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5th Estate » innocent http://www.fifthestate.co.uk Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:56:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Help cut a daft tax http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2007/04/help-cut-a-daft-tax/ http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2007/04/help-cut-a-daft-tax/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:09:58 +0000 innocent http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/04/help-cut-a-daft-tax/ Some things just aren’t right. Tartan jeans for instance. And the fact that the government charges VAT on healthy fruit juices and smoothies. Seems wrong to us.

Especially when other foods, like hotdogs and chips, remain tax free. Not quite encouraging healthy eating, is it?

That’s why we’ve set up a petition on the Prime Minister’s website to tell the government that they could help more people get to their five a day by removing this daft tax. To sign up go to

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/fruitjuiceVAT/

It only takes 30 seconds to type in your name. And feel free to forward this link on to your friends afterwards.

Thanks for your support.

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Dan Germain’s Secret Weapon http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2007/01/dan-germains-secret-weapon/ http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2007/01/dan-germains-secret-weapon/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:10:18 +0000 innocent http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/01/dan-germains-secret-weapon/ My special book was introduced to me by a man called David a few years ago.

It’s called ‘The Moonlight Chronicles’ and is written by a man called Daniel Price. Subtitled ‘A Wandering Artist’s Journal’ (mainly because that’s what it is), the author writes about the details of his life — trips to the mountains, the first day of summer, hanging out with his kids, mowing the lawn, and he sketches things along the way.

What you’re left with is a sense that life is made up of great moments, both big and small, and the only way to really capture them is to note them down, draw little pictures of them and build a little low-key journal of your life. It’s really beautiful in a lo-fi, slightly untouched by progress kind of way.

I think Mr Price lives a life that we’d all quite like to live — the all-natural version of Jack Kerouac, but with a family and self-built writing shack to come home to. He’s one of the good guys.

Dan Germain of Innocent.

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Fall in love with fifthestate http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2006/09/fall-in-love-with-fifthestate/ http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2006/09/fall-in-love-with-fifthestate/#comments Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:40:59 +0000 innocent http://fifthestate.co.uk/2006/09/fall-in-love-with-fifthestate/ Raspberry and roses

What you need:

  • 2 apples
  • 1 orange
  • 1 punnet of raspberries
  • ½ a banana
  • 1 dessertspoon of rose water (or one teaspoon of rose syrup if you can get it)

What to do:

Cut the apple into wedges, put them through the juicer and pour the juice into a blender. Squeeze the juice from the orange. Add the orange juice to the blender, along with the raspberries, banana and rose water/syrup. Whizz. Drink. Fall in love. 2 servings.

(We got our Le Jardin d’Elen rose syrup from la Fromagerie, a posh London cheese shop. But you can get rose water in supermarkets, in the aisle with the glace cherries and baking ingredients.)

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