The winter months are approaching for you where you are in the southern hemisphere? To be clear, you regard June, July and August as cold winter months? That's just such a strange thought to me, being from America; come to think of it, I may have actually never been to the southern hemisphere...

That pie looks super delicious! I'm salivating just looking at the pictures. Great, detailed steps and pictures to let us know if what we're doing even looks right or not. I'll need to see if I can make it sometime!

I've had visitors from abroad who simply fell in love with store bought chicken pot pie, as soon as they tasted it they declared it was their new favorite food. But this looks more rich and healthy, I imagine that they'd just swoon after their first taste of this!

But because pies are so tasty, it just seems like such a waste and shame to throw it in someone's face... At my university, we have a tradition of throwing pies at professors as revenue for their hard tests; but I myself would rather just eat the pies.

Finally, important question; what temperature do you preheat your oven to?