desk awareness skills

Today we tested Joe's desk awareness skills, by replacing his gigantic chocolate Santa with a much smaller version.

The test concluded that Joe's desk awareness was poor. So poor in fact, that it took him seeing this blog to notice what we'd done.

rich and the dragon, part 2

Last night on BBC2, our Rich was put through his paces by Peter Jones, the dragon with the stripiest socks we've ever seen, on Peter's new show: How We Made Our Millions.

If you missed it and would like a nose around Fruit Towers and an insight in to how Rich, Jon and Adam run things (sometimes even with matching wardrobes), take a look on BBC iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b0175q02/

We hope you like it - please do let us know what you think

richard and the dragon

Earlier this year, Rich bravely opened up his heart, soul and office to Peter Jones, the very shrewd (and very tall) dragon, for a brand new show called How We Made Our Millions.

It's all about Peter getting to know entrepreneurs, finding out what makes them tick, what drives them to be successful, and how organised their stationary cupboard really is.

Peter popped in to Fruit Towers to have a nose around, chat to the people who work here, and get a better understanding of why Rich (and Jon and Adam) run things the way they do.

He also brought his camera mates along and you can see Dan's yellow outfit, Rich giving a dragon fashion tips and Peter being a little bit scared of Oli's ankles on Wednesday night at 9pm on BBC2.

And if you've ever wanted to ask Rich a question, just post it our Facebook wall (www.facebook.com/innocent.drinks) as he's going to be answering them all straight after the show.

cucumber and marmite

When feeling a bit peckish, Clemmie prepares herself a nice plate of cucumber and Marmite. We must admit, it seemed like a funny combination, but after giving it a try we changed our minds.

Clemmie prepares her cucumber

She gets some Marmite

Puts a big dollop on the side of her plate

And drizzles it all over her cucumber slices

Give it a try, and let us know what you think.

purplexing stuff

We were in a meeting with Joe this morning and we noticed a theme.

Can you guess what it is yet?

this and that - a week in the life of the creative team

This week has been big. We've heard about a chimp in a hot tub, met a celebrity, experienced a natural phenomenon, been wooed and had a lookalike revelation.

1st up: Dan got Tansy some flowers for her birthday, but, worried this would cause anarchy and jealous rifts in the team, placated us with a rose each. Although a week in creative corner in a latte cup has taken its toll.

Next up a celebrity talking "extra naked". At the 1st Brains for Breakfast Louis Theroux enilightened us with Nietzsche quotes, shocked us with poo-throwing stories, spiced our day up with Chippendale based philosophies and wowed us with a pretty marvelous talk. (All before 10am) 

3rd: Dan undid his diet. He ate all this pizza. Alone. No one else had any. At all. Not even one slice. Well except these two, who got in there quick.

 

All we got was this tiny mushroom. Which we had to share. Kinda undid all that flower buying.

Just one more thing before we go...

Designers Seb and Lewis?

Or is it Frodo and Samwise?

Over and out. Have a great weekend one and all. 

 

Freddie for a day

Here we have Janel and Caroline literally 'rocking' moustaches for a day. It's all in aid of our 'Freddie for a Day' lunch to help raise money for The Mercury Phoenix Trust which helps AIDS charities.

Lunch costs £3 and everyone going will receive:
 a) 1 x complimentary Freddy moustache
 b) 1 x pilgrimage to Freddie's grave (which happens to be over the road from Fruit Towers)
 c) 1 x lunch fit for a Queen in the chill out!

More photos to follow...

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Brains for Breakfast

Brains for breakfast is an innocent enterprise that will bring a brilliant creative brain to Fruit Towers every month to teach us things.

Early in the morning, and over a bit of breakfast, our monthly speaker will share their knowledge, stories and advice with 35 hungry people who come along.

In our experience, listening to great people helps us do great stuff, that’s why Brains for Breakfast exists. To give us and 35 members of the public the chance to learn from creative people we admire. And to have bacon sandwiches at work.

We're very excited about our first ever Brains for Breakfast speaker.

Louis Theroux is a documentary maker of note, and general all round interesting man. Louis is going to tell us why he does what he does, how he got started, and where he gets his ideas from. He may well even tell us what his favourite breakfast is.

When: Wednesday 14th September, 2011 - 8.30am - 10.00am (GMT)

Where: Fruit Towers, 342 Ladbroke Grove, London, W10 5BU

And here's a useful map in cast you get lost
(The entry gate is on Kensal Road. Just in case you thought you had to scale the fence.)

Tickets for the talk are £5 and you can get yours right here...