I was thrilled to be chosen to judge the children’s vegetable monster competition at Southfields Harvest, a local community event celebrating autumn. Here are some of the entries – it’s amazing what you can do with a celeriac and a runner bean. The winner is shown bottom right – extra points for the ‘crime scene’ style passion fruit pulp that the monster is sitting in. The patty pans make marvellous and terrifying eyes too.

The event also involved a knit-in – I knitted a radish to get into the spirit of things, and enjoyed sitting stitching on the day with local friends old and new.