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| Stars in their hats |
 As the Big Knit finishes for another year, we’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on the brilliant, complicated and occasionally weird hats that all you dedicated knitters have sent us over the last few weeks. But it hasn’t just been us everyday folk getting involved, oh no. The great and the good from the world of celebrity put down their martinis and closed their exclusive oak doors to well-wishers to take time out and design us some hats too. If you’ve ever thought to yourself “Yeah, I like her in this film/TV show/perfume ad campaign, but what I really want to see is what sort of miniature hat she’d design” wonder no more my friend. For here they are. |
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 Fridges are boring. They never say anything even remotely clever or interesting and seem to be content to just sit there all day, taking up space in your kitchen, not entertaining anybody. Well not any more. Now they can be a source of many a good time with our free mix and match magnets, currently in boxes of our kids wedges all over the land. So pop out and get some, even if you have a fridge that talks and is really funny. They’ll still make it better. www.innocentkids.co.uk |
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| Moustaches, mo problems |
 The end of November is very good for two main reasons. Firstly, you can buy an advent calendar, and secondly, Movember has reached it’s hairy peak and raised loads of money. As did many fine men around the globe, some of the more hirsute chaps at Fruit Towers grew big and odd moustaches in the name of charity. Here they are in all their unkempt beauty. Look upon them and bask in their wispy, slightly off-putting splendour. They raised over £500 for prostate and testicular cancer and their girlfriends all boosted sales of razors almost immediately afterwards. Good on you fellows.
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| As most of you will have noticed, on Tuesday it snowed. It snowed quite a lot actually, unexpectedly leaving us trapped in the office. Initially, there was a real atmosphere of bonhomie, and we sang carols and told tales of adventures, all gathered around a drawing of a fire that we had done to raise spirits. However, we ran out of food quite early on and have now started eating each other to survive. There’s no real system in place, but we seem to be going for people that have names that sound a bit like foods first. If you happen to be in Sheperds Bush and fancy chiselling us out that’d be great. But don’t turn up looking delicious, because we will eat you. |
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 Christmas is well and truly on its way. If you fancy receiving a little something from us this year, pop your details here and we'll do our best to pop something in the post to you in time for Christmas. We've extended the deadline so you've now got until 11am on Monday 6th December. |
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Under the sea
Cool photos from the set of Star Wars
Monster Supplies
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| Only time for a single click this week? Better make it this one. What's the all about? Just click the birdy and it will let you re-tweet any of our 'and finally' links at the touch of a button. It's all about word of mouse these days. |
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| Kate’s preparing to go back to Australia and everyone in the creative team will miss her, but none of them are sure why they will, Ben turned 25 and celebrated by being mistaken for a vagrant outside a train station, we had a mexican movember lunch, and George was threatening to wax his tache off for charity. He wimped out. The number of amazon parcels being delivered has gone up by about 1000% as the 1st of Dec approaches, Kat got the flu, there were bacon sandwiches at a meeting, and everyone was annoyed by the tube strike. |
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Dannii's cat is wearing
a big knit hat. He looks very fetching. Does this mean we've made it?
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Sorry, just realised the cat in the hat is not your cat. Got excited there. If you'd like one
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SOOOOOO excited about my veg pot delivery on Wednesday. Yippee :)
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This week’s Bob of the week is Bob from the episode of Blackadder with Bob in it. Bob was really Kate, who came to London to earn her fortune, disguising herself as a boy so she could work for Blackadder as his manservant.
Blackadder falls in love with ‘Bob’ and hilarity ensues. Worth watching just for Captain Flasheart turning up, which was always great. Know a good Bob? Nominate them for our Bob of the Week right here
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This week’s corner of the week is ‘The dodgy corner’. You know, that corner where the streetlight is broken and it smells weird.
And those people hang out there looking menacing and even though they never really say anything when you walk past you can tell they don’t really like you and that they’re probably thinking something like ‘look at his rubbish fleece’. Ignore them, it’s a nice fleece. Stay away from that corner. |
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| Big Knit Hat Tag Winners Announced |
 Our Hat tag competition has come to an end, and we've been made very aware of just how good people are at holding up a miniature hat and taking a picture of it so that it looks like it's on someone or something. Our illustrious winners are listed here, and their sterling work, along with all other entries can be found here. Top work all round. |
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 We're very pleased to announce that we've teamed up with the National Schools Partnership to make a brand new lesson plan for key stage 2 children calle 'Fun Fruity World'. By signing up, your school can get healthy eating and geography lesson plans and activity sheets that will get kids thinking about fruits and where they come from. There's also a website where they can do loads of fun stuff and teachers can download all the stuff they need for their classes. If you'd like to get involved, here's where to sign up |
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| Gingerbread village |
 The innocent cake club can usually be found drinking tea whilst debating butter cream consistency or chastising amateurs on the dimensions of their Victoria sponge. But this week they've out baked even themselves by building this amazing gingerbread village. The village not only boasts a school, a cottage and a gingerbread 'gentleman's club', but also the most delicious looking graves we've ever seen. We're not allowed to eat it though, although a couple of almond roof slats are missing.
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| As we mentioned last time, for the best part of last week we were all snowed into Fruit Towers and had began eating each other for sustenance. You'll be glad to hear that the snow has now thawed and we are free. There are a few hangovers from our time together though. Most notably that rather than working in teams, we are now all in 'clans' each with an alpha male and an idol carved from a printer. Also, we do now have a few vacancies due to some people being more delicious than others, so do feel free to have a look at our jobs page. |
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 Making Future Magic: iPad light painting! (thanks Emma H)
Dog With Real Eyebrows!
Ask a Flowchart: Should I Delete My Tweet?
Airport and Station Announcement Chime Sounds
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| Emilie is putting on an Ethiopian lunch for everyone, Jenny popped in for a visit, Shun has drunk his body weight in Lemsip, Louise bought a top that she thought was a dress, Jo Jo was snowed in, Samuel's clippers broke, leaving him with his Movember moustache and Tim received about 39 advent calendars from various well wishing companies. |
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Today our Kat, Tansy and Zoe spent a day volunteering with @g00dfornothing have a nose at what they got up to here >
 @Arjun_Dave
@innocentdrinks had the first smoothie of my life ever yesterday, then went and bought 4 litres and loads of veg pots. let the healthy begin
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This week's Bob of the week is Bob Barker. Not many people know him in the UK, but he's a beloved gameshow host in America.
 Despite hosting 'The price is right' for 35 years, his finest hour is appearing as himself in Happy Gilmore, beating up Adam Sandler on a golf course, which you can see here. Know a good Bob? Nominate them for our Bob of the Week right here
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With Christmas approaching, this week's corner is the one that Little Jack Horner made famous in his self-titled smash hit nursery rhyme. In the rhyme Jack uses his thumb to find a plum in a Christmas pie, much to his own delight.
It remains unclear whether the owner of the pie was as thrilled as Jack, or how hot the pie was. Jack Horner's career in fruit finding and lyricism is as strong as ever, and he is currently working with Take That in both capacities. |
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 2010 started well. Not only did we have fresh breath, a pet rabbit and an impromptu adventurer plug from Bear Grylls, we also officially became part of Simon Cowell's rider. Not bad for rainy January. |
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| February |
 February was all about love. Peachy (and raspberry) love. Pug love. Crochet lamp post love. Bottle bottom love. And a whole lotta of egg love. |
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| March |
 The world cup debate started early in March. Cake Club excelled themselves with spring sponges galore. Linda told us all about the eco loo from Peru, Johnny Ball popped in and Andy pulled a van. Again.
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| April |
 April was a buzzy old month. We turned 11, Alex Horne became 3,103,235,293 in the oldest man in the world ranking, our lemon, honey and ginger recipe returned in a bid to save the bees and a chap called Gordon Brown dropped in for a cuppa. |
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| May |
 Unless you were wearing industrial steel tipped ear plugs, you’d have been hard pressed not to know that we had our 3rd AGM back in May. Complete with questions, cake and a chap called Luke with a head cam, it was a great day and we’re already planning number 4. In other news, we launched our new kids website, the old jokes home opened and the chilli competition got hotter |
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 Apart from supporting Recycle Week, June was pretty quiet. The odd whale sale. A pencil win. And an annoyed penguin. But not much else. So here are the best links from the summer instead.
Old spice, new spice
When good food goes creepy
Friday dance
Young me, now me
Old but good
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| July |
 July was packed. The inaugural innocent Foundation day took place on 21st July with guest talks, llama finger puppets and a potato loo. Nutritionist Ness came up with a healthy cake recipe, the ‘would you rather…’ competition continued and Mark conquered the Etape leg of the Tour de France to become Master of the Mountains, King of the Hills, the Bikeonic Man etc. |
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| August |
 Back in August, Rich got followed by a camera and sound crew, Philippa brought her dog in, waste not want not was the phrase of the month, Alex Horne got a bit older and Atha taught us an amazing game. |
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| September |
 From the Wall of Peace to a pea filled peaceful lunch to our peaches and raspberries smoothie, September was all about helping Peace One Day spread the word about international Peace Day on 21st September. Gav’s mum also cooked lunch for the entire office. The menu? Rice and peas of course. |
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| October |
 If you walked past an old tram shed in East London during the first week of October, you might have stumbled on our 5 for 5 cafe. For just £5, you could pick and choose your way to 5-a-day from a tasty menu designed by celebrity chef Gizzi Erskine. And as well serving over 5,000 portions down the caff, Emilie headed off to Ethiopia, our veg pots turned 2 and the hats properly started arriving… |
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| November |
 “Remember, remember to knit for November". Clearly that catchy rhyme still works a treat as thanks to your knitting generosity, we had our biggest Big Knit ever. Over 625,361 hats were knitted to raise money to support Age UK helping keep older people warm in winter. The Great Recipe archive launched to save all good recipes for future generations and tagging went crazy. |
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| December |
Since there are still a couple of weeks of December left, it’s a tricky one to sum up. So instead, here are the most 5 watched links of the year for you to enjoy now or just after you crack into the third tin of Quality Street.
Red car rollover
8 bit invasion
Right drummer, wrong gig
Sit and get fit
Disco dance like it's 1983
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@innocentdrinks
As you request, we agree drink or eat only Innocent Smoothie in 2011. No other food or drink. Will it make us a fruit?
@innocentdrinks @FunkinFit If the transormation hasn't started already, you can expect to have seeds for organs & stems for arms by the new year. Embrace it
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@innocentdrinks I feel it in me already. It's a strange feeling however very pleasant also. I send you photograph evidence when I be banana.
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In this week's Bob of the Week, we'd like to pay homage to all the Bobs who've graced these digital square inches over the last 12 months. From Sideshow Bob, Bob Holness and darts legend Bobby George to a menagerie of cats, horses and llamas, there have also been all the excellent Bobs that you've very kindly sent in.
 So as a festive salute to all good Bobs, here's a picture of possibly the best bobsleigh tree decoration ever made. Know a good Bob? Nominate them for our Bob of the Week by sending a picture to iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk and it could be their face here in 2011. Ho ho Bob indeed.
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This week's Corner of the Week is dedicated to the good folk at the Post Office. Whatever you're doing right now, stop, pick up a pen and finish/start writing all your Christmas cards.
Go on. Do it now, then pop on a stamp, get them in the post by Saturday (2nd class) or Tuesday (1st class) and then bask in a angelic glow, safe in the knowledge you've spread tidings of good cheer and not given the postman a hernia. |
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Secret Santa sorted
Tiny nativity
A broccoli carol
Snow joke
Have yourself an LED Christmas |
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