Does a Smoothie Need a Hat & Other Random Things For Charity

Whilst on a wander in Sainsburys the other day, I noticed that the Innocent Smoothies appeared to be wearing hats....little knitted hats! I had a nose and read the labels and realised that it was all for charity. Innocent have asked people to knit little hats for their smoothies, and then 25p from each bottle goes to Age UK to help older people keep well and warm this winter. Lovely, but very random! http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/bigknit

The little bottles do look very comical though, and very cosy, although it does seem sad to keep them in the fridge and then give them hats, it would seem fairer to let them be cosying in together around a nice warm fire, still in their little hats!

This has made me think about all the other people I have seen collecting for charity this time of year. There are always the charity 'muggers' around all the time, trying to get you to sign up to sponsor certain charities  but this time of year there seem to be people everywhere collecting, outside the tube, outside supermarkets, around shopping centres, they seem to be popping up everywhere. Now most of the collectors I've seen this time of year seem to be dressed as Santa but a very very pathetic poor attempt at Father Christmas. I don't think one of them has had a beard and not all of them have had hats.

The worst one I saw yesterday was outside Peter Jones in Sloane Square who had some dodgy looking red trousers, and an open Father Christmas jacket, with his North Face puffa jacket clearly sticking out underneath! Rubbish! He looked like he was half asleep and had only just managed to drag himself out of his pyjamas to come and collect money! The man himself was very lively and I'm sure was doing a good job but it was just such a terrible effort with the fancy dress! You kind of think that if you're going to go out dressed as Father Christmas you're at least going to do it properly! Like the smoothies!!