friday predictions

The weekend will start at 6pm sharp today.

It might rain this afternoon. It might not.

Tomorrow will definitely be Saturday.

And Mike of London, it's time to sell those cufflinks.

love from liverpool

Nick's just ridden through Liverpool

 

You can see his most recent soundshow of his cycle ride here

on the future

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.

free smoothie today

If you buy this today (Friday 26th June 2009).

  

Go to this page.

 

And then follow the message here.

You'll find a free coupon for one our smoothies, valid til Sunday (plus another 50p off voucher valid til next week).

Happy Friday indeed.

DIY watering can

Found this handy tip in my brother's magazine the other day for recycling old bottles to make your own watering can

 

I didn't have an empty milk carton handy but it seems to work just as well with an empty smoothie bottle.

Just pierce a few holes in the lid

 

Fill with water and shake viorously over your plants (or hanging baskets that still need to be hung).

 

Then place with the rest of your gardening gear for safekeeping

Alternatively, you could just fill an empty bottle and pour the water straight on.

But then you'd lose that all important sprinkler effect/satisfaction of making your own gardening equipment.

ferrero rocher off

Mid afternoon slump? Lagging behind with that logistics performance report? Family size falafel with extra pickles for lunch? In need of a solution?

Why not try and breaking a world record in nutty chocolate ball consumption.

 

The current world record to beat for the most Ferrero Rocher eaten in a minute is 7 (the chap off Britain's Got Talent only managed 4)

All you need for this record attempt is an ambassdaor size box of said chocolate, 6 willing volunteers and glasses of milk on hand.

Firstly, make sure you have the correct number of knobbly chocolate balls infront of you.

And then for the next 60 seconds, employ one of the following methods:

The 'one-at-a-time' approach

 

The 'cram-them-all-in-and-chew-like-the-wind' technique

 

Or simply the 'gobble/inhale/get-them-down-you-any-way-you-can' method.

 

Richard managed to polish off 8

 

But unfortunately no one from the World Records Board was there to witness.

Noted for next time.

His excellency should be pleased though.

interesting fact for a thursday afternoon

Wombat poo is cube shaped.

 Something to do with them not rolling off logs apparently.

(The droppings that is. Not the wombats.)

coc up

   

We have a little apology to make about our new special guest smoothie. 

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. 

Chuckle while you can.

pizza the action

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.

 

Instant pizza satisfaction for €10 euros.

on the way to work this morning

I saw

 

A man watching another man move lots of orange bags

 

Someone drying their jeans at a bus stop

An advert for burglars

 

And a new way to sell rugs/keep your BMW warm.

Maybe it's time to find a new cycle route to work.