I tried it once - never again! As you said, it takes ages and turns out rubbish. My Granny used to make it, apparently, but I have no clear memories of it, so she couldn't have done so in the last, oh, fifty years. And I can't ask her any longer... So no, I simply bought the ready made. chilled puff pasty in the next best Auchan. Don't like the chilled one, it never gets rolled out properly.

I have vague memories having watched Due South, but basically just because of the red uniform. I read some random fanfic later, but nothing I would really liked (it was mostly blatant pr0n, and I didn't know the original enough to be interested).