Fine line cursive script reading C'est la vie across the upper back, just below the nape of the neck, on a person with dark hair tied up.

C'est la vie script across the upper back

Fine line · Back · Black and grey · Photo

The photograph shows the back of a person's neck and upper back, with dark hair pulled up. The words C'est la vie are written in thin, flowing cursive script in a single dark ink. The tattoo sits centrally below the neck on a soft, neutral background, and the lighting is even.

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Dear Odile, the lambing shed is finally quiet, so I am writing this on the upturned crate by the stove with my boots still steaming. Mr Pryce's ewes have dropped twins in every corner of the field, and the one with the torn ear keeps walking into the gate. You would laugh at me. I have learned to stand very still and let her decide.

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The frost took the last of the windfalls on Tuesday, and the well froze solid overnight, so I have been carrying buckets from the trough like a fishwife. The bank man came the same morning in his pale grey gloves with a sheaf of papers. I signed where he pointed. Father always said a signature is only ink until you mean it, and I suppose I meant it, because the orchard is no longer ours and the apple trees will go to someone who has never tasted them.

You wrote c'est la vie at the bottom of your last letter, as if it were a shrug you could post. I have been turning it over since. Here it is not a shrug. It is what you say when the hens still need feeding and the sky is the colour of pewter and there is nothing to be done but go out in the dark with the lantern.

Come in spring if you can. I will keep the bottom meadow for you, and the gate will be mended by then, c'est la vie or no.