There’s an old mill by the stream.....

.....Nellie Dean.

We called at the local water mill this morning as we had seen that a favoured local pie man was selling his wares outside.  He only sells them at his own stall which he sets up at local farmers markets and events and is currently at the mill twice a week.  We’ve had his steak and mushroom pie before so got the chicken and leek today, but he also has pheasant breast (with pheasants from Holkham Hall), turkey, venison and various fruit pies.  We’d intended to look into the mill shop itself which sells stoneground flours milled here but we didn’t really need anything and they have a ‘two people in the shop’ rule so we didn’t go in as they were clearly busy.

There is a dog at the mill which greeted us with a rather muddy tennis ball that he dropped at our feet.  I made the mistake of kicking it away and immediately made a friend for life.