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| That's the look we're channeling this week. For more cutting edge, fashion forward, finger-on-the-pulse news, read on. |
| Mini movies winner |
 After months of lights, camera and miniature cape action, it's time to announce the results of our Mini Movies competition. Our special judging panel whittled down the hundreds of entries we received to 5 finalists for you to vote for your favourite. The votes are all in and we can now announce that (drum roll) the Mini Movie of 2011 is (pause, suspense, hopeful looking camera faces) That's why they call him a smoothie by Antoine Lyons, Liam Nugent , Michael Spencer and Robin Persaud for their mini masterpiece. As well as winning £5000 and 2 tickets to the BFI London film festival, this dream team will also have their work aired on telly. Or you can watch it here right now. Big congratulations to Antoine, Liam, Michael and Robin and of course, thanks to everyone who entered, voted and took part. |
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 Our Rich was the central panelist on last week's The Apprentice: You're Fired. If you missed it, you might be able to catch him in full t-shirt blazer glory playing 'guess the fruit' with the first victim of Lord Sugar's pointy finger right here before BBC iPlayer changes. If you're reading this after episode 2, you'll just have to take out word that Rich did us proud and didn't make anyone cry/hurl their wheely suitcase at Dara. |
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 Remember that bit in Playschool where you had to guess which window would be chosen that day? Would it be the square, the circle or the funny arch thing? Exciting wasn't it? Well, in a bid to build suspense and anticipation for something very exciting that we've made, we'd like you to guess which one of these shapes will feature heavily in next week's news? (Clue: it's not the sharp banana). |
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 Yes. That's right. Our lemon, honey and ginger recipe is back. But this time, it really is the farewell tour. Maybe in thirty years time or so, it'll come out of retirement, don some spray on jeans and do the Farewell farewell tour. But for now, better drink it, bathe in it and enjoy it while you can. |
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 Burger man (thanks to Dadgerman for this link)
Instant fringe
Robot monument (thanks to Benston for this link)
Modern day miracles (thanks to Gorgeousgardan for this link)
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Only got time for one click this week? Fire away (thanks to Twotiertim for this link)
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| Big well done to Tom for winning last week’s Peppersmoth competition. T shirt and mints on their way very soon along with minty goodness to Jeen L,Matt M, Rajen, Claire B, Nikki C, Cari, Greg W, Laura, Martin P and Elizabeth S. |
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| Someone put a red rectangle across Europe, the missing grass vans all turned up in Germany, Christian introduced his creative boxes, Kamal discovered some bears, Oli wore Jojo's tache t-shirt, a swan fished the fish pond and Fruitstockvillagefetefruittowers3 Jenny said goodbye. |
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This week's Bob of the Week is a Bob joke. What do you call Bob the Postman after he retires? Bob.
 Know a good Bob?
Let us know here
iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk and we'll stick them up here. |
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This Week's Corner of the week is Competition Corner. To celebrate the winner of our mini movie competition, our friends at Diva popcorn have kindly given us bags to give away to 10 lucky winners for a proper film night in.
 We'll throw in some smoothies too so all you need to do is invite your friends round and pick a good film. Entering the competition might help too. Do so right here. |
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| Our news this week is environmentally friendly. |
| It’s eco aware. It went through some tough times at the end of the 60s and hid in Brian Wilson’s sandpit for a while. But now it’s OK. We hope you like it. |
Some things about our new home
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 We’re still getting used to the new place. And still finding out a few things about it. For example, we now know it’s classified by BREEAM as a 'good' building, which means it has internationally recognised environmental credentials. The 'good' rating means it's well insulated with good air circulation and energy efficient lighting, among other things. To help, we also put one of these levers [pic of lever] on every floor, which you pull if you’re last out at night. It turns off the circuit which powers all our lamps, monitors and phone chargers, but leaves the vital stuff (like the lifts and the servers) on. Clever. |
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| One good light, one bad light |
 There are also these green lights in our new place. One of them is good. It comes on when the temperature outside is equal to the temperature we want inside, cutting the air conditioning off. The fancy name for it is mixed mode cooling, and when it happens it means it's time to open the windows, check out what the geese are up to and embrace the fresh air. The other light is not so good. It means the world is about to end. Guess it’s good to get a warning, but still... |
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| Tease tease tease |
 Something good is coming. Something full of recipes. Something book-shaped, with words and pictures in it. Something we’ve been working really hard on. Something that made us stay up late. Something that we’d like you all to have in your kitchens. Something that adults will like and kids will like. Something that has a photo of a really elegant moose in it. Something we’d like to tell you all about, properly, in detail, next week. Is that OK? |
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| Some questions we’ve been asking |
 We asked these questions on Monday on the blog, but we’re not sure if we’ve had the best answers yet. We’re sure that if some of you take a look at them, it might help us rest easy in the coming days, knowing that we knew the answers to the most important questions of the week. Can you help?
If so, go take a look and give us the answers. |
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| And finally... |
Toothbrush disco
Cat wigs (thanks to Nick for this link)
How not to get stuck on Mars
Exploding melons
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Need a one click wonder this week? Wobble off
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Corns popped
Big well dones to last week’s competition winners Steve B, Wendy B, Lauren L, Jane, Heather, Pauline, Mrs. Shelley and Jo. Boxes of Diva popcorn winging their way to very soon. |
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| Homemade muffins and flapjacks kicked the week off in style, Clare and Ruth made friends with Mary Portas, the parasol blew into the duck pond, Prasad drank tea out a wineglass (again), Eva laughed solidly all the way through her company update, Rich went for drinks with Tony (Blair), and Ben lost his flip flops for an hour. |
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This week’s Bob of the week is Mr. Dylan. Yes, yes, avid Bob readers will note that we’ve had him on here before. But it was his 70th birthday this week. And he is the best Bob ever. Even after that Christmas album. So a very happy belated birthday, Bob. Hope you had a lovely one.
 Know a good Bob? Nominate them at
iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk
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| Korner of the week |
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This week’s Korner of the Week is Alexis Korner, father of British blues music and possessor of a fine gravelly voice.
 After inventing the blues, Alexis, went on to invent the Stones, Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Sort of. What a man. More about Korner with a K here |
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| Falcons descend on their prey in a logarithmic spiral |
| Komodo dragons favour the slightly less elegant but no less effective sniff and charge method. Barnacles however just sit back, relax and let the good stuff wash over them. Which is exactly how we hope you'll ingest this week's news. |
| Totally mint competition |
 Overdone it on the pickles at lunchtime? Mouth a tad stale or slightly fuzzy? Fear not, because help is at hand from our friends Dan and Mike at Peppersmith. Following their triumph in the world of natural gum and ever concerned with the state of the nation’s dental health, they’ve started producing mints. They’ve very kindly sent us a few boxes to give away. To be in with a chance of getting hold of some and transforming your breath from less than fresh to fabulous, all you have to do is answer this very simple question here |
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| How to wear bright trousers |
 Having recently tackled the very real problem of shoe storage and showcased the many and varied benefits of wearing bright clothes, we thought you might appreciate a few pointers on one of the more challenging trends of the season. Far trickier than the bright short or the bright skirt (due to the sheer quantity of fabric), the bright trouser is not for the fashion fearful. Here are our top tips:
1. Do not be alarmed if the local wildlife displays an increased interest in your legs.
2. Be bold. Salmon pink denim, while an excellent choice, doesn’t really count.
3. It’s likely that someone (probably wearing top-to-toe grey) will think it’s cool to embarrass you in front of your colleagues. This is okay, because you look amazing and the image of your outfit will remain emblazoned on their retinas for hours to come, while theirs will soon be forgotten. |
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| Right royal knees up winner |
 If you’re of sound mind and have a life of your own, you’re probably a little bit bored of the endless royal wedding chatter. So we’re sorry to keep going on about it, but we thought it only right to let you know who won our right royal orange juice competition (where you could win a visit from our Dancing Grassy Van to your street party and a load of Buck's Fizz to accompany the big day). There were love declarations from across the land but in the end it was Lucy from Fulham who won us over with her 'Kate and Wills' themed party (complete with a Top 40 countdown from 1981 on cassette tape, a royal kissing competition and some scotch eggs). Click here to see more of the action. Weird hats and balcony kisses not included. |
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Giant bucket list
Sci-fi Ikea Manuals
Extra large bibs
Daredevil adventures
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Last chance this week, one last click...The joys of parallel parking
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| We said hello to Marie and Jessica, 1 canal boat, 1 mallard and 4 pigeons were counted during the Monday morning meeting, Rozanne went deep diving with a T Rex, we wished we were a little bit taller, Kamal complained about the taps, a pigeon crashed into the second floor window, everyone donned their finest pastels for a yacht party and Sandwich Man was nowhere to be seen. |
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This week's Bob of the Week is Bobby from Home and Away, the husky voiced rebellious teen who met her end in a boating accident in 1993 (but then briefly reappeared in 1995 when Ailsa Stewart had hallucinations of her in amongst the milk and juice cartons in her fridge door).
 Know a good Bob?
Let us know here
iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk |
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This week's Corner of the Week is the far back left corner of the Very Useful Drawer in the kitchen. Home to takeaway menus, used and new batteries, pens that don't work, the instruction booklet for the DVD player before last,
 a pack of cards and a lone screwdriver, it’s the corner where stuff that you don't know where else to put (but have a strong gut feeling that you shouldn't throw away) goes to rest. |
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| Only 24 days to go till your next 4 day week fix. That’s 34,560 minutes, 345,6000 seconds or the entire back catalogue of On the Buses (including Christmas specials) 17 times over. However you like to countdown, allow this week’s news to inch you that bit closer to the next Bank Holiday. |
| Birthday summer lunching |
 Can you remember how you celebrated your 12th birthday? Ten pin bowling? Make your own pizza party? Soft play? We turned twelve over the Easter holidays and since we’ve just moved next to a canal, we had a belated Venetian themed birthday lunch to celebrate. Stripy tops, lasagna, Italian bingo (complete with Dan P’s Italian accent), prosecco and a masked opera on the bridge (followed by Joe M clambering up to reward Janel’s serenade with a rose, delivered via his teeth). Next year, it’ll be cider and snogging down the park to welcome in our teens. Looking forward to it already. |
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| Balmy summer lunching |
 With the recent balmy weather, summer seems but a mere sniff away. So it seems a fitting time to introduce you to our new special guest veg pot recipe – Thai vegetable sweet chilli. We’ve mixed sweet baby corn, crunchy water chestnuts and red peppers with an array of Thai spices, lemongrass and added a little chilli kick for a spot of hot summer lunching. With only 213kcal per pot, it’s our lightest recipe yet. Meaning there’s no easier or tastier way to fine dine your waistline this summer. Enjoy. |
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| Sustainable strawberry water crunching |
 Jess, Rozanne and John T have just come back from Spain, having visited some of our strawberry farmers to see how our water efficiency project is going (we’re running it in conjunction with the universities of Cordoba and Cranfield, and Unilever and the WWF as well). The study is measuring exactly how much water is being used to grow our strawberries and looking at ways to improve water efficiency. The aim is to work out how everybody and everything who uses water to grow these fruit can get what they need (without anyone missing out). As well as a lot of irrigation chat and fact finding, it also involves sampling quite a lot of strawberries. Or in John T’s case, several truck loads. Find out just a bit more about the project and just how many boxes John consumed right here. |
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City strolling
I spy mile high (thanks to Germainiac for this link)
Station stickers (thanks to Timbo for this link)
No white? Alright (thanks to Timsnotgrim for this link)
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Malinna premiered her kitchen, Adam went mike free, Jon
plumped for stereo, the metal
milk udders ran out, Tim’s jumper was the first casualty of carryinghotdrinksupstairs, the horses filed past again, an authentic Italian ice cream van popped by and James P’s champagne tan started to peel. |
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This week’s Bob of the Week is The Voice of Bob. His name is actually Neil and you may have seen him on the telly advertising DIY and hanging out with his friend, Martin (who is now a doctor down in Cornwall). Without Neil, the builder of Top Ten fame would be silent, less fun to watch and have meant Christmas 2000 was a little less jolly. So here’s to Neil who is Bob (and Tony and knower of the best bedding plant/shelving unit deals going)
 Know a good Bob?
Let us know here
iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk |
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This week’s Corner of the Week comes from Abi E and is known as the Cornerfish. The Cornerfish is the corner of your bed which is closest to the wall and is, according to Abi, the cosiest, coveted and most secure spot to sleep in.
 So when it’s chilly out, you should always aim for this corner. Especially if you’re sharing your bed. Abi has been practising Cornerfish ever since her friend Tim told her about it in the summer of 2005 and has never slept better since. So now you know. |
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