bad day..... good decade

Is it a good or bad thing to be voted the top one-hit-wonder of the decade? On the one hand it means you topped your game before you'd barely started, you're only ever known for that one song, people probably sing it to you everytime they see you on the street, what made you was so good you just can't beat it, and maybe you never will. Bad times. On the other hand, you created a little gem that people love so much they propelled it into the stratesphere, a place all music artists try to get to and most don't ever succeed. Good times. 

This week Daniel Powter's song 'Bad Day' was named as the top one-hit-wonder of the decade by Billboard Magazine. We love that song. Especially the video, remember when the guy drew the umbrella over the girl in the picture to protect her from the rain? Melt.

So what do you think? Did Daniel deserve his accolade?

the best thing about Christmas

Christmas jumpers. Admit it you love them just as much as we do. And here’s a tip for you, if you want to have the best laugh ever then have a christmas jumper party like our friends did last week. It was wrong, wrong, wrong…but oh so right. A few of us had cameras but we had to take an oath of allegiance to the gang never to reveal the photos to anyone, ever. But we couldn’t resist so here you go…heads chopped off to protect identity of course or we’d soon have no friends left.

 

Love this one, much improved by the sewn on Christmas tree decorations of course.

Nice touch adding the festive lights.

Christmas jumper or little house on the prairie…we’re  not so sure.

Breaking the rules here but the tinsel necklace is a nice touch.

Send us on a picture of you in your Christmas jumper to howaya@innocentdrinks.ie if you’re brave enough and we’ll put it up on the blog. And as we wouldn’t expect you to mortify yourself for nothing we’ll send you some innocent goodies for your trouble.

feeling a bit cabbaged?

Everyone feels a bit cabbaged from time to time, maybe you’ve stayed up too late all week watching repeats of x-factor or the apprentice or whatever takes your fancy, maybe you’ve been working really hard and not taking enough afternoon naps, or maybe you decided to get creative with a head of cabbage and sculpt your own face out of raw vegetable? Ammm, weird or wonderful, what do you think?

Feel free to sculpt your own masterpiece from some fruit or vege and send us your photos to howaya@innocentdrinks.ie and if we think it’s a work of art we just might post it on the blog.

the impossible quiz

We found this online a week ago and can’t get enough of it. Have you tried the impossible quiz yet? Be prepared to spend every spare minute you have trying to crack this, we’ve been at it here for about a week and so far the best we can do is no.19…

...then it's game over.

See how far you can get and let us know. It's driving us round the bend.

hello helen

We've got a newbie here at Fruit Towers. Here's a photo of her mug below.

Helen joins our Sales and Marketing Team. Her strengths include halloween costume making, dancing to 80s music, celebrity gossip (her special topic being US stars as opposed to Irish and UK celebs) and spotting the Irish rugby team's bus drive past the Fruit Towers window (see Ali's fantastic paparazzi attempt below).

 

Helen will be manning the much loved Banana Phone and taking calls from all you lovely smoothie drinkers. So if you would like to chat about any of the above topics, or anything else, like Jedward or your favourite breed of dog (Helen's is a Pugland - it's a mix of a Pug and a Westie), then give her a call.

Her first task is to come up with her Fruit Name. Ali's is Fruiteteer because she's a Marketeer....get it? Brendan's is Elder Lemon, but he's not too keen on that one. What do you think Helen's Fruit Name should be? The best suggestion will win something tasty.

It's all over

Our big game of consequences is done and dusted, finito, all over. We asked for young writers and young writers is exactly what we got.

26 days of chin scratching, eye squinting, nail biting, thinking and pondering, story reading and line writing later and we have a fabulously entertaining completed story from each letter of the alphabet. 

A huge big massive well done to everyone who entered, the standard of story-telling was really high. 

All the stories are up on site here if you fancy a good read. Let us know your favorite, we’re still trying to decide…

We still love you bananas

Now don’t get us wrong we LOVE bananas. Remember bananarama? 'it's a cruel, cruel summer, leaving me here on my own...' 'you walk out when I walk in, can't you see the state I'm in?' ....they were the best. And banana boats are pretty cool too...

But there are absolutely NO bananas in our new kiwis, apples and limes smoothie at all. Not even one. Not even a hint of one. And from today we are giving away €1 off vouchers so you can try it for yourself and see. Keep an eye out online for our 'apology' to the poor bananas out there (we still love you we promise), and get a voucher sent straight to your inbox.

Only three days to go...

Only three days left in our Online Game of Consequences. My oh my, how time flies by. We’ve been keeping a close eye on things, on how the stories are going, and we have to say we’re so proud of all the little writers we have here on our Emerald Isle.  

So well done everybody who has entered so far. Not a whole lot of work has been getting done in Fruit Towers in the last few weeks as we’ve been too busy reading all your brilliant story lines. What are we going to do with ourselves next week? 

Only three days left to enter so you'd better be quick. 

What's your hidden talent?

So the other night at a gathering in a friends house I discovered that I had a hidden talent - throwing a winged spear through the air into a wooden board. Yes that's right, darts. Who knew? Not only had I never played before but I was up against some very over-confident very experienced young men (you know who you are), who quickly lost their mojo when I landed two bulls eyes in a row to win the game. I'm still smiling about it three days later. 

So it got me thinking, how many people out there have a hidden talent that they don't know about? Or even better, have a talent they know about but don't want to admit to? I got on the case and asked around, and boy are my mates a talented lot....Sarah admitted to me that she can play the piano perfectly while lying on the ground with her two hands crossed behind her head (how she discovered she could do this I have no idea). Claire is double jointed so she can bend her thumb right back without breaking it (arghhhh), and Mike told me that he can sleep for 24 hours straight without waking (ah, not exactly a talent in most people's books Mike but we'll give it to you).

So come on people, spill the beans, what are your hidden talents? We'll pick our favourite and shower you with innocent goodies.

So long, farewell, cranberries & raspberries goodbye...

Cranberries & raspberries was one of the first recipes we ever made and like a trusted friend, it’s stuck with us through the good times, the bad times and the dodgy haircuts.

Now it’s time to put this recipe out to pasture, bid it a fond farewell and let our other recipes take the limelight.

But there needn't be a smoothie shaped hole in your heart as we have a brand new smoothie 'cranberries, blueberries and cherries'. Not only is it banana free, but it counts as 2-of-your-5-a-day, gives you the goodness of 6 different types of fruit, is tasty, refreshing and totally scrumptious. Look out for it in shops now.