SQUARING THE CIRCLE

omantic notions of life with a windmill in the back garden soon faded when Clare took up residence in the old miller’s cottage in 2004. The mill in question had had a hard life since retiring from full-time service in the late 1930s, as Clare explains: ‘It really was a sorry sight. It had lost its sweeps – that’s what they’re called round here, not sails as they’re known up north – and had been boarded up to protect it from further weather damage.’ Before that it had been turned into a workshop and garage,