It seems as though Vegetables don’t make you brighter after all! Well that’s all I can assume based on the latest story coming out of America which centres around Starbucks new healthy juice and organic food outlets.

Unfortunately as you can see below someone somewhere managed to miss an epic spelling mistake on one of their primary display boards… can you spot it?

The juice bar in question was their first Evolution Fresh juice bar in Washington. The error was pointed out by bloggers when it was received in promotional material sent out by Starbucks.

I’ll bet someone got a kicking for that one, though it does seem to have landed them with an awful lot of free press…..

Hopefully by now most people realise the important role that bees (and many other insects for that matter) play in our every day lives.  It may suprise you however to know just how big a role they do actually play.  In the UK alone bees help to pollinate commercially grown crops with an economic value of hundreds of millions of pounds every year.  This doesn’t even take into account the countless allotments, gardens and window boxes that they visit around towns and cities.

Put simply these little stripey fellas are essential to our lives and your family’s food, be it shop bought cornflakes or your home grown tomatoes.

There are many ways that you can do your bit to support bees in your area:

1.  Plant bee friendly plants and shrubs where you can and use insect friendly products (ie fertilisers etc).

2.  Buy honey from your local beekeeper – this has the added benefit of possibly helping if you suffer from certain types of hayfever.

3. Support the many different charities and causes that help bees, from the Bumblebee to the Mason Bee.

4. Learn about bees and insects in your area and teach your children about them, just enjoy watching them do their thing in the garden.

5. You could even become a beekeeper yourself and take one of the many courses around the country to learn how to do it.

This is obviously not an exhaustive list, but hopefully its enough to get you thinking.

Our friends over at LoveBees.co.uk have created a site that hopes to celebrate the bee and make people appreciate all the good work that they do.  They are building information sections that should help you to learn about different species of bee, how to spot them and things you can do to help.  They also have an innovative “Love Wall” where you can post your appreciation of why bees are important to you.

Here are a few of the many examples on the site:

“Im Alergic to bees so have to be careful but I do love honey!! Help the Bees!”
Paul

“Because with them Burts Bees wouldnt exist!”
Hannah

“Because I love Honey!”
Jim

Their site can be found at www.LoveBees.co.uk – Support them by adding a bee Twibbon to your Twitter picture by clicking on the widget below:

I decided this week to give Graze a go after lots of my friends raved about them.  For those who don’t know Graze offer a service that mails you tasty, healthy treats each week.  It costs just £3.49 a box including the postage and packing.

If you know anyone who uses the service then ask them for a code, otherwise you can use this one J483NRCA and you will get 1 box free and the next half price, with no tie ins!

This is what they look like:

I have these delivered to me at my day job and it really is a treat!  They are adding new treats all the time which can be viewed here – http://www.graze.com/products

I’d really recommend trying them – the olives are simply to die for! http://www.graze.com.

Now, where was I…….

Here’s an interesting one I have just stumbled across, apparently an old lady in Stockbridge had £60 stolen by a man disguised as a salad filler!

The ridiculous image was justified by someone official who said”while the hair on this image may not be of the best quality, it takes nothing from the overall clarity of the facial features”.

Hopefully the (lettuce) man will be caught soon!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-11380834