fried green tomatoes?

or green tomato chutney?

what shall I make with this year's tomato crop?
hmmm.... it's not quite as successful as I'd hoped.

(for scale purposes, the coaster is slightly bigger than 10cm/ 4ins sq !)

I think I'll not bother growing tomatoes next year, my garden is too cold to have them outside, and I haven't got space for a greenhouse. I'll stick to potatoes, raspberries, runner beans and apples instead.

I'm having more success with Jennifer's Eton hat, thankfully, there's only one more pattern repeat and the crown shaping to do. Then I'm going to make her some fingerless mitts in the same khaki baby cashmerino and decorate them with the same beads.

I really need to make myself some more gloves too, the chillier weather is getting to my fingertips. But I feel like I'm being drawn to making myself some more socks. I was flicking through some Cookie a patterns yesterday and I had a terrible craving for some new socks!

The football has been mixed this weekend, the big teams not giving their usual performances: Arsenal were beaten 3-2 by West Brom at the Emirates, Chelsea were beaten 1-0 by Man City . Today Man Utd drew 2-2 today with Bolton and Newcastle lost at home 2-1 to Stoke.
It seems like almost anything can happen. And yesterday at Anfield anything did!

Sunderland drew 2-2 with Liverpool, scoring our first goals at Anfield in years! But it as one of those games full of incident- Liverpool had one goal disallowed, should've had the next goal disallowed for assuming the ball was in play when it wasn't, gave away a penalty which was fair, but a worse situation was not seen as a penalty and didn't have Gerrard sent off for an elbow in Danny Welbeck's face. Ref, we wuz robbed! It could've been 3-1 to us. However, if we'd been told beforehand we would get a point, we probably would have taken it.

Looks like my Eton cap has been the most successful thing this weekend. Result!

( I'll see how the revamped blog goes before I decide if it's a success or not.)