all white now

Last Monday, we promised to update you on the whiteness of Andrew's new shoes after a week of him wearing them in.

 

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.

freezie squeezie

It's hot outside so Eleanor had the genius idea of making home made ice pops.

Ladies and Gentlemen we proudly present the Frozen Squeezie.

Step one: Take Squeezie.

Step two: Put in freezer.

Step three: (this is the tricky part) Wait a little.

Step four: Enjoy - as demonstrated here by Ed G

Tasty.

The good news is it couldn't be easier to join in at home, especially as they're on a special £1 offer down at Tescos this very minute.

(the squeezies that is, not Ed G)

a musical odyssey

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.

Ye-ha.

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.

the innocent portion-o-meter

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.

Dave and his portion-o-meter.

long distance nick

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.

casting our net far and wide

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.

making words and pictures

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.

Yesterday our labels looked like this.

Today they look like this.

Tomorrow we might start colouring in.

monday's shoes

Are still quite white

 

We'll let you know whether Andrew's new shoes are still as eye wateringly shiny on Friday