Denmark - land of Vikings and mermaid statues. There are probably some other things too, but being an ignorant bunch we are going to have to find out from Brontë, our new Danish friend who started working at Fruit Towers last week. Brontë is our People Person, and she has some funny dots over the last letter in her name, which was one of the main reasons she got the job. Being the People Person means that she'll be making sure that everyone who works at innocent is as happy as can be, which involves ensuring that we employ nice people, getting everybody trained up so they've got good skills, and deciding what colour the loos should be painted. Brontë is from a place in Denmark called Hong (the 'o' has got a line through it but we couldn't find it on the keyboard) which is famous for its cheese. Indeed, her granddad was a famous cheesemaker before he passed away. Anyway, we'll have more Danish facts next week in Danish Corner, the first in a series that will carry on until we run out of things to say.

PS If you want to work at innocent, there is a new position on the Jobs page this week. We need a Production Clerk to help us work out how many oranges need squeezing and how many bananas we have to mash, and to also help out in stock control, forecasting and generally making sure that our drinks are in great condition. If this sounds like you, click here to find out more.

Someone broke the window in our front room over the weekend. If you know who it was can you let us know at halfabrick@innocentdrinks.co.uk? Thanks.

Are you bored? Feeling lonely? If so, may we recommend coming to the Total Sandwich Show this week? It's being held at Olympia on Wednesday and Thursday 7th and 8th May, and is full of everything to do with the wild world of sandwiches. We'll be flogging our stuff on stand C11 and would love to see you for a quick drink and a chat. Incidentally, and in a completely unconnected fashion, June Whitfield just came into our office and had her first ever innocent drink. She's smaller than she looks on the telly.

As a dry run for next week's first proper edition of Danish Corner, where Brontë will tell us something interesting about Denmark, we would like to inform you that you can now buy our drinks at The Jorvik Viking Centre in York. As we mentioned earlier, the Danes are renowned for their Vikings, but you don't have to go as far as Copenhagen to learn all about them. The Jorvik Viking Centre is the place where "archaeologists discovered the preserved remains of Jorvik - the place the Vikings once called home. They used that evidence to create one of the world's most enthralling reconstructions of the Viking Age." Go see it for yourself.

No sooner had Brontë and Adam started working here than along came Mark, an attractive young man who has upped the handsomeness barometer (or something) here at Fruit Towers. Mark has come to work alongside Barney, so he'll be out there selling our drinks on the road, and joining in with everyone else at innocent in trying to convince Barney to wear his cowboy boots more often. Mark has proved to be elusive on his first day here, so it's quite difficult for us to tell you too much about him. Suffice to say he seems like a lovely man, he's got a nice smile and he once built a fire station in Chile, as you do. We look forward to finding out more about Mark and passing on any unfounded tittle-tattle as we get it.

If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Professional golfer? Sex-change doctor? The person who changes the bulbs in the Blackpool Illuminations? Some people here at innocent would like to do the following things; that is, they'd like to do them if they weren't so content with their present jobs/lashed to their swivel chairs with lengths of strong fishing line:

• Daisy - Prince William's personal stylist
• Adam R - any one of those jobs that Madonna lists in the silly rap bit in her new song
• Brontë - farmer's wife or Elvis's mistress
• Will - hot dog vendor at Pacific Bell Park, San Francisco
• Mat A - park ranger, a bit like Grizzly Adams

But there are other jobs out there, including the position of Sales Analyst right here at Fruit Towers. The job spec says that "your role is crucial to monitoring the performance of the company within our outlets, depots and across the grocery trade." I think you've got to be able to use Excel as well, which rules me out. Anyway, if you want to find out more, check out our Jobs page. Good luck.

As promised, here are some more facts about Denmark. Brontë, who is our new People Person, is full of interesting stats and information about her homeland and likes nothing better than sitting down with a nice cup of Danish tea and telling us all about it. This week we learned that there are more pigs than people in Denmark. And Brontë also informed us that she went to the same school as Denmark's greatest ever pop sensation, Whigfield. She reckons that the Saturday Night dance probably originated in their playground. But she definitely kept the best for last, shocking us with the news that people in Denmark they don't call Danish pastries Danish pastries. They are actually know as Wienerbr¢d, which means 'Vienna Bread'. Those crazy Danish guys, etc.

Is that the sound of a drum roll in the distance? Or a fanfare of trumpets heralding a new dawn? Actually, it's probably just the number 94 heading for Acton Green, but we shan't let that put us off celebrating the arrival of two new thickie recipes. Yoghurt, boysenberries and wild blueberries arrives in the shops this week, along with yoghurt, mangoes and coconuts. We've been working on these two recipes for a while, and are happy to say that they both adhere to our thickie spec of containing just healthy bio yoghurt, pure fruit and honey. So that means no stabilisers or gums, and it also means that our coconut milk is proper coconut milk. We salute our Nikki, who hunted around for real coconut milk for ages, and finally found some that contains no funny stuff; it's just made by pressing coconut flesh and a bit of water till you get some nice milk. Well done Nikki.

You can't have your yin without a bit of yang, so we'd like to say goodbye for now to two stalwarts - yoghurt, strawberries and mangoes, and yoghurt, banana and cinnamon. They are making way for the new recipes (see above), and are taking the chance to have a rest and spend time pursuing new hobbies (watercolours and rodeo riding respectively). If you were a fan of one or both, please don't cry. They might come back one day if they are good.

If you miss them already, please send your consolatory words to imissyou@innocentdrinks.co.uk

Here is another job vacancy going begging at Fruit Towers. This position is for that of Marketing Assistant, and means that you'll be getting involved in making sure our labels, adverts, website and everything else look and sound lovely. You'll also be helping to organise parties and events, and generally making sure that everything we do remains nice and innocent. Click here to check out the details.

All of the above stories are a bit work-related, so we thought this week we would do an extra bit and tell you all about lemurs. Lemurs are animals that live in the sea. They have sharp teeth that they use to catch their favourite prey, which are blackbirds. Lemurs are unusual in that the family unit is made up of three individuals - the mother, the father and the part-time lover, whose job it is to stay at home, make the bed and be ready for some part-time loving whenever the mother and father are bored.

If you know anything else about lemurs, including true stuff, let us know at lemurshavenicefaces@innocentdrinks.co.uk. The best three facts win a case of drinks each.

We are approaching the end of a great time. Sadness looms. Children cry openly in the streets and somewhere in the distance a mournful wolf howls, underscoring the devastation that awaits. Yes, it's the last week that you'll be able to buy our seasonal recipe for spring. There'll be no more lychees and passion fruits for you, but to console you, our summer recipe should be in the shops next week, and it's definitely the summeriest thing we could think of, so we reckon everything should turn out happy ever after. The End.

Every Monday morning we have a big meeting where everyone shares their news and we take the mick out of anyone who's wearing the new shoes they bought at the weekend. A high point of this meeting is reviewing Rowena's Merit Marks, a points-earning system that rewards good deeds (e.g. putting new loo roll in the loos, helping Lucy to cross the road, buying Dan cheese and grapes and fine wines) and punishes bad acts (dumping your washing up in the sink, leaving a half-eaten crab sandwich in one of the Cow Vans, not complementing Nina on her new choice of hair colour). Some people are so bad that they actually dip into negative Merit Marks territory - in other words, they have done more bad stuff than good stuff. And the person with the lowest score must serve penance by going down to Buchanan's (our local organic café/sandwich shop) and delivering their weekly supply of smoothies . So that's what The Buchanan's Run is. Today's miscreant was Richard, who currently has -1 Merit Marks. Bad Richard.

Marcel is back. He's the nice man who was our very first designer, and is responsible for helping us make all of our labels, websites and stuff look great. He moved back to South Africa last year - something to do with sunshine and favourable surfing conditions - but he's come to London for a quick visit. We call him The Hamster because he looks like he stores food in his cheeks, and also because he lives in a little cage with a wheel. Read more about him and others who once loved us right here.

We've given out lots of free drinks in the last couple of weeks to people who have answered questions about dogs and lemurs (well done Terri, Sue, Toby, Louise, Frances and Jon). But this week we want to give out even more. There are five big fat free cases of our drinks up for grabs, and all you have to do is answer two really easy questions:

1. What is your favourite innocent drink? (just choose one)
2. What other innocent drinks do you regularly buy? (you can choose more than one)

Choose from this list of all of the nice drinks that we make, and email your answers to mynicedrinks@innocentdrinks.co.uk:

oranges, bananas and pineapples [smoothie]
mangoes and passion fruits [smoothie]
blackberries and blueberries [smoothie]
cranberries and raspberries [smoothie]
strawberries and bananas [smoothie]
seasonal smoothie [er, smoothie]
pink grapefruits, pineapples and lime [really lovely juice]
oranges, mangoes and lime [really lovely juice]
apples, blackcurrants and elderflower [really lovely juice]
yoghurt, boysenberries and wild blueberries [thickie]
yoghurt, strawberries and mangoes [thickie]
yoghurt, mangoes and coconuts [thickie]
yoghurt, boysenberries and blueberries [thickie]
yoghurt, vanilla bean and honey [thickie]
yoghurt, bananas and cinnamon [thickie]

Please be assured that none of this information will be released to a huge marketing corporation who will then track you down and sell you rollerblind shutters as recommended by John Stalker, former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police.

Danish Corner and Scandinavian facts will be back next week.