Traditional style tattoo of an acorn with pink and white flowers and green leaves on the inner wrist, with other tattoos visible above.

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Acorn and flowers on a wrist

Traditional · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A brown and green acorn with dotted shading sits at the centre of the image, with a pink five-petalled flower and a white flower with yellow centres beside it. Green leaves are outlined in black and the design uses bold black outlines with solid, flat colour. The tattoo sits on the wrist and forearm, with partial tattoos of a red flower and a black and gold curved shape at the top edge.

Traditional Forearm Acorn Flower Leaf

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody in the village believed Tom Garside when he said the oak on the pass had come from a single nut his grandmother dropped in 1947. They laughed in the Fleece and said the thing was a hedge with ambitions. But Tom had the tin to prove it: a dented syrup tin, its lid gone soft with handling, full of acorns he'd gathered each October and never planted.

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The trouble started in March, when the lambs came early and the wind came down off the moor with snow in it. His sister Ruth had sold the last of the ewes and wanted the tin thrown on the bonfire with the rotten fence posts. "It's rubbish, Tom. Seeds that never came to anything." He didn't argue. He put the tin in his coat and walked up the track past the broken wall, where a jay sat on the coping and watched him with its blue flash folded tight.

He pressed the acorns into the thin soil under the wall one at a time, with his thumb, the way his grandmother had shown him before her hands went stiff. The jay came down to the stones and took the last two while he worked, and he let it. Tom said afterwards that a jay is only doing what the oak wants, carrying what it can't carry itself.

In August a green shoot came up beside the wall, no taller than a matchstick, with two leaves like the ones on the blue-and-white china in the dresser. Ruth came up the track that evening with a spade over her shoulder and her face set hard. She didn't say a word. She knelt in the grass, packed the soil around the stem with the flat of her palm, and stayed there until the light went off the pass.