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| "While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping…" |
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."
Welcome to this week's slightly spooky news.. |
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 Well, treat obviously and our new fruit machine game is giving out treats like nobody's business. Over on our facebook page lives a very prize happy fruit machine. Just spin it and you could win one of 1000s of very brilliant prizes. Money-off vouchers, gig tickets, free smoothies and an awful lot more. Every spin wins, and what's more you can decide to either keep your prize or gift it to a friend getting you another spin. Selfishness disguised as selflessness. Fiendish. |
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It came from the fruit bowl (and that drawer
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 We're currently giving away alphabet magnets in our kids smoothies and fruit tubes which all include a special glow-in-the-dark magnet. And since Halloween is almost upon us, in the name of spookiness, we're calling on parents and kids across the land to get creating their very own strange and scary fruity freak or veg monster. It's devillishly simple to join in. All you need is some fruit and veg, some innocent magnets and a camera. Make your monster, snap a picture and the first 1,000 that get uploaded to our Flickr site will win a special set of limited edition Halloween 0-9 number magnets which ALL glow in the dark. They're pretty fiendish (the number 5 in particular has been known to cause night terrors). Check out the creations that some budding Frankenstein's have come up with so far here. |
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| The innocent AGM - now a major motion picture |
 Admittedly, this news item is only scary if you're scared of lots of people having quite a nice time. But if that is the case, then prepare to be ruddy terrified. As previously mentioned, we had our annual AGM a few weeks ago, and all the day's action has now been captured in glorious Technicolour for all and sundry to watch. Read all about it here and feel your blood curdle at the sights and sounds of some of our drinkers doing interesting things and having a spot of tea.
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| Be prepared |
As we all know, Monday is the day when all the monsters and terrible things that you think aren't real become real and try to eat your brains. So as a public service, we've put together a small guide on how to protect yourself from some of these creatures.
Vampires: Garlic and crucifixes are tried and tested methods, but in case they've developed a vaccine (which they probably have), we would advise dressing in nothing but beige corduroy. Famously vain creatures, vampires are very conscious of who they bite. They will not be seen undead sucking blood from someone who is not attractive, stylish or sexy. So beige it up and you'll be fine.
Werewolves: Everyone thinks that werewolves want to eat them but actually, they're incredibly down on how they look. Covered in matted hair, with checked shirts and jeans that are always ripped and tatty, it's no wonder they only come out at night. Lend them some new clothes, comb their hair and tell them that with a bit of plucking here and there, they'll look great. Not only will they not eat you, they'll probably become your best friend and eat your enemies instead.
Zombies: The only way to get rid of a zombie is to remove the head or destroy the brain. It isn't pleasant, it gets everywhere, so probably best to just run away. Contrary to what modern day films would have you believe, zombies cannot run. They lumber, slowly, looking for brains to eat. So just jog off, chucking in the odd sprint along the way and you'll be fine.
Ghosts: Hoover them up.
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| And finally... |
 Puppy to dog in 40 seconds
Little Ripper
The genius of Uncle Walt
My first fish
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20th Century Fox on a flute (with thanks to Steve and Smoj)
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| Spookily around Fruit Towers |
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Mysteriously, the posh yoghurt in the fridge keeps disappearing, the pond is full of eerie green sludge, the loo in reception is home to a scary, whistling sound, Kirsty found an eyeball in her pocket, Clare M started receiving Jake's calls, Jake started receiving hers and the office turned pink on Friday.
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| Hat of the week |
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As if all this wasn't spooky enough, allow us to present our Halloween hat of the week. It's the neck bolted horror of a woollen Frankenstein's monster, vs. a cackling fuzzy pumpkin. It's your call, mere mortals.
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This week's spooky Bob of the week is Banjo Bob. Created by the obviously dangerously deranged ktbennet83 for our halloween competition, we're pretty sure it will soon be alive, wandering the streets preying on unsuspecting victims.
 To be honest, that might not be that bad as he has no legs, but mark our words, when he's rolling towards you quite slowly, you'll know the meaning of fear. Know a good Bob? Nominate them at iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk and their face could grace this space.
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| Corner of the week |
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This week's corner is this corner. Look at it, it's horrible. Imagine being there, in the dark, things constantly going 'bump' and being scary. All the things that you fear are probably there, spider's nests, tax returns, axe wielding swamp things.
It has the look of a corner where some bad stuff has gone down and oh boy are we glad we have no idea where it is or how we found a picture of it.
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| Eyes to the sky… |
| If you stay up late right now, you can see Jupiter in the south on a clear night. If you get up early, you can see Mars in the east. If you stay in bed all day, you just get bedsores. |
| Scary monsters, fruity freaks |
 This one's for the kids. It's a competition where you can make the scariest, weirdest, most brain curdling beast imaginable. But you can only use fruit and/or vegetables. The best bit? The first 1,000 entries will receive an exclusive, nevertobemadeagain set of ten spooky number magnets (zero to nine). A proper treat. And it's very very easy to enter – all details right here. |
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| Hat's the one for me |
 But it's not just kids who have all the fun. No way, Gerald. This one's for everyone. We're about to start playing our near legendary Hat Tag game, as part of our beloved Big Knit, which starts shortly. We need volunteers for hat tagging early on – if you're up for it, we'll send you a postcard and a hat ahead of launch, and some secret instructions. Just click here and await further instructions. |
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| The bear, the badger and some carp |
 We like animals. They share the Earth with us, and should we ever colonise Mars or even Jupiter, we would take some with us. Maybe a bear, a badger and some carp. With those three, you'd be OK in any situation. Yes, we like animals so much that we put them on our orange juice labels, and write funny words that they might say (should they be able to talk). If you think you can make them talk funny, why not play out our new Facebook game? We give you the picture, you write what the animal's saying, everyone chuckles, you win a prize. Oh yes. Caption it up right here.
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| Appl' do nicely |
 We've made a little poster about our apple juice and would love to hear what you think of it. It will take about 2.34 seconds to fill in and if you're in luck, you might get a free carafe of juice at the end. Just click here.
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| Friends who do good things |
Parties? You want to go to a party? With a bear? And some free snacks? You should go to this party, with our Bear friends. And books. You like books? Beautiful books? We do too. Our friend Nick Hand wrote one whilst cycling round Britain. We have a copy to give away – all you have to do is check out this blog post and tell us your favourite cake recipe. Easy.
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Word as image
Best packaging ever?
Planet spotting
Best wolf t-shirt ever
Gifts, by Apple
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It's like they never went away
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| Inside Fruit Towers this week |
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Rach harvested/crushed/drank grapes en France, Kirsty revealed that she used to live in Gibraltar, Ben made a sinister banana, Rich agreed to wear Olivia's dress, someone lost a jacket with a purple lining, girls cackled at 7am in the toilets, and Joe played demonic messages over the tannoy.
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As it's starting to feel like winter is definitely on the way, we thought it time to share some real winter warmers. And so we bring you scarf versus mittens. Or are you more of a snood fan? Good, we didn't think so.
 Scarf versus mittens it is then.
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Thanks to Jessica for sending us this. It's a film about a special Bob.
 Know a good Bob?
Nominate them at iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk and their face could grace this space.
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| Corner of the week |
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Have we really never had Amen Corner before? Mildly psychedelic Welsh people, who thought that paradise was half as nice?
Have we honestly never had them before? Shame on us.
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| "Stay hungry. Stay foolish." |
| RIP the late and very great Steve Jobs. |
| Core blimey |
 innocent is now home to a multi-award-winning apple juice. Last week our Douglas was in Madrid for the World Juice Awards (we honestly don't make these up just so we can win stuff) and we're very proud to say that we won not just one but two of the five awards up for grabs. Our appley gongs were for Best New Juice Product for our Apple Juice and Best Packaging for a Juice Product for our whole juice family. Needless to say we're very pleased. Our apple juice now has it's own fridge with a monogrammed door and is going to the MTV music awards with Jessica Alba. |
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| A bushell of winners |
Staying with apple success, last week we ran a competition on our blog to send us your best apple jokes. Some were good, some were great, some made us feel a bit weird. Big congratulations to Stephen P, Christine S, Andrena, Karen, Di, Clive, Rach, Jayne, Sara and Louise. Cases of apple juice winging their way to you very soon. If you want to be appley amused, go and have a read here.
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| Tours well that ends well |
 The Hungry Grassy Van has come to the end of it's 1000 mile tour. We visited London, Bristol, Manchester and Glasgow serving people their 5-a-day with delicious recipes from our new recipe book Hungry?. Along the way we served excited school children, handsome firemen, her majesty's hungriest boys in blue, peckish shoppers, tired joggers and an array of adorable dogs. To see pictures of all of these and more, have a look on our Facebook page. You can also follow us on instagram (search for innocentsmoothies) or by taking a look at them all here.You can see how the whole thing unfolded in glorious technicolour here. Thank you for everyone that popped down to the HGV and keep your eyes peeled for the next innocent tour. |
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| AGM |
 Last Saturday was our fourth annual AGM (A Grown-up Meeting), and very successful it was too. 130 of our drinkers came down to Fruit Towers to tell us what they think about what we do, help us get better, drink tea, and eat cake. Needless to say, a lot of fun was had by all and we found it very useful indeed. To see how the whole thing unfolded, the founders Q&A and what everyone who was here thought of the day, have a look at our instagram feed, the blog, twitter and our Facebook wall. A particular highlight for us was our bespoke town crier's cry by Joe's dad, Alistair. We asked our facebook followers to suggest words for him to build in and challenged him to incorporate 5 of them. He used 50. And it was immense. We're currently putting a business case together for having an in-house town crier.
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| Mo suits mo money |
Our friends at A Suit That Fits have teamed up with the charity Movember and created the ultimate accessory to wear whilst growing an unsightly and weird moustache - a special edition Movember tweed jacket. The hand tailored creation is designed in limited edition Robert Noble Tweed, and comes with a specially designed mo-comb pocket with the iconic Golden Mo embroidered on the left sleeve. £25 from every jacket sold goes to the mens-health charity Movember. So this Movember, if you're going to make your face look awful, you can now compensate by making your torso look lovely.
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| Become one of life's winners |
 Our Facebook page is still fit to burst with fun ways to win great stuff. Head on over for your chance to win fruit filled holidays with your friends to Turkey and Brazil with our Fruit Field Trips competition. Or you could try your hand at our Peel of Fortune game to win one of a whole host of juicy instant prizes. Honestly, if we gave you any more stuff you'd need a van to collect it all, and we'd probably have to give you that as well. Go on, go and have a look. |
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Tough as new boots
Hat of the week
Throwing cup
Movie line rhymes
They don't make them like this anymore
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The Jettisons
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Jeremy got new table tennis bats, everyone jumped on a big pile of bean bags at least 6 times, Rio sent a cockroach to a soldier, Rich contemplated quadruple denim, Joe got a proper shave, Tom found a truncheon, Mav dressed up as a lion and most of the creative team went to a cottage to think about things.
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This week's Bob of the week is Whispering Bob Harris. This softly spoken national treasure served with Her Majesty's police force (as a cadet for a couple of years) and helped found Time Out magazine, before moving to radio and subsequently giving us all the gift of The Old Grey Whistle Test.
 His casual, foot-on-the-speaker style delivery and velvet tones have given birth to many a parody, our particular favourite being this one featuring Richard Ayoade as Bob. May he never be far from our radios, Whispering Bob, you are a hero. Know a good Bob? Want to see their face here? Send us a snap and some chat to iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk |
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We've been struggling a bit with Corner of the week, and upon asking friends for suggestions, a lot of them said "Gambon". After a bit of googling, we discovered that "Gambon" is a tricky to manoeuvre, grassed corner of Top Gear's test track, where Michael Gambon and Jeremy Clarkson live.
As far as we can make out, the odd couple have been living there in a sort of makeshift tent for some time, coming out occasionally only to film Top Gear, star in a movie or to sell tulips (which they grow on an allotment near the track's first straight) at a nearby covered market. The very best of luck to them both.
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| Everything is expanding |
| The universe, Jodie Marsh, the biscuit tin to waist ratio. This week’s news however defies dark matter by being lean, light and not made of biscuits. Hoover it up. |
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Robbie ran reception with an iron fist and Bermuda shirt, Lex from Method came to visit, Aslam pretended to be Gibbo, Tansy made it back from the mountains, Patrick ran in from home and straight to his desk (without breaking stride), Emilie, Ruvan, Katie and George worked the camouflage, Ben hung out with A listers in New York and the first aid dummies got some action.
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This week's Bob of the Week is Emmylou Bob. Emmylou Bob has been nominated three times for Bob of the Week but we have been saving her (and her well groomed ears) for best.
 Emmylou Bob lives in Scotland, has her coat brushed a hundred times before bed and can usually be found down the Nags Head most Friday nights, dueting with Gram Pomeranian. Know a good Bob? Want to see their face here? Send us a snap and some chat to iambob@innocentdrinks.co.uk |
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Corner of the Week is Dead Man's Corner Museum. It's dedicated to the story of American airborne troops who dropped in on the Carantan peninsula in June 1944 and what happened to them.
It also has a cracking gift shop and the uniform of Major Richard Winters (Band of Brothers). So if you’re ever passing Saint Comte Du Mont and fancy a museum detour, make a little space for Dead Man’s Corner in your itinerary.
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