Mistress Lloyd's Fancy.... 

Charles Causley and George Lloyd - and Nancy

In 1956, Cornish poet Charles Causley and Cornish composer George Lloyd were commissioned by the BBC to make an opera,

The Burning Boy. The poet and composer dined and worked on the piece together at Ryewater.

Causley was clearly enamoured of Nancy’s skill with the icing sugar and wrote her a poem:

Mistress Lloyd's Fancy.

Here is how it happened...