Remember sitting on the grass sipping home-made lemonade and tucking into a slice of Victoria sponge on a warm summer's day? Remember trying to guess the weight of that huge marrow? We bet you can even remember the brass band playing in the background.
Summer, say the team behind Innocent smoothies, just wouldn't be the same without a fête on the village green. So this year, they've decided to hold a series of local fêtes around the country, in place of their usual festival-style Fruitstock festival, with the aim of 'bringing a bit of the countryside to the city. In the style of traditional fêtes, there'll be farmers' markets, home-made cake stands, welly-wanging, coconut shies, Morris dancing and fancy dress.
The village fêtes will tour the country in June and July and with 'flagship events' in Regents Park on 4th and 5th August. Visit Innocent's homepage for details on fêtes near you.
Smoothies always have this really green image, but are they really that eco-friendly? Shipping all those mangoes around the world? I think I read that a packet of hula hoops (or similar) had a much lower carbon footprint that a smoothie, but I'd be interested (and happy) to be told that's wrong.