Ever wondered what the future will look like? Well it's going to be domestic bliss by the look of it, with Japanese robots that lovingly make you a cup of fresh coffee.
And floor bound UFO things that eat up your split baguettes.
Start to think about about selling your shares in Starbucks and Dyson now.
Unfortunately, Andrew didn't come to work on Friday (he was off queuing for Wimbledon tickets with his dad from 4am or something) so that shoe update pleasure was denied.
For everyone who dutifully logged back in on Friday, eager for a peek at how said shoes were doing, here's how they're looking today.
Not bad considering they've been subjected to grass stains, pigeon poo and falafel juice.
I went off to the D&AD new blood show last night for a bit of creative inspiration from the next generation of young creative go-getters. It was great to see some of the students working on self initiated briefs for innocent (unfortunately I didn't have a camera so can't share their work with you). But here is my own highlight of the show by the very talented Eleanor Stewart from Glasgow School of Art. Well worth a watch.
The highly observant of you may have noticed a flat screen TV with a green apple and red pepper on it in the background of our AGM films.
This is in fact our 'innnocent portion-o-meter' that shows how many individual portions of fruit and veg we have sold in a day at any one point in time.
It was invented by our Dave from IT who's good with numbers and codes and things. Thanks Dave. And well done Britain, you've already enjoyed over a million fruit portions via our smoothies today and it's not even gone six o'clock yet.
Do you live on the coast? Know any nice places to eat or a man who crafts fiddles or makes surfboards for a living?
Then Nick would like to know.
Nick is the chap responsible for most of the photos in howies' catalogues and for the next 3 months, he'll be cycling the 5000 mile or so bikeride clockwise round the coast of Britain.
As well as raising money for charity, he's also going to be making little films about the artisan types who live and work along the coast to post here.
So if you know of anywhere along the coast that has:
Nice places to stay (with or without tent
Interesting craftsmen who like a chat
Good cafes (with cake and strong coffee)
Free hot showers/sofas to sleep on
Or if you fancy cycling a bit of the way with Nick (or just meeting him for a mid morning coffee break) simply post your comments below or contact Nick here.
He's going to be popping in to see at Fruit Towers in August (slight detour from the coast so he can catch Wilco) so we'll update you on his progress (and saddle sore) then.
You might remember our AGM, we went on about it a bit a while ago. Well, along with adding all the video footage we filmed on the day to the AGM bit of our website we've just created a brand new iTunes AGM podcast for all of the videos to live.
So if you fancy downloading the full 2009 Q&A session, any individual questions or an overview of the whole day (set to an uplifting beat) onto your brand new iPhone to watch on the bus in the morning, go hear.
We're working on our next set of labels at the moment.
There's quite a lot of tea, toast and tabloids involved in the creative process (mainly by Ben W) not to mention copious post-it notes, bulldog clips and special pens, but slowly, we're getting there.
Ink. Skin. Needle. It's a pretty big (not to mention painful) commitment.
Maybe you've thought in the past about getting 'Mother' tattooed on your bicep. Or Wendy perhaps. No? Not even a little bit? Don't you just envy those rock stars with their gloriously ink laden bodies?
Well, one rockstar up in Scotland (by name of Martin) has gone and got his very own innocent tattoo.
Our new summer veg pot hits the shelves this week and to celebrate its arrival, we're thought we'd have a little competition to help you dine al fresco by your tent this summer.
We've got 3 sets of camping stoves, pots, pans and a whole box of our new summery recipe to give away to the three best camping stories we get.
Post your entries below as a comment by Monday 15th June and let burnt-baked-bean-instant-noodle surprise be a thing of Brownie Camp past.
This competition is now closed. Well done to Adam, Natalie and Nia. Camping stoves on their way to you very soon. Meantime campers, remember to always pitch your tent on the leeward side of a west facing slope on Wednesdays.
Atha, Siobhan and Sustainability Jess have just come back from a mango sourcing trip to India and they brought some back for us all to try.
The mangoes we use in our smoothies are called Alphonso mangoes (after a chap called Alphonso De Albuquerque who used to buy loads of them whenever he was in Goa). We use them for their velvety texture, delicate aroma and extremely fragrant taste. You don't tend to find them in the supermarket that often as their skin is very delicate but you can occasionally find them in little shops. If you're lucky.
According to Siobhan, once you've tasted an Alphonso, you can never go back.
To other mangoes that is.
Not to work/your desk/that report you're meant to have finished yesterday.
The mangoes are spot on, the lemongrass too, but there's been a small hitch with the coconuts. They snuck past our proofreaders and lost an 'o' from where we can assure you was not a planned spot. This limited edition of this special guest is out there for two weeks only, when we hope that our coconut milk will return to pure innocence.
Helen, Charlie H and Andy went to visit Andy's mum and dad in France recently and spotted the latest in hot food on-the-go technology: a pizza vending machine.
Simply select your topping (bolognaise)
Get Andy to pay
Wait three minutes
Remove pizza
Try not to burn your fingers
Carefully inspect for artisanal baking quality
Split fairly
And then bask in a dough filled, melty cheese haze.
Di came along to our AGM the other week and after seeing how partial we all are to a bit of cake, she very kindly sent us some of her Suffolk rusks in the post.
They taste lovely warmed up with some butter and some jam (according to Kat H).
Jim (or Fit Jim as he is known to the ladies of Fruit Towers) has made an excellent little film all about our second AGM that we held a couple of weeks ago.
Cake, questions, a bike called Sherbert - it's all captured right here, in full technicolour video format, for your viewing pleasure. Please enjoy.
(Sadly there are no close ups of Jim. He's a professional/modest sort of chap like that)
OK it's now the second of June so we're a day late for all that pinch punch first of the month business. But here's May's winner of our rate and review prize, awarded to the person who leaves the most insightful and useful review on any of the things we make each month.
This month it goes to Stephen from Sussex who suggested our new book would be great for the reading lists in business schools. We thought this was a great idea so have been getting in contact with lots of business schools to tell them all about our new book and what students can learn from electric baths (page 10).
We're back on the telly again tonight, with a new advert starring our smoothies. If you're watching Emmerdale, The Simpsons or Time Team this evening look out for us. We'll be the ones on the grass in the park. And if you can't wait that long, here's a sneak preview.
Worm juice, pulley systems and routine spotlight checks were all tried and tested. But in the end, Nature reigned supreme.
Mr. Ed did nothing to his plants except water them everyday and use pencils instead of canes to make sure they grew nice and straight.
His technique was so successful that some of his crop had to be rehomed in the garden as he couldn't get to his computer.
Ed, IT Sam and Aslam then all shared in the first of the chilli bounty. Just to prove they could.
And apparently it was the hottest thing Ed had ever eaten.
But then, being the Chilli King, he would say that.
And after instigating what can only be described as capsicum sabotage throughout Fruit Towers, Anthony completed his marathon in 4 hours 29 mins and raised £1550 for charity (despite having flu the week before).
ted at innocent on an innocent & investment Q&A
Eoghan M on an innocent & investment Q&A
Matticus on freezie squeezie
Hannah on a musical odyssey
Kim on long distance nick
Lynda Howard on long distance nick
Ange on the innocent portion-o-meter
Raindance.TV on big lunch
Paul Morris on free smoothie today