their place in the sun. So this week we are bienvenue-ing Michelle, who has just arrived in the UK from Auckland in New Zealand. She's going to be our Sales Analyst, so is quite good at sums. And although she claims to be 'quite normal', we found out the following slightly odd things about her:

• Michelle likes wakeboarding
• She is quite 'bendy'
• Mushrooms make her life worth living

We look forward to finding out all about 'bendy'.

Boots has always been one of our favourite shops. They have a very good selection of deodorants, develop your photos really quickly and if you accidentally fall over while you're out doing your shopping, there's usually a branch handily placed so you can buy some plasters. Well, we now have even more of an excuse to visit, as our drinks are stocked in there. They're not in all Boots stores yet - just the bigger ones. But it's a start.

Last week we asked you to please take a picture of yourself drinking our new seasonal smoothie for summer whilst wasting money in an amusement arcade. Sadly, only one person rose to the challenge, and that was Phil, who works for a software company who invent computer games. He sent us a picture of his colleague Emma playing a game called Rayman whilst drinking our drink, which impressed us greatly. So thank you to Phil and Emma.

Our very own New Dan, aka Other Dan aka Dan S, spent Sunday making chutney, which apparently takes 2 months to mature. No boys at innocent have ever publicly announced that they made chutney at the weekend, which is why we are sharing this with you, and is why we will be sure to keep you updated. Dan had a busy weekend - he won £100 with a winning bet on the Derby, so for horse-racing tips and chutney recipes you know who to get in touch with. And ladies, he's not single (but will listen to offers).

Holland. Land of clogs, windmills and a liberal attitude towards the possession of so-called soft drugs such as Tatu picture discs and Haze plug-ins. We are big fans of Holland, especially Amsterdam, and try to get over there whenever possible for a relaxed stumble up to the Rijksmuseum, but now we have even more reason to make the journey. A shop called Gary's Muffins has started selling our drinks, in five Amsterdam stores and one place in Rotterdam. Gary is a real bloke, and his company motto is "You ain't seen muffin yet". This makes us even more keen to do as much business with Gary as possible, as you can imagine.

We would like to see a picture of someone drinking our drinks in Holland. Send us your photos to thelegendofgarymuffin@innocentdrinks.co.uk before Friday 20 June and you could win the following:

• A mixed case of drinks - for a picture of you drinking an innocent drink in a Gary's Muffins shop
• An innocent recipe book - for a picture of you with Gary Muffin (the bloke)
• 3 mixed cases of drinks and a recipe book - a picture of you drinking an innocent drink with Gary Muffin (the bloke) whilst wearing clogs quite near a windmill/dyke/tulip field

It's hot. It was hot at the weekend and it's hot today too. We might even get a summer at this rate. Anyway, a nice place to cool off when it's hot is the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Amidst the throbbing chaos of stinking London, it stands proud and undaunted, it's high ceilings and opulent spaces providing the perfect backdrop to classic works of art from all four corners of the earth. The fact that it's free to get in and that they've got nice pumping air-con should not be underestimated either. Anyway, as you will no doubt have worked out, they've just started stocking our drinks as well, which will in no way contribute to the cultural significance of the gallery, but it should make some hot people less thirsty.

Karma is a beautiful thing, the concept being that if you do something nice for someone, the chances are that something nice will happen to you. Of course, you might not always feel that karma is working for you. Indeed, quite recently our Kylie helped an old lady across the road, only to arrive back at the office to find that someone had nicked the half bag of crisps she'd been saving from off her desk. But we reckon that in the long run, karma works, as it did recently for an innocent customer called Jon who donated a case of our drinks to Great Ormond Street Hospital. Jon thought nothing of his gesture until a short while later, when he received a nice letter from the taxman, saying that he was entitled to a rebate of £500 because the Inland Revenue had got their sums wrong. Om.

Who knows, you might learn something...

• An alarming percentage of the population of Iceland (c.60-70%) believe in elves.
• Scandinavian people are very fond of the lingonberry. You can buy lingonberry jam at Ikea.
• Nokia (a Finnish company) started off making Wellington boots before they moved onto phones. You can check out their boots here

Hair is an odd thing. You generally don't have much when you're born, and then it tends to disappear as you get old, but in between there's quite a lot of it about. And it's those in-between years when we have a lot of fun trying to make statements and belong to certain social groups according to what we do with our hair. There are mohicans for crazy teenage punks, side partings for important business people, and those rat's tail things for blokes who strap you into the waltzer at that dodgy fair on the common. Here at Fruit Towers we also have our hair clans - The Mel Gibson circa Lethal Weapon 1 Getting Fluffy At The Back Crew (Adam, Alexis, Old Dan, Paul), the Starlets With Flowing Hollywood Locks (Daisy, Michelle, Nina, Ailana, Assia, Kylie), the Neat And Tidy Chaps (New Dan, Mike, Brett, Jamie, Richard) and the Short And Manageable Ladies' Style Group (much more practical on a weekday morning) comprising Original Lucy, Nikki and Simon. Anyway, we're only rambling on about hair because someone was spotted drinking one of our drinks on BBC's Cutting It last week. Unfortunately it wasn't Amanda Holden.

PS Rhino horns are made out of the same stuff as hair. They are a bit like the crispy hair you get when you use too much gel.

Our friends at The Lunch Run in Letchworth make a mean cheese and pickle sandwich. And when they're not doing that they like to help people out a bit. They held a charity fun day at the weekend, to help raise money for children in care, and the nice thing is that they raised £700 for their chosen cause, a local hospice that helps patients with terminal diseases and more specifically, children who lose parents and family members from these diseases. Jim from The Lunch Run said that about 200 people attended and they were all chuffed with the free innocent drinks, which was the least we could do to help out.

Sometimes you ask for stuff and you just don't think you'll get it. Once I asked for a Bigtrak for Christmas but all I ended up with was some Six Million Dollar Man pastry cutters. But I sort of knew that this would be the case. It's all about managing your expectations. So when we asked for a picture of an innocent drinker wearing clogs standing in front of a windmill with Gary, the man who runs Gary's Muffins in Amsterdam, in last week's news, we didn't really expect anyone to come up with the goods. But we were wrong. A wise and resourceful Irishman called Enda called our bluff, trumped our ace and put us over a barrel. He quite literally did all of the clog/windmill/Gary things mentioned above and sent us a photo* all the way from Amsterdam. And so he wins a nice big prize.

Of course, we are not going to let resourceful Irish people spoil our fun, so this week we want to get pictures from people doing the following:

• Drinking one of our drinks, naked, in Iceland, whilst enjoying a round of golf with Bjork, Chevy Chase and Ant Jones off of Grange Hill.

You win not one, not two, not even three, but five whole cases of drinks for doing this. Good luck. Oh, and you have until the end of this Friday 27 June to do it. Email your pictures to hello@innocentdrinks.co.uk

*PS the scanned picture wasn't good enough quality to stick on the web, so here, just for you, is a different picture that also got our attention last week. It's of a man called Alan kicking his pants in the air on his honeymoon. Alan wrote to us last week to check that one of the exercises on our thickie labels (The Pant Flick) hadn't been stolen from his repertoire. We assured him that any likeness was purely coincidental, and we are now pleased that the case is closed so that Alan doesn't send us anymore snaps from his personal collection. Click here for Alan's pants.

Due to a malfunction in the innocent newsroom last week, we failed to show you pictures of Gary Muffin and our new friend Enda proudly wearing clogs and standing in front of a windmill whilst enjoying our drinks in Holland. It was a quite amazing feat - Enda rose to our challenge ("we would like to see a picture of you drinking an innocent drink with Gary Muffin whilst wearing clogs quite near a windmill/dyke/tulip field") which, quite frankly, we hadn't expected anyone to do.

So here you are - pictures of Gary Muffin and our new friend Enda proudly wearing clogs and standing in front of a windmill whilst enjoying our drinks in Holland. Click here to have a look at them.

Time for some pop news. As you may have guessed, we love a bit of pop here at Fruit Towers. And last week was massive in terms of pop news. First off, a load of innocent people went down to Glastonbury with the Dancing Grass Van to sell some drinks and dance about to the happy happy sound of Radiohead. And we also received the news that our drinks are now on sale at Abbey Road studios, the place where music history was changed forever in the 1960s when Cilla Black recorded 'Alfie' in Studio One. Then we heard from Keith from The Prodigy, who took delivery of some of our drinks before a performance by his new band Flint. Keith said that "pure decadence is having two innocent smoothies in the space of 30 minutes", and who are we to argue with a twisted firestarter who has a big bolt through his nose? Finally, last week we paid tribute to the undisputed kings of 'nice' hip-hop when we gave some drinks to De La Soul for their after-show party. Our Simon went to see them play, and after the show embarrassed himself greatly by telling Mase from the group that he "really really loved him".

For no particular reason, please look at this website. Appreciate the man, the mystery and the moustache. Also in banana news this week, we hear that you can use banana skins to clean your shoes. We haven't been brave enough to try this out yet, but if you have any joy please let us know.