the innocent quiz of the year 2008

Update: This competition is now close and was won by Kirrie. Well done Kirrie.

It's a funny old time between Christmas and New Year isn't it? Kind of like the year's spare days just spacing out Dec 25th and Jan 1st a bit.

If like me you are in a deserted office for the next few days, or just bored at a computer why not have a go at our quiz of the year? The winner will recieve a big box of smoothies to get that health thing back up and running again in January.

It's going to be ridiculously easy for both your sake and mine. I'm not expecting many entries as everyone's down the sales, but that only goes to improve your chances of winning if you think about it.

January

In January 2008 we had an advert on the telly, but who did the voice over?
A: Johnny Ball  B: Johnny Vegas C: Johnny Cash

February

Where did our Andrew go off to in February to help out on an innocent foundation project?

A: Milwaukee B: Malawi C: Milton Keynes

Clue: It rhymes with salami. Kind of.

March

What would you put this down to?

A: Fate B: Deja Vu C: De La Soul

April

How many people came to our first ever AGM in April?

A: 1 B: 100 C: 10,000

Clue: We held the AGM at Fruit Towers not Wembley Arena.

May

What was actually in the jar?

A: Don't ask B: Left over flower water C: Home brew

Clue: It's not A or C.

June

June follows which calendar month in the United Kingdom?

A: May B: December C: September

Clue: Are you kidding me?

July

What recipe was our July smoothie of the month?

A: Chestnuts roasting on an open fire B: Agua on the rocks C: Mangoes, coconuts & lemongrass

August

Who played to a rapturous reception in the Hay Barn of our innocent village fete at 2pm on Sunday 3rd August?

A: Elton John B: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain C: That little one from Britain's Got Talent that did break dancing in the shower.

September

What new product did we launch in September 2008?

A: Vegetable smoothies B: Little tasty veg pots C: Double CD/ Vinyl compilation album of our favourite music

October

Who is this lovely lady?

A: Dr Shilpee our company nutritionist B: Dr Shilpee from BBC's Street Doctor C: Dr Shilpee from your local walk in center

November

What on earth is Joe up to?

A: It's the Big Knit 2008, he's counting little knitted hats B: Don't ask C: It's the Big Knit 2008, he's counting little knitted hats

December

Have you finished the turkey yet?

A: Done and dusted, it's all about the Salmon now B: Pass the cranberry sauce, there's still a couple of sandwiches left in her

Clue: There's no wrong or right answer to this one actually

The rules:

-Leave your answers as a comment on this blog post.

-Closing date is midnight on Dec 31st, but enter before then as you'll probably be busy doing something else at five to twelve on new year's eve.

-One entry per person.

-One winner will be picked at random from all those giving the right answers.

-Or the closest answers if not.

-The box of smoothies can only be delivered within the UK so don't enter if you're abroad (unless you've got friends in the UK you want to donate the prize to).

all I want for Christmas...

...is a vibrating mascara apparently.

Hopefully, your stockings will be filled with much more useful stuff tomorrow morning.

Have a lovely Christmas (and if you do get one of these in your stocking, let us know if it's really worth the dollar).

merry christmas everyone

This blog will resume normal service on 5th January 2009, unless someone sneaks in during the holidays and posts something. It would probably be Ted. He likes that sort of thing.

We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and wish you much luck in 2009.

Love from us all.

hats a wrap

And so the winners of our Big Knit 2008 flickr photo competition, as judged by your good selves last week are (drum role please)...

Most Creative Use Of Hat

Won by jwhittox and his egg warmers.

Best Hat Ensemble

Won by lydslikestea for her totally tropical hats on holiday.

Best Overall Hat Picture

Won by gooseand mont for the strange but true cat foot hat what.

Well done to all the winners, we'll have some flickr messages on the way to each of you very shortly to sort out your prizes.

festive five-a-day

 

From now on I'll be answering the best health and nutrition question you put to me each week via the new healthy stuff part of this website. And to start us off here's a very festive question from Richard JHJ:

"Does the "fruit" in mince pies count towards your 5 a day?"

Oh that's a tough one. To answer this we need to think about what's in a mince pie. Mince pies are filled with currants, raisins, orange and lemon peel, sugar and fat. Technically a tablespoon of dried fruit counts as a portion of fruit. Also fruit and vegetables found in convenience foods such as ready meals and puddings do contribute towards your 5-a-day. However many of these foods contain a lot of salt, added sugars and fat so you should eat them in moderation.

Luckily for me I've never liked mince pies and would much prefer a Christmas clementine which definitely is a healthy portion of fruit.  Just to remind you a portion of fruit is 80g which equates to a handful of berries or an medium sized apple, banana, pear etc. 150 ml of juice also counts as a portion of fruit (but only counts once regardless of how much you drink because of the lack of fibre). Smoothies have at least 80g of whole crushed fruit and 150ml of juice which means they're a great way to get 2 portions of fruit in a tasty convenient way.

The thing I'd really like to know is if cherry liqueur chocolates count (my favourite by the way). Think I may just have to eat this entire box just to make sure I get my 80g.

Just fill out our quick ask Shilpee form if you have any questions of your own and I'll start to answer to best ones each week in the new year.

Bye for now and Merry Christmas.

dr shilps

tie the season to be jolly

Especially if your name is Nick.

Nick is helping us out with some very complicated spreadsheets at the moment (he's privately known as the Excel Ninja) and he also sports a very good range of ties.

Today's tie was bought by his wife, Zsu, on their first trip abroad together to Paris, back in 2002.

 

Just in case you thought Blackpool Council had stopped making 'Kiss Me Quick' hats in favour of silky neckwear.

hats it

Ok so we're running out of hat puns now. But just to tie up all things Big Knit nicely we'd like to let you know the final scores on the doors, which were...

A massive 506,768 little hats knitted (that's over half a million hand made hats, that's a lot of hats).

Meaning at 50p per hat we can give Age Concern a big fat cheque for £253,384.

And if you fancy helping to judge the best little knitted hat photos added to this year's Big Knit flickr group just pick your own favourites here (before Tue 23rd Dec).

lucky dan

Back in March, Dan gave a talk to a group of students over in Paris.

One of them was so impressed with Dan's stage presence that she wrote in to us to tell us just how 'fabulous'  she thought he was.

According to Emily, Dan's presentation was 'very refreshing after all those boring policticians', especially since he wore a 'rather fetching shirt' and gave riveting insights like 'it's very cold in winter...and in fridges'.

Emily requested that everyone in the office give Dan a 'hug/pat/rub of some sort...in an appropriate place' when we next saw him for being so very excellent.

And he liked it so much that we thought we'd extend the opportunity to those of you in need of a bit of luck.

Just rub his belly, make a wish and let the double demin work its magic.

'tis the season

You know it's getting near to Christmas when someone makes a kind of Guy Fawkes xmas tree angel out of an empty smoothie bottle. With yellow pipe cleaner arms and legs, wearing pink boots. And stick on wobbly eyes.

dingle dangle

 

 If you're still stuck for Christmas presents we've just spotted these miniature sized innocent kids drinks ear rings on ebay. Very original.

Note: Although we can't vouch for the legitimacy of external websites and sellers, the maker of these ear rings (mr walker) has sold 27 items on ebay and has 100% positive feeback, which makes him a pretty safe bet in our book.