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| this week's news is as jolly and high pitched as a bunch of little cerulean chaps putting on their happy hats and going down the woods for a good old sing song. Imsmurf yourself right here. |
| Caption competition round two |
 Our recent caption competition for our orange and apple juice labels was such a run away success, that we've decided to do it again. Last month's winner was Leyla whose winning words for the lemur can be read right here. This month, it's the turn of the sheep. What is he thinking? Why is he looking so confused? What has made him cock his little wooly head in such a quizzical manner? The answer is up to you. Just post your witticisms here and the winning caption will win a sheep dip full of goodies*. |
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| Mr. Ed's odyssey |
 Joining the cycling ranks of Mark and our friend Nick, next Sunday, Mr. Ed will be saddling up on his trusty steed and cycling 2,500 miles from Shepherd's Bush to Istanbul via Europe. It's all for a very good cause and he's been training hard, eating his own bodyweight in peanut butter and marmite sandwiches in preparation (as well as the occasional training ride through West London). So if you happen to be in W12 at about 2pm on Sunday and the smell of yeasty peanuts wafts past, keep your eyes peeled for a tall chap wobbling along a heavily laden bicycle or just check out his progress right here. |
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| Mum's the word |
| In case you'd forgotten, it's Mother's Day on Sunday. If you're reading this and realise that you've just missed the last post/didn't book the train home/failed to buy the final box of All Gold down the corner shop, remember to pick up the phone and give your mum a bell this Sunday. |
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| Easter come early |
 Easter's nearly here. It's no Christmas, but people still like to give each other stuff so we'd like to send you a little something in the post. It's definitely not chocolate (we've eaten our quota for April already), but it's still a little something nonetheless. Just fill in your details here (by April 6th) if you like little somethings. |
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| And finally... |
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Big big place
Brolly annoying
Family fashion
Pong master
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Only time for one click this week? Open up the beard door Open up the beard door (thanks to All New Stu for this link)
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. |
| *for sheep dip, read a big box |
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| Inside Fruit Towers this week |
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| Delia became a UK citizen (well done and welcome), Bryony mainly wore expensive cardigans, Scott K's girlfriend made the kiwis, apples and lime cake, Samuel caught a fishy cast, Gayle and Oscar popped in to say hello, Andy K managed to sell the noisy parrots and we made a human rainbow. |
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This week's Bob of the Week is BBC Bob. According to Alison, Robin and Stuart, BBC Bob's nickname is not down to the fact that he works for the Big British Castle but because he sounds like a radio announcer who might work there.
 In addition to his name, Bob likes things that begin with B. Mainly bicycles, beer and Brentford FC. They're playing this Sunday at Wembley. So wish them luck on behalf of BBC Bob and his fluffy mascots. If you know a good Bob, let us know. Email
iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk and it might be their face here next week. |
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Following on from last week's Corner that is not a Corner of the Week, Jennie kindly sent us another corner imposter. Muckley Corner (down Staffordshire way) is also a roundabout which has absolutely no corners either and has led to many a thwarted rendezvous ('Okay. See you at 7:30pm on the corner of Muckley Corner').
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| At the time of going to virtual press, |
| the weather outside was gloriously sunny. So may we suggest showering yourself in this week’s fragrant news and then getting yourself down the park for a spring filled fix of vitamin D quick smart? Off you go. |
| Get snap happy (and win stuff) |
 Seeing as we’re as giddy as a gaggle of grappa soaked geese about our new alphabet magnets in our kids’ smoothies, we’re going alphabet crazy with our snap happy game. Every day from 28th March, we’ll be celebrating one of our A-Z magnets, starting with the letter ‘A’. If you’ve got the magnet for that day*, simply take a picture of it next to something that begins with the same letter and send us your photo via Twitter (@innocentdrinks and #innocentkids) or post it in our flickr group here. The ‘a’ magnet in an apple tree, at the airport, on the back of your pet aardvark, that sort of thing. The most creative photo entry each day will win smoothies delivered to their door and a special limited edition magnet t-shirt featuring your favourite magnet. To play and win, just click here. |
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| Mini movie countdown |
 Just 3 weeks to go until the deadline for our Mini Movies competition (17th April) and if you’ve not entered your film yet, then there are £200 Amazon vouchers up for grabs for the video submitted between Monday 28th March and next Monday lunchtime that racks up the most views (as well a chance to win the overall prize). And if that’s not enough to get your camera rolling, here’s some tip tops from our director friend, Ben, to inspire you no end. Lights, rubbish props, camera, action (and all that). |
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| Neon hour |
 Saturday night is Earth Hour night, where at 8:30pm across the globe, people everywhere will be switching off their lights for one hour to make a united stand against climate change. In support of Earth Hour, everyone at Fruit Towers is coming into work on Friday dressed in the brightest gear they own (as well as turning off their lights tomorrow night). You can find out more here. However, if you’re reading this on Monday, make sure you turn up to work on Tuesday head to toe in day glow and write it in pen in your 2012 diary immediately. Or just pin this chap up above your desk with ‘Earth Hour March 2012’ marked on his forehead. That should remind you. |
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| And finally... |
Nine eyes (thanks to Sisternoodle for this link)
Flower felony
Cup cake (thanks to Vicky for this link)
Hello Spring?
Alternative boat race |
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Chipping away in Chipping Camden, frantically filing in Filey or busy book looking in Reading? Only time for one link 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. |
| *don’t worry if your letter isn’t featured. It’ll be definitely pop up over the 26 days so keep checking back. Happy snapping. |
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| Rachel R gave away a washing machine, the unclaimed £25 in unit 6 went to Anna’s Comic Relief fund, Lucy F’s Girl Guide group made too many cakes, Ben H spent a day crawling on all fours for charity, Lucy T’s jelly mate popped in for a visit and Andy K tried to find a Parisian nest for two homeless parrots who also double up as excellent 6am alarm clocks. |
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This week’s Bob of the Week is Bob Ball. Bob likes popcorn, writing in CAPS and taking naps as well as biology and bowling. Bob was nominated by his friend, Mary, who wrote a poem in his honour. It’s quite long so we’ve just included the final verse.
 His glasses are shiny,
his beard is so sleek,
Bob Balls is my Bob of
every week.
But I don't mind sharing
him with you
The lovely innocent
smoothies crew.
Know a good Bob?
Let us know here
iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk |
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When is a corner not a corner? When it’s a roundabout. A roundabout that’s called Caenby Corner. So if you’ve spent the last few years, going round in circles, tirelessly searching for the actual corner of Caenby Corner, stop now.
 Thanks to Harriet E for letting us know and stopping all future Caenby right angle related pilgrimages. |
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| We've scrapped the lizard people story, |
| cut all references to Dean Gaffney and removed the story we try and sneak in every week. One day it'll get to you, and when it does, you'll never look at the world in the same way again. For now though, you'll have to settle for what actually happened this week. Ho hum. |
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| The kids are more than alright |
 Especially with all the stuff we've got for them this week. For starters, our brand new fridge magnets are now on shelf, nestling inside boxes of our kids' smoothies. With special shiny ones and some that glow in the dark (handy for midnight snacks/leaving messages for burglars), the alphabet has never looked so hot. We've also got a new telly ad out which can be seen right here. And if that's not enough, we've also launched our spanking new game, Bananaplane, to wile at least 2 hours away on. Kids these days, eh. They've never had it so good. |
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| Win a box o' books |
 Following World Book Night the other week, we have 25 sets of 25 titles to give away to 25 lucky winners. The titles include Life of Pi by Yann Martel, One Day by David Nicholls, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Selected poems by Seamus Heaney, Toast by Nigel Slater and the very excellent Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell to mention but a few. That's summer holidays sorted for the next few years. To be in with a chance of bagsying yourself a bag o' books, just click here. |
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| Healthy cheesecake |
 Unless you've given up everything beginning with 'c' for Lent like Tansy (who has outlawed all cheese, chocolate and cake until Easter), you might fancy trying out this recipe for Big Apple Cheesecake, kindly sent to us by Hester. Hester is a cook who likes to turn simple into magical and has cleverly made this cheesecake using our kiwis, apples and limes smoothie. We're yet to try a slice ourselves but are hoping Hester will drop one by next time she's passing the Goldhawk Road. Make your own here and do feel free to send us a slice. Just in case Hester doesn't come up trumps. |
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The Queen Mum's tunes
Potatoes for pudding
That's one big Moon
Shark slide (thanks to Himcalledtim for this link)
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Feeling a little blue? A bit Woey Chloe? Too sad to click on more than one link? Try this for a pick-me-up (thanks to Ladytim for this link)
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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| Amy employed brownie bribery to get people to read her report, George carried a cricket pitch on his back, Delia, Carla, Kerry and Marta went to watch ballet dancers get shouted at, Will J passed up a night of adventure, Tom became the dream crusher and Helen L tried to shift a wardrobe, a breakfast bar and a matching stool. |
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This week's Bob of the Week has been nominated by his friend, Karryn. Back in January, Bob (pictured) tied the knot to the loves of his life - his beautiful bride, Kirsty, a pint of Guinness and a paper bag of Flying Saucers. It was a touching ceremony by all accounts.
 Know a good Bob? Hit us up
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This week, it's Lego Corner. Tucked away in the Austin Convention Center of the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, this corner has no height or age restrictions whatsoever.
 Come one, come all and build spaceships, medieval castles and plastic ring road infrastructures to your heart's content. |
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| Some out takes |
 Entries for our mini movie competition are coming in thick and fast so if you're still toying with whether to enter or not, we thought we'd whet your filmic whistle by mentioning that there are weekly prizes for the most viewed films. This week, it's £150 of Amazon vouchers up for grabs. So get filming, get uploading and get ace free stuff (if you get the most views). |
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| Some breaks |
 You may remember Samuel from previous newsletters, under such guises as Samuel the Sustainable Gorilla or Samuel the Pink Bishop On A Lunchbreak. Well, this week, he features as The Breaker Of All Things Samuel. To date, that includes all his toes, 4 fingers and his right heel, a torn Achilles tendon, some lightly shredded knee cartilage and a gardening fork through his foot (plus the welly he was wearing at the time). He's just come back from a skiing holiday with a broken coccyx and a wrist in plaster. And after tearing his right bicep and not getting it repaired, he now only has a monocep. Great with computers and fancy dress. Less great with screw drivers. |
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Hot dog salsa
Superhero on your street?
Political pancake pursuit
Magda and Lenka
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In need of a one click wonder this week? Here you go
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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| Pancakes replaced chocolate spread on toast as the 3pm snack of choice, there was a team outing on an open top bus round Richmond, Jack moonlighted as an angel for the day, Joe M ate a bonsai orange, Clare refused to eat her macandcheese in the Cave, Shun bought some new beads, Chicken Club continued, several people attempted al fresco lunching and Arjen cut off his curls. |
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This week's Bob comes from Cornwall. Bob is 3 and ½ years old, lives by the sea and does a mean impression of a nonchalant meerkat. Her full name is actually Chillipepper Bob but her owner, Ailsa, usually calls her Bobbi.
 Know a good Bob of the Week? Nominate them here
iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk |
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This week's corner of the week is Short Cut Corner. It's where all the corners that get cut go to live. So next time you think about rushing that report, not hoovering the bathroom before mopping
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| Welcome to Month 3 of 2011. |
| Or Week 9 if you’re Swedish. In case you’ve been hiding in a cupboard like a big legged lizard since 1st of January, allow this week’s news to get you up-to-speed with some of the less important stuff you might have missed whilst wardrobe sulking. |
| Dinosaur discovered |
 After being lost in a museum cupboard for centuries, Brontomerus Mcintoshi was reunited with the world in February. Milllenia in a closet and then when you do come out, everyone calls you Thunder Thighs. Talk about being mocked by gait. |
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 Turquoise is so 2010. This year’s colour is honeysuckle. Courageous, confident, beloved by hummingbirds everywhere, this brave new shade is ‘guaranteed to produce a healthy glow when worn by both men and women.’ So dress in head-to-toe for instant radiance/hummingbird. |
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| Pancake countdown |
 We last mentioned pancakes 29 days ago. If you took our advice (which was to start flip practice immediately in order to nail P Day on Tuesday 8th March) then all you need do now is work out which filling you’re going to have first. However, if you chose to ignore our gentle nudge and haven’t even thought of lemonsbutterandsugar, we suggest you either get a mechanical friend on the case or go home right this instant and don’t move from the stove till Wednesday morning. In other words, better get the batter on. |
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| Whinge o’clock weather |
 Four weeks ago, we told you that if the weather was rubbish in February, then summer would be a belter. Given that we got this information off an old wife, she was a bit sketchy on what the rule for spring was. So whilst we’re not made up that it’s still raining, we’re still not going to start officially whinging until the clocks go forward on 27th. |
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| Obligatory fruit plug |
 In fruit related news, there have been some tasty developments in the world of apples. Some interesting sculptures involving cherries, pineapples and melons. And the occasional orange here and there. But no new species of neon pink grapefruit discovered by a famer under a sofa in Idaho. Still, there’s another 9 months to go… |
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Robo rainbow (thanks to Tim Otay for this link)
What is food? (thanks to Klinger for this link)
Pirates trump ninjas
City by type (thanks to Tigerkat for this link) |
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Only time for one hot new move this week? Bodypop those rainy day blues away
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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| There was a special Welsh photo shoot for everyone from the valleys, Lucy T organised an olive oil taste test, Bryony returned from the land of ping pong, the silver Mondeo returned to wreak blocking-in havoc, no Time Lords popped in, a Kiwi yeast based spread appeared in the kitchen, Katie warmed up for book clubbing and Helen L gave away her free standing floor fan. |
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Bobbles, BobBob, Mr. Bobalina, Bobsicle, Bobalicious, The Bobster - this week’s Bob goes by many names but always answers to his owner, Kristy. Especially when dinner and flowerpots are involved.
 Ginger but not a whinger, he also likes sunshine and empty laps. Know a good Bob? Email us at
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This week’s Corner of the Week is I’d Like To Thank Corner. You’ll need a posh frock, a friend-in-a-tux, plus a torch, an envelope, a heavy paperweight and a captive audience. Simply stand around for a few hours, chatting silently in an animated fashion, doing lots of impromptu hilarious but silent laughter and looking hopeful, not bitter. If anyone looks at you, do all the above but with teeth.
 Then get your mate to shine a torch on you as they open the envelope and announce your name. Hug everyone sharing your breathing space, jog to the corner, brandish the paperweight aloft and thank as many people as you can in 45 seconds before jogging off to spend the afternoon walking like a teapot and looking over your shoulder in a smouldering manner. |
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