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| In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket. |
| Fishing with a bow and arrow is also banned and every citizen of the state is required by law to take a bath at least once a year. This week's news has no such censorship or regulation whatsoever. So lean back on your Cornetto and read on. |
| Love Food, Hate Waste |
| We're very proud to announce that we're one of the first businesses to sign up for the Feeding of the 5,000 Food Waste Pyramid. It's been developed with Love Food Hate Waste to help businesses save resources and stop waste going to landfill. At innocent, we already have lots of reduction targets in place and give any excess drinks we have to Fareshare but it's always good to get better at this sort stuff. Especially when you're part of a pyramid scheme that actually works. To see how your workplace can benefit, just click here. |
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| (Ware) House clearance |
 Thanks to everyone who got in contact about taking our tat last week. We managed to shift quite a bit before the reclamation men took the rest. Apologies to those whose emails we received after the removal men had been. Next time, we promise to have an official catalogue with itemised lots, a man with a hammer and that orange chap with big hair to give you tips on antiques of the future. |
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 To say thanks for reading our ramblings all year, we've got a tiny gift for you. When we say tiny, we mean very small but extremely thoughtful. It's a case of first come, first served, so if you'd like one, please do rush at once and let us know here, otherwise you'll be left sobbing sooty little tears into Santa's lap.
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 Space balloon (thanks to Kevin K for this link)
You know muffin
Clam dram (thanks to Burts Crisps for tweeting us this link)
Go down to the woods today
Snoremouse
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Need something to roll you head first into the weekend, fist pumping, jazz hand jumping and trying to avoid bumping into all the shoppers in Milton Keynes? Cliff yourself happy here
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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| Inside Fruit Towers this week |
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| IT got jerky, Vickers and Spad went elbow sniffing, Steve caught an office cold, Ben cut his hair in a coffeeshop, Rich C wore the bestsocksever, Sarah K served smoothies on a tiny blue tray, John T came dressed for training, and we tried out some new coffee beans from down the road. |
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This week's Bob of the Week is guaranteed to lift your heart, massage your soul and get everyone in the immediate vicinity bobbing along. Cartoon fish, broomsticks, Angela Lansbury on a floating bed and an octopus in a straw boater playing the drums. What's not like? Off you Bob.
 Know a good Bob? Nominate them at iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk and their face could grace this space. |
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Grey. Pigeony. Leaves everywhere
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| That’s the view from the window this week. Now for some slightly sunnier news. |
| Pick your own |
 Fruit picking? In November? From the comfort of your desk/sofa/studded Chesterfield? Go ahead and rub your eyes because this time you can believe them. We’ve made a new game called Fruit Picker where you have to steer our fruit pickers to the right fruit piles without letting them crash into the other fruit pickers you’re also steering. It is immediately addictive and if you get good, you can win all sorts of prizes - from carafes of our juice through to Amazon vouchers and even an iPad 2. Simply for moving pixelated wheelbarrows to virtual fruit piles. Oh yes. To have a go at winning some very real prizes in a very virtual orchard, just click here |
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| Return of the Tweet |
 After a small hiatus, this week sees the triumphant return of Tweet&Eat. Last time we ran it, T&E caused such a stir that it was tweeted over 12,000 times and even Pixie Lott got involved. After seeing Ms. Lott with a pot, it would have been rude not to run T&E again. So that’s what we’re doing. Same deal as last time. We’ll give away loads of money-off coupons for our veg pots but you decide the value. The more you tweet, the cheaper you eat. The more people that tweet #tweetandeat , the bigger the discount. And if we get enough tweets, you might even get a free veg pot. That’s right. Free. Tweet and Eat is only back for 4 weeks so you know what to do (hint: click here) |
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 Yes, it is November. No, it is not the traditional time of year for a spring clean. But we’ve run out of space at our warehouse* so conventions are being binned and we’re having a clear out to get back some shelf space. Amongst all the randomstufftogetridof, there are:
10 feather flags
Large plastic letters (G & B)
A box of white material
1 mini sound system
486 banana bags
2 bits of black concrete (50cm diameter)
A wooden plant pot
7 bum bags
14 hoops (no further description - just hoops)
A grassy trolley
If you’re interested in purchasing any of these items or just taking them off our hands, simply email hello@innocentdrinks.co.uk and if they haven’t been picked up by the next passing circus, we’ll let you know.
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HOTW
Moustairs
World's nicest train tunnel (thanks to Mr. Bierman for this link)
When animals become tools (thanks to Zoesotherhalf for this link)
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All got a bit too much this week? Need a break? Want to see what actually happens during the breaks? 5-4-3-2-1 and action yourself up right here (thanks to Germinge 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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Chrissy got seedy, Delia, John T, Annika and Alex S all came back from South America (the holiday destination of November), Vickers lost her pencil case, Shun learnt about quinoa, Sam’s team decamped to Esher and the lady from the Clothes Show with the grey streak walked her dog past the office.
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Bob of the Week this week is Bob’s Fruit Stand over in Vancouver. Every year, Bob and his family go off and pick the finest local fruit and veg and then sell it on their stand down Delbrook Plaza. When they get bored, they make dinosaurs out of squashes.
 They’re shutting up for winter this Sunday but are open again in June 2012 so you’ve plenty of time to plan a visit. Meantime, why not have a go at making Bob’s award winning recipe for Turnip Fluff? Know a good Bob? Nominate them at iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk and their face could grace this space.
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This week’s COTW is Auction Corner. There are now 5 of the little wooly hats (as knitted for the Big Knit) up for grabs on eBay. You can bid for a genie (and his lamp), a mole, a rabbit, a sheep or an owl.
If we were the tipping sort, we’d subtly point towards the owl as a sound investment, given that he got over 1,000 votes when he won the coveted Hat of the Week competition. But then maybe your miniature hat collection is already abundant with cashmere owls. Maybe you have inside knowledge that knitted moles are set to trend in 2012. Or maybe you just want the rabbit. Whichever it is, bid away and help a good cause while you’re at it.
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| ...it squirts out its seeds in a poisonous juice that will sting your skin. So if you only take away one thing from this week's news, let it be that it does not pay to cross a cucumber.* |
| The dragon |
 Our Rich was back on the telly this week with the very tall dragon, Peter Jones. Peter came into Fruit Towers earlier this year to do some filming for his new show called How We Made Our Millions. It's all about Pete going into businesses, getting to know the entrepreneurs, finding out what makes them tick, what drives them to be successful, how they organise their stationery cupboard and so on. The first episode with our Rich aired on BBC2 on Wednesday night. So if you fancy seeing Dan's special yellow outfit and Oli's ankles frightening Peter, you can watch it again here. Rich also answered questions after the show on our Facebook page, so you can check out his answers here too. |
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 This poster (currently gracing the back of our big cartons and little bottles) has prompted quite a lot of calls. Turns out lost socks are a BIG DEAL and the plight of many a chilly toe. Given the high volume of calls we've received, we thought it only fair to do things properly and put it out to the wider public. Take a good look at this sock. Closer. Closer still. Now. Is this actually your sock? Is it really? If it is, all we ask is that you pop its brother in the post to us and upon identification, we will return the reunited pair to you in a velvet lined box accompanied by a crate of smoothies and a menacing looking chap in an armor plated van. Usual address. |
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 Staying on the very loose cucumber theme, we move to our final story this week. The peeled and sliced cucumber is often sighted in the Greater Afternoon Teas, nestled between sandwicheswithnocrusts. However, when it comes traditional petit fours, our Clemmie is pushing the doilie. Come 3 o' clock, she nips down to the kitchen, juliennes said cucumber like a fiend and then daintily dips her floppy crudités into a teaspoon of Marmite. Not a tablespoon or a massive blob. Just a level teaspoon served on a bone china plate with a kitchen towel napkin. Talk about taking it to another tier. For a closer look at a lady what munches, click here. |
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 Still eeking out the dribs and drabs of Halloween, this week's HOTW battle is between Mr. Potato Head and Alfred the Squib. No idea where Alfred came from. Or why he is smiling so menacingly. Perhaps it is a ploy to unnerve the nose right off Mr. Potato Head. Perhaps he is just full of the joys. Who will win? Will an array of knitted facial attributes be left scattered on the woollen ring floor or will spud trump squib? You decide. |
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Daily levitation
Penguin pullovers (thanks to Lady Bee for this link)
Cats and ladders (thanks to Mrmason for this link)
Jump in my car
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Bit all over the place this week? Feel like you keep messing stuff up? Make it all better with a proper dog's dinner (thanks to Oliolialwaysjolly 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.
*and that goes for flicking the gherkin out your burger in a disgusted manner.
Just remember who he's related to…
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| Gurdeep wore his Snoopy cardy, Janel gave a towel drier lesson, the post ghost got louder, Jillian defined the true meaning of stand up, Lewis started his tash, Ruvan had his fifteen minutes, another film crew turned up, Vics sorted a rad pad, Gibbo started a personality war and Jo D organised a human fireworks display in the chill out. |
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This week's Bob of the Week is the best place in town to go if you're called Bob and you want a Bob which won't cost you more than ten Bob. Bob the hairdressers.
 Disclaimer: Other haircuts are available and you do not need to have been christened Robert in order to get an appointment. But it helps. Know a good Bob? Email iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk and your Bob might well be the next BOTW. |
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This week's corner is the corner of no return, the corner of no escape. It's the point where you have been 'backed into a corner', where there is nowhere to run,
nowhere to hide, no option left whatsoever but to accept the sugar lump, saddle up and leave the toasty hay bed to take Tallulah for a quick canter round the paddock followed by a bit of bendy pole practice before the gymkhana.
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| "Jungle Woolly (Get down), Jungle Woolly (Ah), Jungle Woolly (Shake it around)." |
| And as the intro to Wool & The Gang's 1973 classic, 'Jungle Woolly' fades away, we'd like to welcome you to The Big Knit newsletter. |
| The Big Knit 2011 has arrived |
 Hold on to your (and our) hats, because our woollen topped bottles are back in Sainsbury's stores right now. And from Wednesday 9th November, they'll also be in Boots stores. If you don't know what the Big Knit is, it's our charity campaign (partnered with Age UK), to help make winter warmer for older people. For the next few weeks, our smoothie bottles will be wearing little woolly hats in participating stores, and for each hatted bottle sold, we'll give 25p to Age UK. Each hat has been hand knitted by a real, actual and very kind human. Maybe even your Gran. Get down the shops pronto to grab one or keep reading on. |
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| What's that? You want to find out a bit more about the Big Knit, where it came from, how it works, and what it does? All in one handy and extremely well made little film? Well, you're in luck because we've made that little film and you can watch it right here. It features some hats being knitted (for real), some moving pictures, sounds and the velvet voice of our Joe's Dad. Cast your eye over it here. |
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 Now that the hats are back, we've also launched our imaginatively titled Facebook game, 'The Big Knit hat tag game'. It's just as simple as last year. Get a hat, take a picture at a distance of your subject so that it looks like someone is wearing the hat [include attached picture], then go to our Facebook page, upload your pic and then get your friends to vote. We'll be giving away smoothies each week to the best pictures, and awarding £500 in Amazon vouchers to the top 3 photos that get the most votes overall. So potentially, one well placed hat could sort out all your Christmas shopping. And fr a little extra incentive, for each photo submitted we'll give an extra 10p to Age UK, and we'll also donate 5p for every day that you vote. So get tagging.
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 This week it's The Wide Eyed Owls from the depths of the woods vs The Cable Knit Jumpers from the depths of the cupboard. Go pick a winner.
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We still have a few hat tag starter kits to give away. Sorry we messed up last time and the link didn't work properly. Just click the link, enter your details, and keep your fingers crossed for a free kit.
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Hacking IKEA
The internet circa 'Space Jam'
Welcome to The World Of Tomorrow
And He created dough
It's Garlic
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And if you're really bored and love cats, boy are you in the right place Loads of cats
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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A massive printer arrived, the IT team bid a very fond farewell to Andrea, John D went snazzy in royal blue, Jo T had a little boy (hello George), zombies went partying, Lou celebrated her crushed fruit decade, someone locked their bike to Gayle's and made her late, everyone started Monday morning with a spot of Thriller dancing and the whole office turned proper spooooky for the day.
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This week's Bob of the week is Mark 'Bob' Whalley. Nobody knows how he got the nickname Bob, not even him, but one thing everyone knows is that if you need cheering up, put some pegs on his face and let the good times roll.
 Bob, we bow down to your mighty and weird talents. Know a good Bob? Nominate them at iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk and their face could grace this space.
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Right now it's pretty much the only type of corner we're interested in. Look at that wool work.
The playful elegance of the bit of black wool, dancing daringly amongst the snowy white tundra that is the bit of white wool. It's poetry, it's soft and it is, dear friends, knitting.
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