Richard Bell's nature sketchbook since 1998
It’s a change to draw a duck that doesn’t need an an animated bill like the cartoon characters that I’ve been drawing recently, although as I drew I was listening to the great Yorkshire accent of one of the customers at the cafe who was giving a blow-by-blow account of his team’s weekend football match and thinking that he’d be perfect for one of my ducks.
In Old English, ‘tōta’ was a look-out post, which is appropriate for the hamlet of Totties, perched on the hill overlooking New Mill.
Christ Church, New Mill, built in 1830 was designed in gothic revival style by Peter Atkinson.
Drawn, during our latte and scone break, from Totties Garden Centre, one of two garden centres in the village.