A new pie this week: Millers of Dorset, established 1937 – where do we keep finding them? Somerfield this week, reduced to a pound a pie, down from £1.49! Before we could munch said bargains, the pre-pie yomp had to be completed. 14 of us set off northwards from the church car park at West Somerton and bearing right reached Winterton Ness and
Bishy-barney-bee beach! They were crawling all over the sand. Strolling south-east down the coast with many beautiful dogs enjoying the sand and sea, we paused to eat our sandwiches in the dunes, while some elected to go for a swim first and caught site of a seal swimming near to land. Bishy-barney-bees were not the only uninvited guests to our picnic - hundreds of
hoverflies had joined them too.
Retreating from the beach at Winterton-on-Sea, we sort sanctuary at the
Fishermans Return and pints of Wherry and
Winter's Revenge.
Following footpaths east, we came upon a garden where a lady was
taking a bath – a work of art that was one of many, including a
tin can sculpture that Don appreciated.
Returning to the church of
St. Mary, we crossed grass fields with scores of rabbits, all hossing to shelter, when they spotted us. The church was closed due to ongoing refurbishment. The scratch dial, previously photographed was still there, beneath a window. Tea and nairn’s mini oatcakes with Tapenade and supreme taramasalata started this week’s
feast. The rather dull looking pies were then cut, releasing no aroma. The pies had a smooth pale pink filling that looked like luncheon meat with no jelly. The tasting proved worse than the aesthetic, the pastry being lardy and the filling worse than tasteless – mustard could not rescue this pie. Surprisingly, some munchers did not find it so bad and it scraped in with a score of 3.95833 with a standard deviation of 0.63246. Thankfully there were better flavours to consume: Chocolate and Cherries, Maple syrup & pecan galettes and shortbread! So a normalised score of 4 for Millers of Dorset.
A new pie this week: Millers of Dorset, established 1937 – where do we keep finding them? Somerfield this week, reduced to a pound a pie, down from £1.49! Before we could munch said bargains, the pre-pie yomp had to be completed. 14 of us set off northwards from the church car park at West Somerton and bearing right reached Winterton Ness and Bishy-barney-bee beach! They were crawling all over the sand. Strolling south-east down the coast with many beautiful dogs enjoying the sand and sea, we paused to eat our sandwiches in the dunes, while some elected to go for a swim first and caught site of a seal swimming near to land. Bishy-barney-bees were not the only uninvited guests to our picnic - hundreds of hoverflies had joined them too. Retreating from the beach at Winterton-on-Sea, we sort sanctuary at the Fishermans Return and pints of Wherry and Winter's Revenge.
Following footpaths east, we came upon a garden where a lady was taking a bath – a work of art that was one of many, including a tin can sculpture that Don appreciated. 
Returning to the church of St. Mary, we crossed grass fields with scores of rabbits, all hossing to shelter, when they spotted us. The church was closed due to ongoing refurbishment. The scratch dial, previously photographed was still there, beneath a window. Tea and nairn’s mini oatcakes with Tapenade and supreme taramasalata started this week’s feast. The rather dull looking pies were then cut, releasing no aroma. The pies had a smooth pale pink filling that looked like luncheon meat with no jelly. The tasting proved worse than the aesthetic, the pastry being lardy and the filling worse than tasteless – mustard could not rescue this pie. Surprisingly, some munchers did not find it so bad and it scraped in with a score of 3.95833 with a standard deviation of 0.63246. Thankfully there were better flavours to consume: Chocolate and Cherries, Maple syrup & pecan galettes and shortbread! So a normalised score of 4 for Millers of Dorset.
