popping around

If you've ever wondered what it's like over here at Fruit Towers but have never had a chance to take us up on our offer to pop around, then have a quick watch of these two clips.

One is by Abi from Hippyshopper and the other by a French TV channel. Both star our Sustainability Jess who's as equally great with cameras as she is at doing ventriloquism in French.

more new faces

A few days ago we chose the 100 people that are coming to our AGM in April.  We've put a few of the faces up on the blog, here and here.  Well, here are a couple more, along with a map of where everyone is travelling from.

There will be an extra slice of cake for Sarah in Glasgow.

Here's Luke.  Luke is from Desborough, and this photo was taken in Sri Lanka where he was on holiday with his girlfriend.  Those are fishermen in the background.

And this is Rebecca (on the left).  Rebecca is a big fan of Harpo Marx, and has already booked her Megabus ticket down to London for the AGM.

they're coming too

Yesterday we featured some of the lucky consumers that are coming along to our AGM.  Well, here are a few more.

First up there's Felix, who creates, writes and performs music, as well as co-running Monsta Squad.  Busy lad.

Then there's Morgana, who has outrageously long hair.

And Lydia, who has never won anything in her life before (not even a tenner on the lottery).

Then we've got Adam.  We're hoping he's going to look a bit different to this on the 26th April.

And finally there's Ruth.  When Ruth isn't day dreaming about Joe Walsh she's busy raising money for The Norbury Manor Jets, so they can buy new pom poms, and hire a famous coach.   

wardrobe malfunctions

The Easter weekend seems to have had a strange effect on what people decided to wear to work today.

On opposite sides of London, Matt and Olly decided to get dressed in the same clothes

Lauren and Erica unwittingly co-ordinated their seasonal yellow ensembles beautifully

And Laura replaced her missing pirate sock with her boyfriend's oh so sensible one instead.

Funny what an excess of egg shaped chocolate can do to your fashion sense.

they're coming to the AGM

This morning we picked the lucky 100 people that are coming to our AGM in April.  Here are some of the chosen few.

 

Steven, who has an unhealthy passion for Jaffa Cakes.  We'll make sure we've got plenty at the AGM for you.

Dora, whose favourite things include dancing in the street and singing loudly out of tune.

Barry, who has been a bit of a fan of innocent for a while now.  We're very glad that he can make it.

Matthew (on the left), who performed at our village fete last year.

And Susan, who has a bonkers Large Musterlander called Lily

We're looking forward to seeing you all soon, and keep on watching this space for more updates.   

alpine lunch

Today, Franz and Jess came to tell us all about Austria, Switzerland and what the team have been up to since we started selling our drinks there back in October.

To get us in the Alpine spirit, they brought along some traditional Austrian delicacies, including lashings of goulash

Some tasty apple strudel

And this brilliant chap, Roman, who can yodel as proficiently as he can play the accordion (whilst balancing a golden bunny).

We got to ask whatever we've always wanted to know about the Alps and then had to politely listen to Franz's story about some village elders trying to trick an old man into telling them something or other before getting our chocolate bunnies (and some more accordian tunes).

Hope you all have a great bank holiday w/e and as they say in the Alps, Frohe Ostern.

the ninja carrot strikes back

You may remember a while ago that we ran a competition for odd shaped fruit and veg and this excellent ninja carrot was one of the three winners

Well, the lady who sent the photo in has only just got back in contact to claim her prize.

Angelika currently lives in Germany and hadn't realised our drinks were now available there. So she very sweetly had asked for her prize of smoothies to be sent to her friends in Ireland instead.

However, our Brigitte in Hamburg was having none of that and a case of our finest smoothies are now winging their way to Angelika and her fiesty carrot.

Angelika also kindly sent another photo of what the carrot has been up to since we last saw it.

We're not quite sure if it's trying to attack the tasty looking sandwich or use it as a getaway vehicle.

But either way, it is clearly not a root vegetable to be messed with.

some video

Mustashrik worked here in our design team last year. He's an illustrator of many talents - check out this video that he's just done for Nizlopi.

fancy doing a duathlon?

Our Fordy is part of a committee organising a duathlon. Fancy joining in? As you can see above, duathlons are a great way of combinbing luminous running shoes with more sombre tones of Lycra, and generally getting fit and looking super hot, as Fordy does above. This is what Fordy says:

"Can you run and ride a bike? (one after the other rather than at the same time)? If your answer is mostly yes then I may have the answer for you:

The inaugural Ful On Dualthon - Saturday 26th April 2008.

It's happening on a test track so there will be no cars to hamper your style. And there's an option of 2 distances:

Standard: 5k run  / 20k bike  / 5k run  OR
Sprint: 2.5k run  / 10k bike  / 2.5k run

Online entry with a bargain price of £22. It's a great first race and you don’t need a super whizzy bike (pretty much anything that works will do). Hope to see you on the start line.

Yours in Lycra

Fordy"

their mums would be ever so proud

Once in a blue moon we like to have a tidy up at Fruit Towers. To make things a bit more interesting we turned it into a competition. Without further ado I give you our winners.

In first place, Rachid.

Judges were particularly impressed with his nifty use of cleaning spray and cloth. Revolutionary stuff, at least round our way. Well done Rachid.

And, representing the IT team, our runner up, Aslam.

Aslam is very dedicated to the cause of desk tidying. So much so he went all the way to the Paris office just to despair at the state of their desks. His dilligence wins him the admiration of all around and a book token. Can't say fairer than that.