Businesses are born out of all sorts of motivations.

There’s the desire to use a skill you’ve trained darned hard to achieve; the knowledge you have a ground-breaking concept that the world really and truly needs; or, let’s face it, pure and unadulterated, cold hard cash.

And then there are the more quirky – the ones where you find yourself asking ‘what on earth made them think that was a good idea’?

If you’d seen Natalie Roberts and her husband Steve only a year or so ago, you might indeed have been asking that very question of them.

After all, this is a couple who came to Suffolk on an overnight stay for a Christmas Market, and pretty much walked away with the keys to a dilapidated windmill that hadn’t been touched in almost a century.